Scholastic Arts 2013

Every year my students amaze me. In only a short period each day, they can focus and create some really great pieces using their skills, concentration, and imagination. With such eager and willing fingers, they celebrate Art every day!  

 This coil pot was done by Stephanie Drongoski.

ARTichoke by Hunter Simon

 Kristina Turturiello's Screech Owl

 Kristina Turturiello pays homage to Athena

 Lisa Benedetto's Paradise Island mug

 Lisa Benedetto's Fantasy bowl

 Cheyanne Bryant...Beginnings of Life

 Emily Bunnell's Hopping Around

 Joe Card created Shark Bite mug

 Swag Ryton done by Josh Card

 Scorpion Totem Jar by Josh Card

 Pineapple jar by Josh Card.....Finally Home....(spongebob's home)

 Elana Carroll's whistle

 Drako, the dragon mug by Elana Carroll

 Eric Chapka....mixing science and art on an inverted bowl

 Carley Doney's Sunrise Bowl

Carley Doney's Garden Mug

 Stephanie Drongoski's Chirpy whistle

 Stacy Drongoski's Floral Bowl

 Sara Evanitsky's starfish inspired container

 Kelsy Frisk created an orange blossom coil pot tree

 Sam Garafalo's Nature's Nest Bowl

 Sam Garafalo's Fern inspired bowl

 Nicole Haliscak's nature mug

 Carson Klikus's sawdust fired cactus

 Sierra Lord's Peacock vessel

 Mary Martin's polar bear bowl

 Mikaela Mayers created this elephant. It is 25" tall....quite the skill!

 Emily McNichols Squiddley

 Emily McNichols Toucan on a branch

 Zebra Mug by Alexa Meyer

 Alexa Meyer's coil pot

 Olivia Olver...Blue Shoe

 Olivia Olver Pear Jar

 Olivia Olver Elephant Rhyton

 Kelsey Peck Quilted Vessel

 Noah Pietraszewski created  Ancient Sloth

 Libby Rickard's Salad Heaven

 Sebastian Echeverria-botero's blowfish whistle

 Emma Spittel, Homage to her grandmother....Be Bold

 This is a very unique piece by Emma Spittel. The eyeballs are salt and pepper shakers. The mouth can hold napkins and the head has an insert that will hold flowers.

 Also by Emma Spittel, the emergence of a butterfly.

 Kristina Turturiello, Bee Bottle

 Kristen Valentine, Nautical bowl

 Sephora VanOrden.....Going Down

 Allison Weidner, Don't You Think You Had Enough?

 Hear Beat by Allison Weidner

 Bears Love Honey Too by Allison Weidner

 The Strike, by Allison Weidner

 

Ally Welsh's Coil Pot she appropriately names Coiled Frustration

Ally Welsh's spiked bowl...!!

These are the last pieces of 2012....the kiln is wrapped and put away for the winter. I've created a stone patio for firing with a sand pit on the side. This will be finished next spring and I will be firing those pieces I will be making over Christmas break this year.

I've applied to have a show in 2013 with the Delaware Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, New York...so we shall see what 2013 will bring.

 

 

Laughing keeps you healthy!

This made me laugh....as I make each one, I just smile and think, for the person who has everything......they don't have a turkey whistle! 

This is ready to go into the oven and get basted!

I think they are very funny!

Creatures from the Sock Drawer!

 

Crazy....yes, I have been consumed lately to create these sock creatures.....and one thing always leads to another. Cutting socks to make parts for one, leaves parts left over for another....and so it goes.

I've been crazed! Oh well, as long as they make me laugh!

This is a family portrait....could be your family....no?

The smallest ones are pins, the second row are from junior socks....and the others from women's socks.

Quite the family, I'd say!

The summer of 2012

It has been months since I posted. The summer was not spent in my studio, but at Potterville, our escape from the world. It is only 10 minutes from home but there is no phone service or internet available...and so, it is a peaceful place to relax. It wasn't until just a few days before school began, that I returned to my studio to work. Now there are many projects going on and teaching at the same time. This is the first and last pieces from the summer of 2012. Looking forward to Christmas break to make many more. The firing was pretty successful and has inspired me to push onward!

  This piece was heated, pulled and then sprayed with Ferric. The different temperatures give the variation of colors.

 Three views of this fish vessel....the copper reduced and the body of the pot was glazed and then scrubbed to clean the surface, leaving the cracks full of the glaze.

 This piece was glazed, pulled when it reached temperature and then sprayed with ferric.

 This was glazed on the fish parts that wound around the pot.

 The toad and the grasshopper.....and age old story.