Oh yeah… in my “spare time” I also made a new batch of tombstones to go with my “Ghouls Collection”! Guess they’ll need to be underglazed while I have them all out painting owls! Why aren’t there more hours in a day???

So while I was underglaze painting my Ghoul Owls…
I also painted the new batch of tombstones.
Cute little headstones to sit amongst your collection of Ghouls!

Well, they’re finally here! With a late-night “reveal” of this year’s addition to The Ghouls Collection! While many of you have been asking “Who?” for awhile… get it?

I’ve been working on them for awhile in my studio… with a few hints posted here & there along the way. Did you catch them? But my owls still look a little naked! So I had to bust out some underglazes today to start adding colors.

Score & slip… score & slip… my ongoing mantra with my Summer Campers!
And this is a great example of what happens when you DON’T follow that mantra.

It was expected though… I knew this was just a temporary “sketch” of a maquette.

Lots of pots… plus ornaments & flowers… all loaded into the soda kiln!!!

A hundred & fourteen flowers… but who’s counting?
Now ready for soda-firing this weekend with glaze inlaid in the textures
& colored flashing slips for a “pop” of color!!!

Okay, so when I started making these flowers… I only expected to make “a few.” But you know me… I’m all in!!! No time for a sample. No time for a prototype. Instead… I just went crazy & made over a hundred flowers!!! Let’s hope this “plan” works out for ART IN THE GARDEN!!!

Over the summer I made a lot of handbuilt flowers with my Summer Campers.
Not really sure what to do with them… but I kept making more…
even some with stamped details. Go figure!!!

More flowers today at Summer Camp! Handbuilding day with my teenaged campers… making flowerpots with handbuilt clay flowers. They did a great job…and tomorrow they’ll paint them with colored slips!

Another week of Summer Camp done! Ending with a lot of flowerpots with flowers…
and perhaps a stray side-eyed penguin in the mix!!!