Look at those wings - what a great sense of motion!
(They look great - but it's too bad we can't see the pots better. They looked really good before anything was planted in them!)
Bella sent some pictures of her tulips and one of the masks she's been sewing. Beautiful! Fred Chen says "No wheel to turn, no pot to throw, so I turn to bird watching. Keeping the feeder well stocked becomes my daily chore." Look at those wings - what a great sense of motion! And from Mel Bricker: "I'm enjoying the creativity of nature interfacing with the pots I created in the studio. It is wonderful to be greeted by both the plants and pots, although the pots are a little hard to see through the foliage. Here are photos of two of our favorite plants that are really blooming right now." (They look great - but it's too bad we can't see the pots better. They looked really good before anything was planted in them!) On the left, Terri Snyder with some more of her ceramic works-in-progress - looks like she's having fun! And on the right is a new sculpture that Gaby Miller has started at home. She said it's the first time she's tried making a head, which is quite impressive! Below are two acrylic paintings by John Rose. On the left are the Hills of Rossmoor. The landscape on the right was done while watching a demo on YouTube - he said that he used a palette knife on the tree. Very nice work! Chrissie & Hank Fabian each have made some lovely and unique garden ceramics - Hank's is the one on the left, while Chrissie's sculptural pot is on the right.
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Anyone who spends time in the Ceramic Studio has seen Janet Welch's work: colorful jewelry, quirky sculptures, portraits of dogs & other animals on small ceramic plates. Above on the left you can see another skill that Janet is a master at - custom needlework design. And it's another wonderful dog portrait! ___________ Anne Shulenberger has been doing some sgrafitto on unfired tiles she brought home when the studio closed. Above on the right is one called "Catitude," which is a work-in-progress. "It will look very different once it's fired - for one thing the clay that's so dark now (i.e., the color of the cat in the center) will become a light speckled tan. That's what makes ceramic work so exciting. You never know exactly how things will turn out; it can be like alchemy!" Anne says. Terri Snyder not only brought some clay home and started to make a cylinder with it, but she's also been teaching her husband Ron how to do it. What a great way to shelter in place! Ron is a very talented painter (you can see some of his work on the walls behind them) who is not yet a CAC member - however I think we'll be seeing more of him in the future! Above are images of John Terlip's work, and these are his words: "Here are a couple pieces of my recent clay work. The bottle is sagger fired, and the other pot was purposely broken and each piece fired with a different type Raku. I have also included a poem I wrote last week (shown below), with the view I see every morning from my desk. I'm currently the ceramic artist at Villa Con Cuore (an Art Retreat in Fallbrook, CA in the San Diego area). I'm living in my RV across from the art studios, and I have just extended my trip for another 3 months."
We look forward to seeing John (and his amazing work!) when he returns. For information about the place where he is staying right now, click on this link: www.villaconcuore.com While the Ceramic Studio is shut down (along with almost everything here) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of our members have been making art at home - and not necessarily out of clay! The work above is from Josephine Wang (who is our current featured artist - you can check out her beautiful sculpture & pottery in the Ceramic Studio's display window if you happen to be down there). Here's what she has to say about it: "I did some Chinese Calligraphy for the first time in many years. These are two different styles. The one on the left was the style of calligraphy used during the reign of the emperor who ordered the construction of the tomb with the Terra-cotta Army (i.e., in the late 200's, BC). The one on the right matured in Tang Dynasty and is still the classic style today. A great exercise in centering oneself and whiling away time" ___________________________________________________________ Below is a fabric piece by Darryla Green, who said "This fabric with big black blob-shapes was purchased last year in Kyoto, on our Japan trip. I didn’t buy quite enough, being unfamiliar with meters - so I've added a strip of fabric that's sort of fringe-looking, to lengthen the bottom. I am only hand-sewing. In no hurry, since this period of our lives may last a while." Below is a charming ceramic tile (still unfired) by Sue Wetzler. Sue says "This week with little to do, I did a sgrafitto design on a small tile I had made during the class, that had gotten bone dry. I had painted several of them with underglaze and brought them home. It’s no great work of art (I really can’t draw) but I like it. Hope you are doing well and staying healthy. I miss the studio!" Check out the paintings by Sally Andersen. Sally's words about them: "I've been painting watercolors every day! These are in progress... Not finished yet." Well, you could have fooled us - they look beautiful!
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