Our show opened on June 10, in the Centano Gallery at the Lompoc Museum. It will be on display for 2 months.
Here are some pictures I took the day of the reception

L to R: works by Eric Morlan, Carol Moore, Peggy Kizziah

by Carol Moore, Ann Brink (my collage is interactive; several pieces can slide on steel rods

by Dee Frasher

by Ron Barrows

by Dee Frasher

Double walled vessel, and basket w/ copper tubing handle, by Ann Brink

by Eric Morlan

Top to Bottom: pieces by Noreen LaPointe, Ann Brink,  Ed Brooks

Mobile by Carol Moore

by Ed Brooks and vases by Noreen LaPointe

Stone carvings by Ken Jorgensen

by Dee Frasher

by Ann Brink

by Ann Brink

by Eric Morlan and Ken Jorgensen

by Noreen LaPointe

by Carol Moore

by Dee Frasher

by Dee Frasher

by Ed Brooks

by Carol Moore

Here are 3 views of an interactive collage I finished last week.  It is part of a show at the gallery downstairs at the Lompoc Museum. The show is the work of the Lompoc Sculptors Guild, and will continue for two months.

Anyway, the collage is 22" x32", and has two moveable pieces mounted on steel rods. I call it "There's Always More".

 I ended up making a copper handle for this basket, instead of the branch one, pictured earlier.

 Here is the final version of the bells, with mallets, on the stand I made.

This sculpture was made from one thrown disc, which was cut into rings, which were then carefully bent.  I made it quite a long time ago, but left the pieces separate.  I like to have them all on a table and set them all to rocking at once, if possible. Being of differing sizes, they were always stopping and had to be restarted- kind of fun!  But for a change, this spring I decided to fasten them together using fishing swivels secured by black coated wire. They can all be easily turned other directions, but I was interested to find out that when the piece is hanging where the wind moves it slightly, the natural position is perfectly lined up in the same direction.

May 14th 2012 glaze firing

Two bowls and a small plate. The large bowl and the plate have the same creme glaze on them, but the bowl is made of a buff clay. Quite a difference.  The spots are from added grains of volcanic material.

 I intended to put cup handles on all these, but changed my mind.  They are just 5" front to back and almost that tall.

 I took this picture before the handle is glued in. Now I'm thinking of making the handle of some copper tubing instead, not sure.

 A 13" bowl.

 A double walled carved and pierced vase, only about 9" in diameter. It was thrown upside down.

Here's something to show I don't post only the successful pots!  This is a wall sculpture about 13" in diameter that I accidentally broke while cleaning up the glaze: (see the cracked spots?) I made 2 clay shims and placed them so as to keep the section upright, and fired it anyway. It won't go into the upcoming show at the museum, but I'll hang it here to remind me to try again.

 These are for some friends' beach house- they will be mounted all in one row on a weathered driftwood plank they found. Perspective is off here because the 1145 is vertical and the rest horizontal in the picture.

 These 2 plates are for a friend who ordered them- she likes to do easy-bake dinners on them. I need to get some lessons on that.

MORE POTS, never a bad thing- these are from a glaze firing this past weekend:
I think a lot of potters play around with this idea- a plate of fake food. I started to type: "a fake plate of food", but realized, hey- it's a real plate. Anyway, I've had some of these components around for a while, and finally decided to try it. Actually it was in my previous firing, but it really needed improvement, so I added a band on the plate, changed the cookie color and tried to improve the green on the peas. Taking the photo in full sunshine helped a lot- it's still not that appetizing.
I will get a hanging lamp kit at the box store, and finish this. It's about a foot in diameter.

This dish as about 7" long. The impressions were made with a round shell that had a hole in the middle- my grandson's found it.

This one is almost 15" wide , 3 inches deep. It's a keeper! (by that, I mean it has something wrong with it, so I'll probably keep it). I had a few test bottles on the shelves above this pot, and some particles jumped off and fell through the crack between the half-shelves. The particles are some big volcanic grit that I had dipped the sides of the bottles in, then fired them "grit up", in case the grit wanted to slide off. I didn't think it would be jumping off! There were about 8 dark specks on one side of the bottom of the bowl. After a little sanding, the area is fairly smooth, but doesn't look good. Am surprised it's hard to see in the picture.

This plate is 12" wide, and actually turned out about the way I hoped it would.

These are some of the bowls (soup size) I made for the "Empty Bowls" charity event. I have some more similiar ones from the previous firing.

Some things from a glaze firing in February:

These are some faux oyster shells for barbecuing oysters. It would never have occurred to me to do this, but a friend asked me to try it...he thought they would be easier to clean than the real shells he was using. I thought they might break, but he tried some test ones I made, and they were fine. I did add grog and kyanite to the stoneware clay body.

Happy Valentine's Day, and I hope it's Valentine's day every day for you!

This bowl is 12" in diameter. It was commissioned as a gift for someone who is getting married on St. Patrick's Day.

I made several bowls with 4-leafed clovers on them, so as to be sure and have a good one. I carved a stamp to use on the bowl below:

Some free-hand clovers on this one.

These are bird-feeders. They fit on a broomstick, or length of pvc. pipe, which you stick in the ground. I made larger versions last year for birdbaths.