Jakob's birth box

Here is Jakob's birth box. Cute eh?

His full name - Jakob Lee Fowler - is printed on the top, and his birth details are printed under the bottom of the box.

He is the first Great Grand Son in our family, and the third Great Grand Child.

Cobalt Blue Urn

I was just in the mood to paint an urn - and found I had one sitting in my cupboard waiting to be painted! I ground laid the Special Cobalt Blue, which I love on urns. And decided to put fruit on the front and back - different apples on each side. There is enamel around the edge of the ground lay, but this doesn't show up on the picture posted here.

Cobalt Blue Urn - back

The back of the urn . . . . Burgundy apples with the blue violet grapes and yellow red cherries!

Pink Trumpet Vines!

This is the latest of the Trumpet Vine plates!

Colours are yellow red and blood red flowers, with a background of Blue Violet, into Blue and then into Blue Green. I ground laid the blue around the rim, and did a little bit of raised paste covered with Burnishing Gold around the inside and outside edge. Similar design - but different colour scheme!

Burgundy Trumpet Vine

This is the design I used for the trial run of painting trumpet vines, on the tile below.
This design was from a plate painted by Celeste McCall (www.chatty teachers and artists). I loved the design so much I decided not to add nor delete from that which she had painted. So all credit to Celeste for her eye of design!
My background went from Royal Plum at the top, then into Blue Violet, blue and then the palest of greeens at the bottom. I decided to leave the fancy cut out border white, to give the trumpet vines space to "breathe".

Trumpet Vine Tile

This is painted on a tile, as a trial to see what the design would look like! I like it, so am going to paint it again on a plate with a pretty cut out edge.
Actually it is difficult to paint the same thing twice ..... but I will try to paint a similar design of the Trumpet Vine flowers with similar colours!

Bisque Boxes

Here are two little bisque (unglazed) boxes I painted a few weeks' ago. I purchased them from my friend Walt when I was in Nashville last year. Walt has begun to pour slip, and has made some lovely shapes for the china painters to buy and paint!