Recently Commissioned Crow-Kins.....

 ...I learned a new technique of laser printing onto metallic leaf...so that was cool.

A Selection of New Monoprints........

"Retrograde"  Roughly 8.5" x 11".  Acrylic & oil paint on Bristol paper.

"Quantum Viewing" Roughly 8.5" x 11".   Oil paint on Bristol paper.

"Twilight Zone"  9" x 12"   Oil paint on Bristol paper.

 

Work in progress.....

 ....stoneware, still in drying stage (not fired).   Roughly 17-inches tall.

High Wire...........

 ........monoprint on Bristol paper.  Oil paint, acrylic, graphite and charcoal.   Roughly 8-inches square.

Strange Days.........

........In a Strange City.   Bristol paper with charcoal.   8.5-inch x 11-inches.
 

New Stuff photo dump..............

Adding a little Festive color to the ordinary world.

New garden totems

 

HaPPy HaLLowEEn!

...raku Cat-O-Lanterns

 

A few of my favorite bowls....

 

Empty Bowls.........completed........

 ....This represents about a month and a half of work in between other things.   Ended up with about 80+ bowls and cups to donate to the local Empty Bowls sale coming up next month.   It's been fun, but I think I'm burned out on bowls for the time being ;)

That time again.........

The QC manager examining work in progress.

The first bowls of the year.

The second firing.

I have another 40+ bowls ready to glaze, so you'll be seeing more of these.   This is the annual push to create bowls to donate to the local "Empty Bowls" fundraiser for a local foodbank.   It's kind of fun to create something functional and not have to deal with the sales of the items.

Polynesian Relic...........

Polynesian carving of an unidentified green stone (possibly meteoric in origin?) 127mm x 101mm x 25mm. Date: circa 480 BCE (via carbon dating).   Origin:  Unknown.  Obtained from a native trader on Naairoa, Rurutu Island by the 1923 Marsh and Wilder South Pacific Expedition, but anecdotal evidence suggests original source is an outlying uninhabited southern island.     Believed to depict "Cthulhu" - leader of the Great Old Ones.   Miskatonic University Museum Collection,  Item# 23A14-00452319-MWC Restricted Access.

House studies..............

Charcoal & acrylic.   13" x 19" on rag paper

Charcoal, acrylic and oil on rag paper.  13" x 19"

 

A Gift to the Pacific Ocean........

 I created a small (about 6-inches tall) Cthulhu idol and thought it'd be cool to take a photo of it in the surf (as if it had just washed up on the beach).   Just after I planted it in the sand, the surf surged hungrily in and swallowed the idol, washing it out to sea.   This was not my intention, but this is both ironic and fitting -- given the Mythos that Cthulhu lies dreaming in a sunken city somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean.   I hope it washes ashore again and gives someone pause for thought ;)   If you visit the Sitka Sedge area, check the shore line!

A small idol of Nyarlathotep, half buried in the eternal sands of time.  Ceramic, roughly 6-inches tall.

monotypes.......continued......

 

"motion" 9" x 12".   oil paint on Bristol

"Tower at the Edge of the Lake"  9" x 12"  Oil paint on Bristol

"Codex"  9" x 12"  Oil paint on Bristol

"The Mountain Dreams" 9" x 12"  Oil paint on Bristol

Kurinuki ceramic planters....

 ... created by carving from a block of clay.   Cone 6 stoneware finished with oxides and terra sigillata.   Roughly 3-inches tall.

Murder! Murder!!

Crow-Kin vase (prototype).  Cone 6 Stoneware

Raku Crow-Kin (clear crackle glaze).   Roughly 6-inches tall.

Raku Crow-Kin (Blue Moon glaze)  Roughly 6-inches tall

Uber-Kin.   Cone 6 stoneware.  Roughly 9-inches tall.

 

New Bob-Bots........

  

.....ceramic, cold-finished.   Roughly 6-inches high.
 

Mono Prints....more explorations....

"The Center Cannot Hold"  11x14 Oil paint on Bristol paper

"Ripples"  11x14 Oil paint on Bristol paper

Untitled.   11x14   Oil paint on Bristol paper

Untitled.  11x14  Oil paint on Bristol paper

"The Tower Card"   9x12 Oil paint on Bristol paper

"Tower of Babel"  11x14  Oil paint on Bristol paper

 

"Shrine of The Circus of Dreams"............

........assemblage/sculpture/digital collage/mixed media (ceramic, metal, wood, paper).   Roughly 19-inches x 7-inches x 4-inches.   

"Shrine of Mad Science"........

  

.............a fantastical celebration of 1950s science...back when science would cure all ills and give us mad dreams.   Assemblage/sculpture/digital collage/mixed media.   Roughly 19-inches x 7-inches x 4-inches.   Created as a donation to Artists In Action's fundraiser, "Outside the Box" for the Salem Art Fair coming up the end of this month.

 

Mono-print Exploration continues.......

.......6" x 9", hand-cut stencils and oil paint on Bristol paper.
 

"Untitled" sculpture...........

 ......ceramic, stoneware ^6.   Roughly 16" x 7" x 4".