The moon and paintings

I have been invited to do a painting for the North Carolina Pottery Center's 2nd annual Potter's Palette event. Flowers have been on my mind and this striking view of the moon through my Bradford Pear tree's blossoms caught my eye the other night. There is just something magic about the night and the way things look in moonlight. But, probably won't be doing this image. I wanted to incorporate a piece of pottery in the painting and I think I am going to use my most favorite teabowl. Whenever I need a pick me up, I turn to my Ruggles and Rankin (Rock Creek Pottery), chipped though it is. It's even more valuable to me now, because they aren't making work that I could replace it with. Check back to see how it's going. The painting is due at the Center on April 16th. Best get those brushes moving!

Potter's Palette at NC Pottery Center

If you look really hard, you can see my painting at the top left corner. Hope you're able to either attend online or in person! Probably preaching to the choir here, but having the Pottery Center is a huge benefit for the craft of pottery in the state and I'm honored to support it.

I'll also have a set of ginkgo trays at the benefit that show how I portray these images in clay.

Potter's Palette

Got an invitation to send an artwork on canvas to this show, which is a fund raiser for the NC Pottery Center.

This is the finished 12"x12" mixed media painting I sent in. After much staring at the blank canvas and one false start, I decided to try and capture an image I use in my pottery, which is leaves on a water surface. The ginkgo leaves are ones I gathered last fall to use on pottery (I freeze them to preserve them. ) They were at the height of color then.
Sorry about the light reflections off the surface of the canvas. I used a high gloss finish over the whole painting.

The Living Tradition

A great new book about North Carolina Potters, from the NC Pottery Center. I got a postcard about this, said it was a Cloth bound book for just $29.95 and had 192 or so pages. I thought there must be a typo on the price, so I called the pottery center, and it really was that price. What a value. What a resource, as well. And some of the proceeds from sales seems to benefit the center. Anyway, ordered it and it was here in two days. Now I'm trying to read one chapter every morning at breakfast. I have been delighted with the interviews and the photographs. Check it out!