CVHS tile
This 8” x 8” tile is this year’s installment of a job I’ve been doing every year since about 2006. The seniors at Central Valley High School in Spokane Valley, WA have a contest every year to design a tile for their class, which I reproduce on tile, and it's then installed on a wall in the lobby of the school. Some years the design is nothing special, other years it’s really imaginative. This year’s is one of those imaginative ones.
Cobra installed
I posted a picture of this tile piece about two months ago when it first came out of the kiln. Here's what it looks like now that it's been installed.
Summer Open Studio Sale
Art fairs cancelled. Galleries and gyms closed. Workshops cancelled. Snow in the mountains. Result: lots of free time and a new series of paintings that I’m really excited about! So I’ve decided to hold an Open Studio (as in REALLY OPEN, with all the doors and windows open).
Mt. St. Helens Plate
Someone just sent me this picture of a plate of mine from probably 1980. It depicts Mt. St. Helens erupting, and the brown ash cloud in the sky is really ash from the May 18, 1980 eruption.
Port Townsend Area Map
This little mural just went home yesterday. It’s on 12” x 24” tiles and shows the area where the clients live, around Port Townsend, WA. There’s their boat, the tree outside their house, and the Adirondack chairs they sit in when they go to visit their friends, plus a few other local attractions.
Cobra
This mural just went off to its new home in California. It shows a very famous racing car, a FIA 289 Cobra, from the 1960s. The client showed me a photo of it and said they loved the hills around Monterrey. The running horses and the quail I added to give it a little drama. This is on 12” tile and will be a kitchen backsplash. The colors are a bit brighter in real life than they appear in this photo.
Online class
Hi. Bored and stuck at home? How about learning a new skill- china painting! You'll need a kiln, but you always have had to order all the supplies online anyway. We've now changed the procedure for signing up for my online course, so you can now register any time.
House number
I’ve made a lot of these house numbers over the years. They’re 12’ x 12” porcelain tile, mounted on a pice of tile backer board and ready to hang. Or they can be unmounted to set into brick, stone or concrete. I charge $200 for one of these, any image.
Purple food mural
This little kitchen backsplash mural just went home today. The clients have a lot of purple in the room, so they wanted purple food. No red, some green. I don’t often post detail so the pieces I do, but here’s a closeup of a small part of it. These are 6” tiles to give you an idea of the scale.
A new photo
I’m proud of myself today. I was able to do a new trick with Photoshop. This is a picture of myself that I clipped out of one photo and pasted into another. The tile pice part of the photo started as a picture of one whole end of a room, including the corner.