10.28.2016
Putting tiles in their place. Assembling another ClayQuilt of textured tiles.
Gotta love straight lines and epoxy!!!
10.05.2016
Spent some time tonight glazing up the last batch of textured tiles for a commission piece I’ve been working on. Can’t wait to see them come together into another ClayQuilt wall piece.
10.02.2016
Categories: tiles
I spent some time today glueing tiles in place to make some ClayQuilts today.
Ahhh… I love the smell of epoxy in the morning.
09.28.2016
Came home from ART IN THE BARN with this beautiful porcelain tile from My Talented Friend Mike Skiersch. He hand carves the master tile and then makes a mold to produce these tiles. The glaze is one of studio recipes that looks incredible on his tiles. I love the color & the pooling. The crackling looks great on his tiles… not quite so good on my functional work.
To see more of Mike’s tile work, click here for his website.
09.25.2016
A beautiful morning to kick-off Day Two of ART IN THE BARN. So fun to be greeted by this smiling face when I arrived to replenish & restock the shelves. Come quick though… there’s only four Jack-o-Lanterns left!!!
08.28.2016
After a big race day, it was fun to relax in the studio tonight stamping some mugs and making some more textured tiles.
03.06.2016
Here’s a quick glimpse at the textured tile wall in my condo. Just under 3,000 tiles on the wall… each one handmade, textured & soda-fired. I love the wall and how the highlights & shadows play over the textures… (2,894 tiles in case you’re wondering.)
The best part of the story was when I was getting ready to install the tiles…
My Dad’s concern was what would happen if the weight of the tiles literally pulled the wall off the studs?! I innocently said “We put a new one back up?!”
And then my Mom’s question was how I was planning on cleaning the wall. To which my response was ‘Who cleans wall?”
02.14.2016
A huge thanks to Allison and her family for sharing their breakfast with me… err, us!!!
Too bad they didn’t share the yummy muffins too?!!! Just the photos of them cooling on a fun trivet tray of textured tiles.
01.03.2016
Great to be home after another long weekend of holiday celebrations with family & friends. Whew…
Just a glimpse of the tile wall in my condo… just short of three thousand tiles on my wall.
12.31.2015
Once a piece of pottery leaves my hands I always kind of wonder where it ends up. So it’s been so much fun to see some photos of their final homes. Like these in JoAnn’s house… two tiled mirrors and three textured wall pillows. Perfectly framing the doorway. Perfectly lit to help accentuate the textures.
