A New Outlook on Earthenware

What a snob I can be about ceramics! I love the high fired stoneware, even though the colors are not as bright and cheerful, the pieces are so dense and strong. I had some earthenware left over from tile making and decided to try throwing with it.

Well, first of all I looked at the water after a couple of dunks to wet my sponge and thought, "Yuck, gross, this bucket has grease in it"!!! I dumped the water out, cleaned the bucket and then found out it is the nature of earthenware. It has a butter-grease kind of feel to it. NOT like porcelain but smooth and smarmy. Never did like smarmy but I may change my mind about it being smarmy. Is that a 4 letter kind of word??? I call the man that travels around eating weird things smarmy and I do mean it in a sort of 4 letter word way...

I am making these shaving mugs and will sell them at the Johnston House Holiday Boutique this year (if I make enough to make it worth while). Entry fee is just $50.00 and they take 20% but I need enough to make it worthwhile. They will cost about $22.00 I think. Still up in the air over that.

Our summer is starting to get to me, drizzle, fog, overcast, brrrr...

Not a Fish TILE. A ? Tile

Look how brave I am getting. This tile was done very free and easily. Inspired by the drive to Half Moon Bay, California. There are fields of various things growing along the 2 lane highway to the north. There are some trees and a big hill. I see migrant workers as they work in all kinds of weather working in the fields, planting or harvesting. Anyway, I look at these fields and tried to capture it on a tile, this is my first effort. When making it the rules about perspective were forgotten and I just did it from memory - plus imagination. It is so different from the others.....