For the past 10 weeks I was a Fall Resident at The Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. Doug Casebeer, the Artistic Director of Ceramics, and Takashi Nakazato, Visiting Artist, were both strong influences during my time there and I am excited to see this video portraying their relationship, as well as Takashi’s connection to…
This is probably the nicest review I have gotten on Etsy. I enjoyed reading this detailed description on how this customer thinks about a wood fired porcelain cup he bought. Selling these cups is always a little bittersweet for me, because there are not many left and I haven’t fired in an atmospheric kiln in…
An elegant way to wear porcelain! These porcelain “tokens” were decorated with a gold luster and then designed into rings, pendants, brooches, and earrings. I make these tokens on my travels around the globe, with local materials, and transform them into a wearable piece of art. These porcelain jewelry pieces are assembled by me here…
After applying #gold #luster and #chinapaint the last step is to apply decals on ceramic. Here I am using a Vintage decal with #blue and gold #flowers from England. —-> @potsinaction has been taken over by @louieseven.0 hosting a week of #piadecals – be sure to follow along on INSTAGRAM and tag your pots in…
I am re-visiting the cup again. It’s hard to transition from designing a flat surface to a round one. My budvases were designed to have as much surface as possible in order to decorate, so this form is a completely new challenge. I decided to take the ornamentation I use for the “Korsett” series and…
Mapping out the surface on a ceramic budvase from Melanie Sherman on Vimeo. This is part of a series of videos about including china paint techniques, applying gold luster and decals.