Belle Armoire Two Part Necklaces

My 2 part necklaces will finally be featured

in Belle Armoire Jewelry, Fall 2015.

More ScrapBachs!

Making Clay Fabrics

with earthenware clay & colored 

Pilcher's Slips...

Impressed from Petroglyphs

These greenware goodies are all taken from the new

P E T R O G L Y P H S

Intaglio Impressing mat, one of eighteen

on sale Labor Day Weekend in my Etsy shop.

Petroglyphs

No matter the civilization, duplicate symbols 

from each show up across the boards.

The individual meanings 

are up for grabs still we feel 

an attraction to many of them 

as if we were the ones

who left them...

My latest INTAGLIO impressing mat

is a conglomeration of ancient symbols,

PETROGLYPHS, if you will

which have been sized

small enough for fashionable wearables.

Petroglyphs also has reflective symmetry 

which allows you to pattern

the most massive of trays.

Available through BHClaysmith Etsy.

Ruby and Pebbles

The CUTEsie making workshop 

a few weeks back at

The Community Arts Center

went off without a hitch.

Everyone made CUTEsie with

their individual touch...

Meet Pebbles, the 3-leafed vase...

Not as big as you thought, huh!

And Ruby the CUTEsie

personal pitcher

Perfect for a spot of cream

for the Earl Grey!

Ruby was part of the Cheltenham 

Art Center 75th Gala.

Oh What Fun...Ceramic Pot Shard Pendant Necklaces

I love using my very own clay shards 

to fabricate these necklaces.

I feel as if I can truly claim responsibility

for their existence and their upcycling

to "Art to Wear."

 Whale Tail Pottery Shard Pendant

Making CUTEsies...

A Collection of CLAY CUTEsies

Cream and Sugar Prototypes

So today I played around with tweaking

cream and sugar templates

I had previously made...

This pitcher is slightly larger than 

the original with more

slope to the back of it.

I never really finished the sugar bowl

design with the previous pitcher.

I like this sugar bowl design but feel

it has to be shorter.

Right now it looks like it could be

a tea caddy.

Now there's a thought...

Tumbled Pottery Shard Pendants

Each one of these pottery shards

is a piece of someone’s vision.

They are an imagined bowl, cup or platter

headed for the Holiday table

or that special pitcher for the Maple syrup

served on Sunday mornings.

But somewhere en route

to their continued existence,

they met with an insurmountable hurdle.

This in no way lessens their value 

as a symbol of a dream.

Each smooth tactile piece of clay

embodies the process it took to ‘become’

 and to wear one

is to share in this inexplicable experience!

(Each shard may be worn with either side out.)

Getting a Handle (or two) on Your Cereal Bowl

Everyone should spend the morning

enjoying their favorite cereal

in a splendiferous bowl...

And a handle helps to keep that bowl

from slipping from one's grasp...

Even the big part of a spoon is the handle;

how else would we pick it up?

So it's great to have handles on both

your spoon AND bowl.

These also work well for soup...

Look for my bowls at the

Community Arts Center in

Wallingford, PA 

during their Empty Bowl Sale

this year.

The Incomparable Cup

Discover how to construct a drinking vessel 

of true aesthetic force and great beauty – 

From mugs to steins to jorums and tea bowls, 

uncover the basic character and sensuality

 of any vessel 

intended to be caressed by human lips.

Don't miss this upcoming workshop on

C U P S

at the Community Arts Center

Wallingford, PA

7/11/2015

CREATING CLAY FABRICS

When I first started to hand build clay,

I used plain or textured clay slabs to construct my pots;

something I have come to call Clay Muslin.

I had no idea just how disconnected I would feel

from these pots once they got out of the bisque kiln!

Then I discovered I could go past this clay muslin stage

​and make Clay Fabrics from the slabs.

This process allows me to see how my pieces will LOOK

before I even know what they will be. 

Building from these clay fabrics 

makes dealing with the bisque fired pieces a breeze. ​

Too bad you missed the workshop on this technique
at the Community Arts Center.

Myrle Borine Beaded Perfume Bottle

In case you don't know, I have a

Renaissance woman in

my ceramic class!

Myrle Borine, 

clay hand builder and beader 

extraordinaire, made this amazing

perfume bottle by bead weaving

her own design around it.

What an amazing gift she has given me!

ScrapBachs

I bet you have no idea what a scrapbach is!

Well, let me tell you... When David Weisenbach

creates DropBach trays for ceramic clay, 

he has scraps and these scraps married

together in various designs

become ScrapBachs!

 Now that you know what they are, let me show you

some of the many things I can do with them...

 This shape when foam pressed into a circle of clay,

makes an interesting folded looking dish.

I'll have to try this with a larger circle

and see what happens...

This weird shape can be folded in to create 

a dipping bowl which pours.

Again these are just prototypes I am playing

around with forming...

And this shape makes an interesting creased

dish or catchall as well.  None of these

are huge, quite the contrary...

I'll keep playing with different sizes and shapes of clay

with these and share the results...

Oh, what fun!