An Egg

Ok, sometimes the weather is not co-operative, sometimes I just get bored.

Breaking an Egg

Like I said.....

Tulips

I was ready for spring so I purchased these tulips at the grocery store. This photo was taken using the available light from my dining room window.

Shedding

I liked the way this sunflower was drooping over one of its leaves and shedding pollen. So shoot me!

Beauty

It had just finished raining when I took this photo of the rose in our flower bed.

The Beast

Crawdads, crawdaddies, mud bugs....take your pick.
When it rains, these are common on our property. I'm glad because they attract birds and other critters that like to feed on them.

This one was in a water puddle in the driveway. When I got down to its eye level to photograph it, he became aggressive. Ohhhhh, I'm so scared.

Majolica Butterfly

Majolica is a type of pottery in which an earthenware clay body (usually a red earthenware) is covered with an opaque white glaze (traditionally a lead glaze including tin), then painted with stains or glazes and fired.

Today, we don't use lead based or tin based glazes, but the technique is the same. This was painted on top of an opaque white glaze with satin glazes and fired. It is perfectly food safe.

Yes, Another One

Oil on canvas.

The photo of this rooster was taken at a living history museum in Virginia.

The goal of the museum was to explain the evolution of the American farm. Irish, English, and German farm buildings had been dismantled in their respective countries, shipped to Virigina, and reassembled, along with American ones, at this site so that you could see the influence each had on our American farm buildings. In addition to the buildings on each farm, they had animals from the period represented as well. I don't know what kind of rooster this is, but I thought he was pretty.

Chickens

This is an oil painting on canvas. I absolutely love chickens. Just sayin'.

Eat your Veges

I painted this earthenware ceramic tea kettle to look like old, chipped enamelware while it was in the greenware state. I fired the tea kettle then painted the vegetables on the bisque.

Flamingo

On a recent trip to the zoo, I shot a photo of this flamingo with its head turned around into its feathers. I chose to paint just the head because it followed the triangle contour of this plate.

Rooster Tray

An old Russian proverb. I guess I wasn't born lucky as I have never had one of my roosters lay an egg. At least, not that I am aware of. But then again.....

Is It White with Black or Black with White

I go to the zoo by myself alot. I enjoy the peacefullness and solitude.

I took a photo of a zebra and decided to paint only a portion of it on a tear-drop shaped plate with fired ceramic color.

Happy Fellow

This is a beginning class piece painted with fired ceramic color.