Nautical Pottery by Kolene Spicher

Christmas Gifts! 

I am working on a number of pieces right now.  With Christmas right around the corner, I think they will make fabulous gifts.  I have a bunch of stuff getting fired as I type this.  Here are a few pieces that were still too wet to go in! 

This jar or pot is around 5 1/2 inches tall.  It is decorated the whole way around!  

This one is an order 

I love round things.  Here's some rounder scenes! 

I am in love with silhouettes! 

This is a Right Whale

For whatever reason, I didn't photograph the sailor.  There's one there!  It reads:

This 10th Day of August, This ole' sailor spotted his first 

whale right off shore!  He was 29 feet long. 

Love the orangey pinks on the horizon.

This is going to be another light.  My other lights turned out great.  

The one sold, so I needed to make a replacement to

keep my living room in balance LOL. 

This light is about 11 - 12" high.  It has my seascape colors, etc, the whole way

around it.  It looks slightly washed out in this photo but in real life it has 

nice color. 

I don't know if I showed you my finished vase.  This guy is about 18" tall.  It was slab built and carved.  I love hand-building. 

The platter is a Greg Schooner! 

Hydrangea was compliments of my friend Susan.  I planted that wonderful bush in 2008. 

Let me know if there's something that you might like for the holidays.  PM me or follow me on instagram, which makes it really easy to see all my new stuff.  Kolene_Spicher is what I go by! 

I love all things polka dotted!  

Sometimes you can do things with pottery that are a bit unexpected.  Like I had a bowl (cylinder shaped) with polkadots and I needed something to put an antique Christmas tree in that I had picked up about 30 years ago.  Every year, I struggled to display it in a pleasing way.  One day I did this! 

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas! 

Enjoy.  

Kolene Spicher 

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Good Morning !!

Bonjour!

Bonjour!

A while back I painted some illustrations of French chairs.  I tried to sell them a few times but didn't.  "WHAT IS WRONG with these darn chairs??"

 This is what I put myself through when something doesn't move.  How can I improve upon these?  Well, I was thinking about them (a lot) and decided that they needed an animal sitting on them.
"Why not?"  I paint animals in clothes ALL THE TIME (www.spicherandco.com), so why not paint animals sitting on French Chairs!?? I wanted the animal to stand out, but then I also wanted the chair to be seen, as well.  I decided that it needed to be a silhouette.  So I present to you my metamorphous from this to this!

From this! 

See this is just too…boring.  That is the simple truth about these chairs.  You may say, "Why would you bother changing these?" Because I don't like them the way they are, ok?? Yes, I like the way I painted them but I believe that they can be improved.  I am driven to improve.  I think that they will make a fine print and have scanned them to be sold as a print.  But now you can have them with a rooster (and some other animal as I paint more).  Any suggestions are appreciated!  What makes this funny is what I wrote a saying on the bottom of each of the paintings.

Here are a few examples of some of the closer images!

TO THIS!
The original seat was decapauged so sorry, Folks, there is a line.  I don't mind it, though!  On the painting it looks like an old antique~which was my goal! 

AND THIS! 

The caption on the bottom of each painting is a little dialog between the two birds!  It is as if they are talking to each other!  "Good Morning (Bonjour) Mam and Sir!" I went to France one time.  I found the people very friendly.  That was the only sentence that I could say, and I said it proudly! 

HERE THEY ARE IN COMPLETION!  EACH HAS ANTIQUE GLASS AND IS IN AN OLD FRAME!

LOVE THE BLUE CHAIR

THINK KITCHEN! 

Thanks for looking!

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