Three firings
Here’s how the Clay Tools tile for the Artist’s Tool Belt mural looked aftert each firing. The first is just the screened outlines, the second is with the shades of grey filled in, and the third is with the colors added.
The Artist's Tool Belt
It’s done! Here are all 6 of the tiles depicting artist tools, the piece titled The Artist’s Tool Belt. I have shuffled them around several times and this is the order they’ll go in. What I was rearranging here is the positive and negative spaces, and how the design flows over the whole run of the piece.
Clippers & Grippers Tile
This is the sixth and last image in the Artist’s Tool Belt series. The piece is now done! I think this is my favorite of the six. It’s certainly the most complex, which is why I saved it for last.
Clay Tools
Next in the series, these are of course really special to me. For one thing, most of these tools are right out of my throwing tool box. In addition, the trowel is from a picture that Rudy Autio’s daughter sent me.
Blades Tile
Here’s the next in the Tool Belt series of tiles for the MT Museum of Art & Culture. I think they’re getting more colorful. I think I might have to go back and punch up the Brushes Tile a little.
MMAC brick wall
They have built the wall where my mural will go on the Montana Museum of Art & Culture. They got the height of the niche and the height off the ground exactly right, which is a huge relief to me.
Fiber Tools Tile
Here’s the next in the series of artist’s hand tool tiles for the MT Museum of Art & Culture mural, the Fiber Tools. This was a hard one to design because so many of them are just straight skinny sticks.
Hammers Tile
I had a very frustrating week, the week before last. The screen chemical for the Brushes tile worked sort of OK, with a lot of touch-up. But the screen for the Hammers completely failed FOUR TIMES!
Marsh
This picture just came in from some clients. I believe they are in Virginia, and they wanted a scene of their local salt marsh.
Brushes Tile
Here is the first finished tiles For the MT Museum of Art & Culture mural, the Brushes. I love the patterns I can make by arranging them in different ways, but they’ll never be seen this way in the end.