Painting the Clay Tools tiles
Here are a few pictures of me painting the Clay Tools tile. They’ve been fired twice in these pictures, and I’m adding color on top of the grey colors and printed outlines. These will be the last pictures of this mural for a while, until it’s installed. That will probably be late May.
Screening the Clay Tools tiles
Hera are some pictures of me working on the Clay Tools tile. In the first one, I’m getting ready to take a screened tile out of the frame after it’s been printed. In the second one, I’m screening the ink onto another tile.
Three firings
Here’s how the Clay Tools tile for the Artist’s Tool Belt mural looked aftert each firing. The first is just the screened outlines, the second is with the shades of grey filled in, and the third is with the colors added.
The Artist's Tool Belt
It’s done! Here are all 6 of the tiles depicting artist tools, the piece titled The Artist’s Tool Belt. I have shuffled them around several times and this is the order they’ll go in. What I was rearranging here is the positive and negative spaces, and how the design flows over the whole run of the piece.
Clippers & Grippers Tile
This is the sixth and last image in the Artist’s Tool Belt series. The piece is now done! I think this is my favorite of the six. It’s certainly the most complex, which is why I saved it for last.
Clay Tools
Next in the series, these are of course really special to me. For one thing, most of these tools are right out of my throwing tool box. In addition, the trowel is from a picture that Rudy Autio’s daughter sent me.
Blades Tile
Here’s the next in the Tool Belt series of tiles for the MT Museum of Art & Culture. I think they’re getting more colorful. I think I might have to go back and punch up the Brushes Tile a little.
MMAC brick wall
They have built the wall where my mural will go on the Montana Museum of Art & Culture. They got the height of the niche and the height off the ground exactly right, which is a huge relief to me.
Fiber Tools Tile
Here’s the next in the series of artist’s hand tool tiles for the MT Museum of Art & Culture mural, the Fiber Tools. This was a hard one to design because so many of them are just straight skinny sticks.
Hammers Tile
I had a very frustrating week, the week before last. The screen chemical for the Brushes tile worked sort of OK, with a lot of touch-up. But the screen for the Hammers completely failed FOUR TIMES!