Birds are always a favorite art subject for me. This series was handbuilt using red clay. During the leather hard stage, I painted blue underglaze washes, green underglaze, and white slip. It’s a very simple color palette, but the carved pattern creates energy. I plan to expand this series to include a variety of shapes …
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Home Is Where The Art Is
Starting March 10, the Milwaukee Art Museum will celebrate local art treasures. Their Milwaukee Collects exhibition focuses on our community’s personal perspective on art. In conjunction with this exhibit, the gift shop will be featuring local artists’ work. I am thrilled to have my illustrative pottery included! Come by the gift shop and add my …
Seeing Things
When I was a child, my great-aunt Alice’s paintings filled our home. They were wild abstracts with splotches of colors and shapes. I loved looking at these paintings and seeing things that the shapes created. It might be a dog looking into a field. Or a cat in a pillbox hat jumping across the canvas. …
Initial Impressions
My monogram plates are now being sold at The Painted Swing, W262N596 Washington Avenue, Cedarburg, Wisc. They were at hit at the recent Strawberry Festival, so I had to make some more plates to add to my collection. Each of these plates are unique and one-of-a-kind. So if you like one, contact me or stop by this …
Into the Woods
I just finished a new series of plates in time for Holy Hill Art Farm this Saturday and Sunday. My theme was woodland animals. Though I see bunnies, raccoons, squirrels, and deer in my urban garden here in Wisconsin. Three bunnies hand-painted on large plate Rarely is it just one bunny hopping around in my …
Art Angels
I just finished and shipped this custom-painted angel plate. When it comes to winged creatures, I normally paint birds. But the angel was a nice shift in subject. I found this beautiful cream plate with delicate flowers and ornate pattern along the edge. I like to incorporate existing patterns on the plate into part of …
Making a Monogram Mark
Originally I created my monogram plates by painting patterns and then applying decals I designed on my computer. The need for the typography to be perfect comes from decades in a career as a graphic designer. This contradicts my desire to bring my pieces back to their human made origins. With hand brushed strokes, the monograms …
Party Animal Owl
When I started this project I was really going to keep things quiet. Muted and subdued colors that reflect the quiet beauty an owl portrays in the real world. The planned palette was originally something more like this: But then I started painting. This owl had a mind of its own. It wanted to be …
Under the Sea
Fish and sea life are such fascinating creatures for an artist to draw. They provide a lot of imaginative opportunities with shape, size, pattern, etc. And well, fish just have funny faces, don’t they? So I designed a set of sea life illustrations from a variety of cream, white, and gray plates I found. It …
Feeling Blue
The weather in Wisconsin is brutally cold. As a southern girl at heart, I just don’t adjust well to unthinkable temperatures like -22°F. I take my Vitamin D, turn on my “Happy” light, and try to turn my attention to things that warm my heart. Since I am feeling so blue, it is only appropriate …