Octopus Project

For my final project in ceramics this semester, I had to make a set with at least a bowl, cup, and plater. After making my octopus bowl i was inspired to continue with this theme. I made two cups and a matching plater. Everything took me a very long time to make, but everything came out great. The bowl took me three classes to make (that would be nine hours), the cups took two days (one day to throw the cup, then the next day to make the handle), and the platter took me one class (between three and four hours non-stop). Each tentacl on every piece was made individually using one to four diffrent size coils. Now that is a lot of work. The bowl was made with a combonation of three and four diffrent size coils while the cups were made with two and the platter was made with one. Let me know what you guys think.

Here are all the pieces together. You can really see all the coils and how they go together.

Here is the octopus bowl upside down so you can see all eight tenticals.

And here is the inside of the bowl. Isn't it beautiful?! This is my favorite piece that I've made all year.

Ashley's Art Work Is Finished!

My masks that i posted back in March are now glazed and painted. They look beautiful and I couldn't wait to show them :) Here is the Japanese Devil Mask with a high fired glaze called "iron red." Sorry about the soda cans, it was the only thing to prop him up. :D

Another angle of the Japanese Devil Mask.

Here are Squee and Shmee painted with acrylic paint.

It's A Boy!

Oops! Denny and I found out that our new baby Shelby is not a girl. ITS A BOY! We thought it was a girl because of his shell. The bottom of his shell seemed to be more flat, indicating he was a female. Then, we decided to check the internet to see if there were any other ways to find out if she was a she or if she was really a he. We found the best way is to check the tail. Females have short stuby tails and males have long fat tails. Shelby has a HUGE FAT tail and we know now that she is a he. As of today, Shelby is now known as Stanly, or Stan for short.

Our New Tortoise!

This is our new baby, Shelby. We adopted her after she was brought to Denny's work. She was hit by a car and someone found her and took her to Petacular. They then called the Oakley Vet and brought her down. Her shell was almost cracked completly around, but with a little glue and some wire screen she is back to being a tortoise again. She loves going outside to eat the leaves off of the weeds and her favorite treat are those little dandelions you always see in your back yard. We named her Shelby after the Shelby GT Mustang because she can move very fast. We love her some much and are lucky to have her.