Christmas time in Bluefield!

I love it when it snows in Bluefield! It is so beautiful! The snow kept falling for several hours and I don't know how much we got, but it sure was a lot! And it was the good kind too! :)

This is the "pizza-oven" kiln, hehe, I call it that because it looks like a pizza oven! :) It takes a lot of pots to fill this bad boy up!

Professor Walter Shroyer and I worked together on some firings.

After filling up the big "pizza-oven" on Saturday we came back on Sunday, after Church, to do a raku firing! The little pots are so small! Oh dear! I'm always afraid of them breaking...:/

After we fire them in the lil'raku oven we put them in trash-cans filled with sawdust and paper to burn over night.


Oh, and this is inside of the lil'guy! Hehe!!! :)

Well that's it for now! I'll show you all more in the morning when I get up! Time for bed!

Sleep, sleep, I got to go to sleep!

The LATEST!!!

So what's new with the Chocolate Box Painting? A lot! As my husband walked in the door tonight the first thing he noticed was how the candy with the bite in it looks like it is popping out from the surface. Whew! That's a good sign! Here's a close up of it and you can see the close ups of the different textures!



Just as with the baseball player and all of my paintings I'm using the blow up photo for scale, the smaller photograph for reference and the actual object for greater accuracy.

And of course! The Guinea Pig Pattie is with me! LOL! However the only advice she has for me: "get me a carrot"! LOL!

As soon as I can get all of these pieces 'lifted up' in a three dimensional look then I'll add in the black background and the contrast will make these pieces just pop-OUT!!! :)!

Heading into the LAST WEEK OF CLASSES!!! AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

So it's the last week of classes coming up and you can bet that we'll be in the art building for a very long period of time each day!

Before you ask, no we DO NOT awake at 4AM! That's the time we got home from the art building two nights ago! LOL!


Here are some of my new Ceramic pieces:

Carousel Box that when put together will go around in a circular shape!!!! :)

SEE!!! :)

And of course, we don't just work at the art building we eat, sleep and practically live there!

Late nights

Lately, we have had a lot of late nights - or all nights -- at the art building. Creating art takes hours and hours of work. Here, you can see Jerry catching a few winks before doing more work.

More Steps

The latest work on my painting.

Good Enough To Eat

One of the things that we did this week was to deliver my painting, Good Enough To Eat, to the cafe that displays some of our work -- along with the work of other artists.

Ornaments

This week, we finished making Christmas ornaments that the school had ordered for the college staff. Professor Shroyer, his wife Linda, and I have been working on this project for months. I really like how the ornaments turned out!!! It was a fun project!