Making my Ceramic Animal Sculptures Now - Giving Paintings a Rest

For at least the next few months, I'm going to be working on my always popular ceramic animal sculptures and wall-hangings.  I make each one by hand and have no employees, just me in my home clay studio.  It's a bit lonely, but I have one of my dogs and a radio for company.  And I love, love the "work," too.

Currently, I'm working on some rooster sculptures, and soon I'll be making some goat, alpaca, sheep, and goat sculptures. Also, I'm working on some very different sculptures, too, involving various stacked spheres and very fanciful body parts.  It's a slow process but very enjoyable.  They're more "artsy," and I'll be showing them here very soon.

My clay art and my paintings and prints are available on either Etsy or Amazon Handmade.

A sitting cat wall-hanging with a bird looking down at it

A cow

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Another cat with a curly tail

A dog face wall-hanging with a bone in its mouth

One of my large sitting dog sculptures sitting in the grass

A Ewe and her two babies, A mother sheep and her two lambs

Mother Ewe and her two baby Lambs

This is a painting I finished very recently.  I created it from photos kindly lent to me by a sheep and goat farmer who lives near me.  I'm not mentioning her name because I didn't ask for permission.  But I do thank her.

I've finally started doing many of my paintings in oil.  I love how it flows, but I'm still having a problem with messing areas I've already painted because it dries much more slowly than acrylic paints do.  I think, too, that the colors are more true after the painting has dried.

I'm Alive

Sorry for no posts recently (well, in quite a few months!), but I've been really busy and haven't taken the time to post any of my most recent paintings.  And I admit that I don't produce them as quickly as I was for a while because I've been doing a lot of work, too, in my clay studio.

Getting older and older every day but just cannot even bear the idea of slowing down.  As I've always told my family, I hope that when I do drop someday, I want to be standing at my easel, brush in hand.  What a wonderful life, that of an artist!