Wisconsin is beginning to experience spring-like weather, which means the street cleaners are out, brushing and sucking and cleaning up garbage, debris, and treasures from the streets. For the past few months, snow covered the streets and curbs, and the street melange added up over that time, hidden from view. Now that the warmer temps have [...]
I've got my clay&rust series just about completed. The glue is drying on my second-to-the-last vase, so I expect to be finished tomorrow. The series consists of 12 pieces, all vases. I waited until I had all the vases glazed and fired, then laid them out on a table to "try on" the pieces of [...]
More on my clay and rust theme. I threw two pots on the wheel, then used my hands to squish in two sides in order to make a flat surface to attach a piece of rusty metal. I wrote about my hunt for rust here. The first time I happened upon a piece of rust laying [...]
Last month, my daughter's boyfriend Seth took me to an auto junk yard - my very first time visiting such an amazing collection of old cars and trucks. Seth was on the hunt for the brown Honda Civic he junked last year, and I was on the hunt for rust. I'm amazed and delighted by [...]
I found a rusting, flat piece of metal on the street a couple months ago, and thought it'd look great on a ceramic piece. Because I wanted a large, flat area to display the metal, I built this vase out of rolled-out clay slabs. On newspaper, I sketched out a design, folded it in half [...]
