Pottery Bird

Here's a nice fat stone bird to decorate your garden or shelf.

Done in an olive green stone finish with subtle green highlights on the wings, tail and beak.

Spider Plate for Halloween

Scary Spider Plate class is coming up Saturday October 19 at 10 a.m. This is a dinner size plate! Cost is $30. Ages 10 and up. Call 314-842-0110 to register.

I just finished painting and firing this bird. It's a new shape we got in recently and is fairly large. There are 2 versions: one looking left, and one looking right. I used some crackle glazes on the body and wings to give it an interesting texture. Its coloring is loosely based on an English robin.

Here are some finished pieces from earlier posts.

This owl...

Painted a quickie owl tonight. This is a new shape we've been pouring in our shop and we needed a sample painted. It's been antiqued underneath, so it's hard to tell what the finished look will be until it's fired. Fingers crossed...

Snail's Pace

My next project...

I painted the body with underglazes and then painted it with matte clear.  After firing, the surface was rife with crawling and shivering.  Into the bin.

Next I'm going to try stone finish glazes and colored matte glazes - no underglaze.  The shell is bright pink inside and pink stripes on the outside.  I will overglaze it with mother-of pearl when it come out of the first firing.

Well, that's the plan anyway...

Nate's WIPs

I've decided to start blogging my work - good or bad.  This will be a diary of some of my ceramic and glass creations.  Hopefully they will turn out great, but I'll even post the stinkers as well.  Please let me know what you think, but try to be nice. Thanks.

 I've wanted to paint this piece for a while, but couldn't decide on a design.  Well I've finally jumped in.  I drew a quick layout of some scroll work in pencil to get started.

 

Here is a little further in with some of the painting started.  The color is a dull brown.

 A koi fish I've started as well.  Two coats of a bright blue...

...and two coats of a lighter dull blue.

Stay tuned...

Nate