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Clay Wednesday
Today was a good day to make another one of my pear faces. They have progressively gotten bigger as I make them- I think this is the biggest one yet. I just love making these guys. I’m a bit obsessed.… Continue reading
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Feeling yucky
This morning after taking my son to the school bus, I thought it would be a good idea to shovel the inch of snow that had fallen overnight. It was pretty light fluffy stuff so not terrible to clear, so… Continue reading
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Sleepy Pear People
Wednesday means pottery studio and my pear people were ready to come home today. I love how they turned out, and think I’ll be entering them into the upcoming portrait show at the Posterity Gallery. Just need to decide if… Continue reading
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Self portrait on a cold day
Today I wanted to work on a self portrait with my new Derwent Inktense pencil in Payne’s Grey. This will eventually be painted over with watercolor and the inktense will activate and be permanent when it dries. As I add… Continue reading
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Pottery pear people
I glazed my first batch of pear people today at the studio. I had two white clay and two red clay pears so this is a bit of an experiment to see how they turn out. I put a rub… Continue reading
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More Self Portraits on Zoom
This mornings zoom was an opportunity to practice more self portraits. I realized towards the end of the zoom that I hadn’t turned on the lights and the curtains were mostly closed. When I held my painting up to the… Continue reading
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Playing with Reflected Light
Today was my sister’s birthday and we went to see Wicked in honor of her special day. It’s been a while since I last saw a movie in the theater- Everything Everywhere All At Once, with my friend Brianscotte, of… Continue reading
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Silly self portraits
This month’s inspirational theme for my art club is self-portraits, so for this morning’s Zoom with June I played around with some silly versions of a self portrait. The first was myself as a sleepy pear. I have really been… Continue reading
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Sleepy Pear People
Yay, today I was able to make another of the pear people I have been obsessed with lately. When I got to the studio this afternoon I saw that I had quite a few bisqued pieces ready to glaze, and… Continue reading
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Sweet day
Today was filled with cleaning and decorating and baking cookies. So full, in fact, I almost forgot to pick up my new glasses. They are a new style and my kids are still getting used to my new look, but… Continue reading
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