Category: sculpture

I’ve had so much fun making Jack O’Lanterns this fall, that I couldn’t resist making more. I played with the facial features of these pumpkins, […]

Oh my gosh, I’ve had so much fun making Jack O’Lanterns this fall! I started in early September and I am up to (I think) […]

Art Source 2024 An Exhibition of Works by Knox County Art Educators I was unable to attend the opening of this year’s Art Source Exhibition. […]

This frog prince is a little larger than the last frog and I changed up the glazes. I used three celadon glazes on the frog […]

We had a pretty massive snow last month – 8 – 10 inches – and then some nasty ice as well. The ice is not […]

I started making these pumpkins the weekend after I took a Jack O’Lantern Workshop at my clay studio. I was so excited about the process, […]

In early September, I took a Jack O’Lantern workshop at my clay studio and just fell in love with the process. We used the pinch […]

So relieved and glad to have some gnomes come out of the kiln with no fogginess in the clear glaze! 🙂 These gnomes were made […]

So, I’m not sure how I feel or what to write about these gnomes. I’ll be honest – I’m disappointed in how the clear glaze […]

Ohmygosh, I’m so happy with how these little guys turn out! I really wanted to recreate the large frog that I made back in the […]

After making my flower-inspired garden masks, I really wanted to continue making and carving masks, but with a different underglaze color and theme. I’m not […]

Prepping for the masks I made molds for the masks using plastic grocery bags that I shaped and taped. Pretty simple and low cost, easy […]

I love getting a chance to work with different clay bodies, so I was very excited when a friend gifted me a box of red […]

Frogs are one of my absolute favorite animals and I’ve made a few different clay versions of them over the years. The last version was […]

Clay Slabs Clay slabs are portions of clay that have been flattened into a sheet, usually with uniform thickness. The clay slabs can be used […]

I started some smaller gnomes in the fall of 2022 but due to illnesses (Covid and then strep, ugh) I didn’t have a lot of […]

Back in early December of 2022, I took a Christmas ornament making class at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, located nearby in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. […]

In the summer of 2014, I began creating animal garden masks. Just like the human/human-ish garden masks I previously created, the idea was to use […]

We bought our house in the summer of 2012 and the house has an adorable fenced in small side yard with large trees and some […]

Well, I started 2020 making the friends in the photo above and I had no idea what was about to happen to the world. I […]