New Look!

Below is an 8" plate I posted on my blog in March, 2014.     I found the piece the other day and decided the edge of the plate didn't look finished.    So I put pen into my paints and penned a lace type border around the edge.    That is another lovely thing I LOVE about painting on porcelain......
you can add to the design months or even years later.    Actually bone china doesn't re-fire that well, but good quality porcelain can be fired many years after the initial design has been completed.  
Go to previous posts for March 2014 and you will see the difference the border makes.

Loved sharing with you today!

Pansy Ball

I was browsing in a china shop (not unusual for me!!) and found these balls with gorgeous lids resting on top.     Of course I had to purchase a few, and this one I painted with pansies.   In my mind I envisaged filling the ball with water and popping some fresh pansies in the top.    Unfortunately the ball has a small portion underneath without glaze, which meant water slowly seeped through to the plinth underneath.    So I can't use the ball for fresh flowers  . . . . . I can only have it on  a table or shelf "for show only" !!  

Rose Ball

 

Below are two photos of a ball I painted with roses, gold work and mother of pearl.    I used gold to tip the edge of the little flowers serving as a lid to the piece.   My wood turning friend made me a lovely plinth for it to sit on. 

 

 

 

 

A Set of Three.....

These were painted for Adelaide.   The plates were the same size but my photography indicates different sizes!    I loved painting 3 the same . . . . yet different.

Roses, Grapes, and Trumpet Vine.    Enjoy looking at them.   :-)

Hello!

It has been almost a year since I posted the Heart Series, and a year since Jim was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.     Since writing we have shifted into a lovely sunny 3 bedroom apartment with a nice view,  and over the road there is an open paddock which is well stocked with various birds, and people walking their dogs. 
Amazingly Jim has his appetite back and has gained 10 kgs (he had gone down to 44 kgs) and is eating and sleeping well.   His energy level is very low . . . .  but he has no pain and pretty well is living a "normal" life.    This change in health has the doctors' puzzled - and I don't really know how to explain what has happened in his body.        So we accept the present situation and thank God for the extension of life on this wonderful earth.

Thank you for reading!     I have been doing a little painting and shall post some pictures shortly.