Color Me Mine

Just painted this ceramic cheese plate this evenings with some friends from run camp.  Excited to see how all our projects turn out.  Hopefully, the kiln gods are good to us.

I miss...

ceramics and all of my CSUB art friends.

Sigh...

Push Pins

I’m pretty sure I will have a meltdown on January 9th when I have to go back to teaching and online classes, so when I’m crying in my car just ignore me. Even though there are still a few days left of vacation, we already got an email from one of our professors saying we should start making notecards! So, being the procrastinator that I am... I made push pins instead! I will never make these again because they took FOREVER, but maybe that was the whole idea of making them in the first place. How could I possibly start studying before these were made? I have to pin my note cards up with something, right?

Movember!

Ahhhh.... we missed it, but we’ll be ready next year with little guys. You can make your Movember mugs right here! My SLP BFF and I took a road trip the other day to finally see where and who we go to school with (we take online classes). It’s been a semester and we decided it’s about time we get ID cards, so we could start getting discounts at movie theaters. Really, I think we wanted these just so we could walk around Bakersfield and flash Northridge identification. :) I still think we should have used these mugs for the picture. The whole trip took us about eight hours and we laughed pretty much the whole time. I’m sure people were looking at us and thinking... “These guys are Grad Students???” We had so much fun and met two of our wonderful classmates! I'm so happy and thankful to be a part of this great group!

P.S. We made a flower one too, so it looks like you are smelling the flower! Not as much fun as the mustache ones though.

Number 31

Ceramic tiles! These were painted at my Aunt's studio, but you can make something similar at places like Color Me Mine and Cafe Mud!

Number 29

More ceramics! YAY!

Numbers 8 and 9

Hand built ceramics! The frog took me like thirty minutes...I’m serious! I really don’t know how that happened! I just grabbed some clay and this is what it turned into!

Number 4

What the heck is this? I’m not quite sure myself (I think I was going for a wind chime), but I made it and so can you. This is actually a really fun technique. Take an image and copy it (if it has writing make sure it’s in mirror image). Then...right when the image has been scanned to copy, open the printed. YES, open it! And take the paper out from inside the printer. Why? The ink on the paper will still be wet. Take this image and press it onto your ceramic slab. Be careful though because the image can be smeared easily before the first firing. After that your good to go. Add a low fire glaze, a high fire glaze, keep it as is (this is what I did), add a clear glaze...you decide! This finished piece was definitely put together last minute. It will be reworked into something amazing soon we hope!