Seated Tardigrades 13 and 14

These tardigrades were practice for the Laboratory Tardigrade.

Tardigrade #13

Tardigrade #14

Metallic Cannabis Leaves

These are nine ceramic Cannabis leaves painted with metallic acrylic paints.

Chamsas 141 and 142

Chamsa 142

Chamsa 141
The black glaze ran unfortunately.

Cannabis Cup #5

This is a slab cup with three large Cannabis leaves and no handle.

The Doglion

This came out a little too cute for my taste.  It's a sculpture based on a dollar-store resin figure of a mammal that might be a dog or might be a lion.

Here it is with the source object.

Toothy Grin Cup

This is a slab mug with a molded toothy grin.

Demented Grin Cup

This is Eye Cup #41, the Demented Grin Cup.  It has a molded smiling mouth and four pairs of tube-like eyes.

Chamsa 145

This is a three-layer chamsa.

Eye Cup #38

This is a slab cup with one large eye, screwbean mesquite pod eyelashes, and no handle.

Squid and Octopus Objects

Tarot Devil

This is a ceramic wall mask in the shape of the Devil from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.  He's called "The Devil" in keeping with the Judeo-Christian flavor of the deck, but it's clearly the wicked nature spirit Pan under whatever name you choose to call him.

Atu XV, The Devil

Eye Cup #42: The Angry Indigo Face Cup

This is a slab mug with an angry, bestial face glazed with a gray-blue glaze called Pussywillow.

Laboratory Tardigrade

I sold a tardigrade on Etsy a few months ago and the buyer asked me to make a tardigrade seated at a lab bench with a microscope, Petri dishes, and a plate reader.  The processes of drying, bisque firing, and glaze firing have taken about two months.

Hallucigenia Series

This is a new series of sculptural interpretations of the Burgess Shale organism called Hallucigenia.  They are based on the original, incorrect interpretation of Hallucigenia as a worm like creature with spine-like legs and tentacles on its back.  It has since been shown to be related to modern velvet worms and to be a creature with tentacle-like legs and spines on its back.

Purple Hallucigenia

Blue Hallucigenia

Green Hallucigenia

Red Hallucigenia

Group Photo