Purple Pendants Collection

These are what happens with clay leftover scraps...

Which are compressed together and cut into shapes...

Then accented with Mayco Designer Liners...

In this case, the scraps were Standard's 710 and

cone 5/6 porcelain paper clay...

Every two pictures shows the front and back

of the same pendant components - 

Photos 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, 7 & 8, 9 & 10

show how they look on each side of the same piece

When these are used to make a necklace

in reality you end up with two different necklaces...

If used for earrings, you look good

both coming and going!

Often the clay colored shapes determined

the Designer Liner accents; for instance,

did you spot the starry night cat & fish on the one pendant?

 Made a lot more of these than I thought; 

some are at Blue Santa and others will go to

The Pennsylvania Guild Store in Lancaster.

Then I'll also make some into necklaces

and earrings to sell...

I love the clay scraps and Designer Liner

patterning mingled!

Two Sided Ceramic Pendants

"YOU RED MY MIND" European Butter Dish/Cheese Tray

Fin....

Monster Mel & Leaves Bells

Coming to a Garden or Front Door near you!

Two Faced Cat Bells

Two bells, Four faces...

Pinched Bell Talisman for the Garden

Designer Liner Stoneware Beads

The Many Leaves Vase (bisque)

A darted vase demo from my Monday class

becomes the latest surface for my Designer Liner leaves...

A Test Tile Worth Framimg

The best way to get the feel of a new product is to simply use it!

This white bisque tile was first coated with areas of underglaze colors

then those colors were accented with various colors of

Mayco Designer Liners - what fun!

Creating a Covered Cheese Tray

This covered tray began awhile back...

And is now ready for the kiln!

Making Pinch Pot Bells

Just some pictures of the progression of making pinch pots into my

bells.  When almost leatherhard, I carved in some lines...

Then after they were almost dry, I cleaned up my carved lines

and began adding underglazes and Designer liner accents.

It's a Wrap...

"P" Clay shallow dish accented with Designer Liner dots & lines 

and underglazes on bisque.

The fired shallow bowl inside (top) and outside (below).

Then the final bowl accented with Virginia Creeper vine root

around the entire perimeter...

"P" Clay Paisley Pendants

Leaves on Yellow Tile

SEVEN LEAVES on a SUNNY DAY

Underglazes accented with Designer Liner lines and dots

on white lowfire tile, frame complements of Emily Cohen.

Pinch Pot Bells in the Making...

Stoneware was pinched into a soft bell shape and allowed

to totally dry in that shape...

Then black terra sigillata, green underglazes & Mayco Designer Liners 

were used to decorate the outside of the bell shape.

The cat Talisman bell was pinched from scroddled stoneware clays

first the body, then the head which contains clay pebbles to rattle...

When leather hard, underglazes were added for color and the body 

was carved with a texture.

The bell itself is two faced with one cat looking to the past

and the other to the future so the person hanging it

can stay centered...

Hot out of the kiln, both the Leaves and Two Faced Cat Bell.

Too many clapper choices for the cat!

The pinched greenware Monster bell is enough to ward off the 

meanest of garden visitors...

The bulging eyes were accented with underglaze when the bell

was leatherhard and the clay used was scroddled stoneware.

Once bisque fired, underglaze lines and dots were applied.

The colors will change drastically after firing; a clapper tongue

will be hung from the inside and a cord from the top.

Out of the kiln!

A Little Leaf Tray...

A practice tray for Show 'n Tell at my upcoming workshops.

Prepping for a Summer Workshop

This summer, I will be conducting a tray workshop at

The Community Arts Center where I will demonstrate

using Mayco Designer Liner underglaze applicators

to create patterning on the trays made...

So I decided to make up samples of various trays

with my signature leaf drawings on them to have on hand

as Show 'n Tell at the event.

The photos are of the bisqueware and the fired pieces. 

The round tray is yet to be accented around it's

perimeter with Virginia Creeper Vine root.

These two bisque trays have been decorated with underglazes

and a black Mayco Designer Liner used to outline the leaves.

The dots in the background were also applied with various

Designer Liners in underglaze colors.