Paper Swan landing on water

Today i finished the paper swan I started yesterday. It's almost life size, now to make a clay version , that should be fun!!

Candelabra

I took the glazed canelabra out of the klin today, it's got a Maiolica look about it, I love it Also went down to the canal and painted

Dr Death

Took a photo of me holding the ceramic mask in front of my face, Julie said I should wear it to work, scare the patients , aaaaarg!!!

Pet Gods2

I,ve bisque fired and under glazed the pet god candelabra. I,ll probably glaze it tomorro I've glazed the self portrait. I want to use it with the skull

Skull

I took the decorated and glazed skull out of the klin, I really like it met Frank at the railway station in Limerick to do a bit of painting

Pet Pieta

I seem to be a bit obsessed with the pets at the moment. So I've done a pet pieta It's only a joke but by copying michelangelo s pieta, I've learnt it. I know in my version the hands and feet are placed a little differently but I'll remember forever where he placed his and the exact drape of the body. I've learnt an awfull lot from this little exercise, imagine how much I could have learnt if my art education had been an old style one with months and even years copying old masters and plaster casts, but I suppose it was a differant kind of art then

Portrait of the artist as an old man

Painted the skull I like it a lot I also made a life size clay of my head,creepy

Evil Kittens

I glazed my evil kitten bowl it looks nice. I also fired the skull to bisque, I might leave it at that Went diving yesterday and brought back these urchin shells, they are nice. The sort of thing a ceramicist would like. Was joined by a dolphin for a half hour while diving he came right up and held his eye up aginst my mask and stared into my eye,quite weird

Skull

I made a skull from clay. being a dentist and understanding anatomy was handy, knowing the shape of the individual bones , how they fit and buttress each other Went painting with Jim and Monika in Peoples park this morning. I painted a victorian water fountain I like it

Sacrad Heart of Jesus eggcup

Today I made a Jesus eggcup and a mug with 1950's Limerick boys swimming at Corbally baths

Stoneware Hot water Bottle

Today I made a pinch pot copy of an old stoneware hotwater bottle. I inscribed a picture of a courting couple of about 50 years ago on the front and the route they would have walked from Limerick to the Mill stream on the back

OOPS A DAISY

Today I made a Stafordshire flatback , type figure. The middle girl has spilt her wash bucket and the Magdalene Sister has given her a clout