Pottery

Nautical one of a kind pieces

of art on pottery 

Kolene Spicher 

I am working on a painting at the moment for a gentlemen who wants the Smeaton Tower painted 

from Plymouth, UK.  As I drew the lighthouse (and I will blog about it later), I was thinking this would be cute on a pot.  

I decided to put some of my Polkadots on this piece.  I have them on the opposite side of the lighthouse painting.  

This is slightly blurry, sorry! 

This little guy needs fired yet.  It is still in its basest form, almost! 

This also needs fired.  The colors will change.  Unfortunately, a lot of times as you fire, some of the colors are less vibrant.  What you paint is not always what you get, almost never, actually, LOL. 

The shape is slightly different from the other lamp bases, but I think it will go well with the one that I still have (in living room).  I will use it till it sells, smile. 

I loved the big round light that I sold at wilton.  Here is a peak!

This has a great gold lined shade, compliments of Restoration Hardware.  I love their shades, actually. 

This vase is hand formed from a slab.  The top is sort of irregular and this was done on purpose.  See how the rose sort of falls in that V.  

This vase in the front is porcelain.  The vase in the back right, which happens to be of the Bay (any bay you'd like), is earthenware.  I am really into the uneven top edge, don't know why, smile. 

These sort of speak for themselves.  But, you can see, there is a lot of artwork on these pieces.  They are all one of a kind.  

I got some mugs back recently, too, unfortunately they had some issues.  However, I know what I did wrong.  

Here are some pictures.  I have 8 more mugs ready to paint with similar imagery.  

This one with the green sails I LOVE.  The surface has some issues, though, so I will keep this one and make more that are similar because the imagery is good and attractive. 

Black sheep mugs for the farm! 

I love  making mugs.  They sell easily and they make people smile, that is a good thing.  People that have followed my artwork over the years know that I love primitive art.  I found this little girl so sweet.  This mug turned out, too! 

That's about it for now.  I will have some more to blog about next week because I have already started to paint my Christmas orders.  I have a good bit to fill so I will be talking away in the near future.  

Thanks for looking.  

 

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Painting a Little Girl Portrait

FINISHING a Little Girl Portrait - Part 2 

Well, here she is!  I love the overall color tones of this painting and am pleased.  I painted it using watered down acrylic paints and then softly aged it using my 'old techniques.' Coincidently, the technique helps to preserve the painting, too!

At first glance, I see that the flower  on the floor connects the doll and then the furniture.  My eye goes to the doll, flower, chair, and then table -  each piece in that order.

I have included this picture to show you the scale. It is a little blurry but it helps.   I simply set it on a book case and left the stone fruit reveal the size.  As I said yesterday, it's not all that large ~ 8x11in??  I cannot recall.  Look at yesterday's post if you need or want to know.   

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Look at the vibrant color of this flower.  That is something that is important to me when I paint reproduction artwork--COLOR.  I think that it's easy to get carried away and have something too antiqued.  

Look at these dear little shoes! I bet her toes hurt. 

Love this frame and the mottledness of it! (I know that's not a word).

Finally, I bring you her sweet little face with big blue eyes.  I think she is dear! 

Enjoy! 

PS - If there is ever anything that you might be interested in purchasing, please ask!  You can look at other artwork that I have done on www.spicherandco.com.  Like us on Facebook!  Spicher and Co's artwork is a more diverse, but there is something for everyone!  

Happy Spring. 

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