More characters from THE GHOULS COLLECTION!!! This festive grouping comes from my friend Beckie who has her collection on a table all its own! Funny though… if memory serves me correctly, I think Beckie & her husband have TWO Werewolves… and yet somehow, no Werewolf showing up here in the photo??? I’m intrigued…

Remember, if you have some of my “Ghouls” in your Halloween display… please send me a photo or two!!! Email photos: gary@firewhenreadypottery.com . Thanks!!!

With Halloween just a few days away, it’s time for my GHOULS COLLECTION to start making their appearances! I’ve been making a different limited-edition “Ghoul” every year for sixteen years now. A lot of people have been collecting them for a long time… although I’m not sure how many “complete sets” there are out there… besides mine! This is my friend Chris’ collection… close, but not complete!

Does anyone know which characters she’s missing???

And if you have some of my “Ghouls” in your Halloween display… please send me a photo or two!!! I’d love to see my “Ghouls” out in the wild. You can email photos to me: gary@firewhenreadypottery.com . Thanks!!!

HAPPY OCTOBER!
It’s a new month & The Ghouls are coming out to play!!! I’ve been creating an annual addition to “The Ghouls Collection” for several years. And it’s always fun to see people displaying their own ghoulish collections at home.

Thanks to Diane for showing us her collection… and thanks to Diane’s sister who came out to ART IN THE BARN to get this year’s Owl for Diane! who couldn’t make the show!!

The OWLS have landed!!!

This year’s flock has arrived at ART IN THE BARN as the newest member of “The Ghouls Collection”!!! There’s a limited number of forty… and when they’re gone, they’re gone forever!!! C’mon out to Barrington for a wonderful Fall art fair. The weather is great… and the artwork is even better!!!

All glazed… kiln loaded… here we go!!! Look at me.
Practically ahead of schedule?!!! HA!!!

Time to get some glaze on… don’t panic,
this “chocolate mint ice cream” color turns clear when fired!!!

Perhaps my cutest “Ghoul” in the collection?!

And as the eighteenth member of the collection, that’s saying a lot. I’m totally enamored with the pops of color & how each one is looking different! Might make choosing the “right one” tough for some people this weekend at ART IN THE BARN!!!

That is… if I can get them in a kiln soon enough…

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!

More colors… more fun!!!