masks

There is a purpose for the masks.  Our back yard fence needs to be replaced and I don't want just any old fence, I want a custom fence so I decided to buy a bunch of exterior doors (17 to be exact) and make a fence out of them.  Each door will be custom painted and a few of them will have the masks hanging from them.  I see the door fence as a giant blank canvas that I get to fill!!

First I drew the masks onto manila folders.  Then I made copies of these, taped them together where necessary and cut out the parts to use as a pattern to cut out the clay.

 Made design decisions as to what colors went where and marked the underglaze numbers onto the pattern for reference.

 Cut out the face pieces and put underglaze on everything.

 textured the background for the first mask

 Face parts in place

 Mask #2

 Mask number one finished and ready for the kiln

 Mask number 2 ready for the kiln

 background color and texture for mask #3

 Mask #3 ready for the kiln

 Mask #4 ready for the kiln

this should have been before the other picture of mask #4.

our future food

Eggplant

                                                               Tomato

                                                                          chives

                                                                         Sage

                                                                          peppers

photo shoot!

Scott and Michelle gave us a photo shoot for my birthday.  Such fun!!

Zaya!!

made some cards!!

garden fairiy

Using the trimmings from the grapevine and wisteria vine I made a garden fairy.  She stands about 6 feet tall and is right next to the path so we see her all the time.