In case you were wondering about those previously random elephant and jaguar wall sculptures, here is the overall piece they are a part of. Can you guess what this is meant to be about?
(Eventually they are to be mounted on a black background, so it would look roughly like this./.)
This little guy started off life as a bowl.. and slowly transformed into something with legs and ears. And eventually with walnuts too.
In case you needed to see an elephant on a Monday…
This leopard is one piece of a larger wall piece underway. I debated doing this in papier mache and elected for ceramic instead, but now think I will come to grief trying to actually hang it up on the wall…
Seemed like this would be relatively easy to make, but alas, not for me. Witness bendy outcome and the crawling of the underglaze.. but! Still functional and the painting was fun.
For those who also suffer from having a hideous paper towel holder on the kitchen counter, I offer the following three step plan.
Step 1: Take an ordinarily hideous paper towel holder:
Step 2: Add a cat top and tail.
Step 3: Voila!
Examples of some recent ceramic work I’ve been exploring – more to come!
William Steig was a prolific illustrator and the artist behind the original Shrek! He made decades of contributions to the New Yorker and later in life authored some lovely children’s books.
Here is a small tribute, adapted from The Amazing Bone.
William Steig is the creator of the inimitable Shrek! The original of which looks quite different from the DreamWorks version, but both have their merits. Steig was a contributor to the New Yorker for decades and later in life became an acclaimed children’s book author.
The following is a copy of a watercolour from The Amazing Bone.
Here are some things I’ve been – and am still – working on since I last posted.. I have discovered that trying to paint leaves is tedious as well as difficult.. so is painting people.. cats.. etc. etc 🙂
“Fences” work in progress.. leaves, leaves, leaves… never again!
Work in progress
“rabbit” work in progress.. still trying to understand how to do grass here..
bet you didn’t expect this one ha ha. This one was fun and based from a picasso drawing
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