Garden Sculptures

Mint-Warthog



Warthog 1 was damaged in the Falling Shelf Disaster of Twenty Ten.

The mint appeared dead after leaving it inside for a few days, but it has resurrected itself once again. This mint is truly the Body of Christ. Hoc est corpus.












Basil-SmallCat



At some point, it's going to be necessary to slaughter the basil plant and make pesto.












Dill-Joint



This is an interpretation of the Joint of Mutton from Through the Looking Glass. Alice finally gets to be queen. She has a lavish banquet thrown in her honor, but the other two chess queens won't let her eat. They insist on introducing her to each item of food, after which it's considered impolite to eat it.



The small planter to the left of the one with the Dill-Joint is a plant which sprouted in the soil without any help from me. I transplanted it and I thought it was dead, but it lives. I'll try to identify it when it flowers.



The dill hasn't broken surface yet.










Rosemary-TongueCat



This is an effigy of Bill the Cat; due to a life of debauchery and substance abuse, it cannot stand on its own.











Cilantro-SkullSpider



This is the result of making clay objects spontaneously and not having a specific model in mind.

My Productive Tuesday Night at the Studio

There is one episode of this season of D&D Encounters which has a variety of fey plant monsters. They present Twig Blights, Twig Blight Swampvines, and Twig Blight Swampvine Seedlings as separate entities. I already have clay objects suitable for use as the seedlings (the Carrion Vine Seed Pods from March of the Phantom Brigade), but I'm attempting to make easily differentiable minis for the other two entities. These are Twig Blight Swampvines. The last object is meant to be a Dire Rat.



















There is an extinct North American mammal called the dire wolf. It was larger and scarier than the extant wolves, so the publisher's formula to make a scarier version of any normal animal is "Dire x" where x is the name of the animal. This is meant to be a dire rat.













Finally, this is Rollo Bones from the children's book Rollo Bones, Canine Hypnotist by Marshall M. Moyer. Thus concludes the fruits of my productive Tuesday night at the studio.

White Clay Mushroom

The glazes look lighter and more vivid on a white clay body. Other than that, I prefer the speckled buff clay that I've been using for years.

Xorn

The xorn is a classic D&D monster. It's a refugee from the Elemental Plane of Earth (or the Elemental Chaos in 4e), a being that burrows easily through solid rock in search of rare, valuable, and delicious gems, a being which is quite happy to kill to get them.













The toothy mouth on the top of the head is obviously a vagina dentata. I noticed that the tripod-like legs and nose-like arms each came in groups of three. It made sense to add a third eye and I attempted to place it so as to give the vagina dentata something to be happy about.











The endearingly clunky xorn from the AD&D Monster Manual. It was unselfconsciously weird drawings like this that originally drew me to the game.









Of course, the new publisher had to make it look cooler and more menacing for 4th edition.

Unfired Twig Blights

Twig blight miniatures for an upcoming Encounters episode. They're supposed to be fey plant creatures. They have many breakable protrusions and I wanted to be sure to document them before they are subjected to the drying process and then the sheer hell of the kilns.

Underglaze Experiments

I want to use the underglazes, which give more color variety than the regular glazes, but I also want them to be glossy. I'm trying to figure out which underglazes work with which glazes.

















Some recent miscellaneous clay objects:



From Danielle's Skull Stamp:









I don't remember making this, but it's from my press mold:

Bender

This is the latest in a series of cartoon figures. I like how it came out even though I think it looks less like Bender and more like a guy in a Bender suit.









Like most of my cartoon figures, this one is open in the back to make balancing easier and exploding in the kiln less likely. Therefore, sadly, this Bender has no shiny metal ass to kiss.

Chamsas 31 and 32

Chamsa 31 utilizes a bird mold, but since the hole is on the palm, they look more like teardrops.









Chamsa 32 

Tieflings

These are tieflings, a race of humanoids who interbred with devils in the D&D universe.









This tiefling superhero lost a horn.









This tiefling is so top heavy that he can barely stand up.









This tiefling is actually a collaborative effort. Sara made the figure and I added horns and glazed it. The head and cross are from a monstrous nun toy.

Chamsas 29 and 30

Chamsa 29: Those are small skull molds.




Chamsa 30: I'm mildly embarrassed to admit that that pattern is made from a doily. Yes, a doily.

Grell Cup

Although the title contains the word cup, it's more of a bowl. Although it's masquerading as functional pottery, it would be very difficult to use, which is fitting for a bowl shaped like a grell. It's actually meant to be a grell polyp or larva.

Tar Devils

These are tar devil brawlers made for a recent session of D&D Encounters. They didn't get done in time for that particular game and I'm not sure there's going to be much need for tar devils in the new season of Encounters.





This one lost a horn in the kiln.




The three brothers together, just like in The Darjeeling Limited.

Fingers Up or Fingers Down

Snake Mold Objects

I would love an excuse to use these as D&D miniatures. I was thinking they could be shadow nagas.

Chamsa 28

In addition to my initials and the year, this one has a serial number on the back. I stopped doing this around April, so I'm not sure where this chamsa has been hiding all this time. Maybe it was stolen and the thief decided to give it back.