Tauranga Porcelain Artist Assn club "Leaf Project" 2010.

This photo shows some of the plates painted by club members who participated in the Leaf Project some weeks' back. An explanation of the project is in a post just below Ellie's photograph.

It was a fun project with many designs and ways of painting the plates.

Ellie Fowler

Let me introduce you to our latest Great Grand

Daughter, Ellie Fowler. She was born 8 days ago and weighed only 6lb 30z so she is a tiny! Tiny and beautiful.

Her sister Sarah Jane (2 yrs 4 months) and her brother Jakob (14 months) think Ellie is wonderful and want to touch and kiss her all the time.

Leaf Project

Recently at our club, we had a project to make a disign from leaves people had picked out of their garden. We then transferred the design to an 8" plate and painted it using lustres, metallics and paint. There were a number of china painting products we could use . . . ie . . . chipping off powder, enamel, texture paste and gold.

This was my plate. And of course I loved exercising the brain to design and paint it. But I would rather paint roses!!

Pretty little dish

I painted this 4" dish last week for fun!

I like to have a few little things on hand for "thank you's" ......

Ball rose vase

When I was shopping the other day I saw 2 little ball vases about 4 - 5" across, and (of course!) could picture roses on them!
They are not porcelain - the material seems to be a sort of stone ware, and was lovely to paint on.

I fired them only to 740 degrees, and took the heat up slowly in the kiln.

This vase has coloured roses on the top, and the bottom half of the vase is covered in irridescent blue lustre. Super!

Rose Vase

Here is the second stone ware ball vase, with torquoise metallic ground on the base.

Santa Bear

This is a cute little bisque (means without glaze) Santa Bear I painted for a Christmas ornament exchange with some internet friends from www.ppio

The exchange isn't until end of November, but I painted him early so I didn't have to rush.

He is just 3" high - the fur on his hat and coat are painted with silver metallic which gives the fur a nice sheen. This is in contrast with his nose area which is just plain white bisque.