Orders going...

We have been steadily making pots without firing much. However we had a couple of orders we needed to get out so we did. I sent them off today but not without a couple of photos first....

then we took a walk....

over the Hudson River on a new walkway made from an old bridge connecting Highland to Poughkeepsie....lovely..

In the Studio

Steve has been throwing some large vases lately...

decorating them

drying

bisqued

ready to glaze

Finishing Landscapes

 I really enjoyed making these landscape pieces. It's so much fun to just doodle.... I'll post the results after they are fired.

Talking heads!!

Ha..ha...ppy Easter!!

The last firing came out well!!

Xtra large version of Steve's pinecones...an order.

Looking for some gooey chocolate eggs...no doubt!!

Landscaping 2012

Not having an order from the Metropolitan Museum of Art will allow us to play more with new ideas. Here is a look at  Cherie's 2012 landscape series which are essentially a hark back to her earliest work which was quite whimsical.

Forms designed by Cherie, thrown by Steve

Decorating a bottle

Finished view

Another view of same bottle

Bowl with Landscape

Final view of same bottle

Another view of bowl

Two or three more will complete the series.

Winter/Spring/Winter

 Very strange indeed... March in New York with temperatures in the 20s then the 80s and back to the 20s! It's enough to confuse Mother Nature.

We did succumb to a bit a spring fever, getting out to the garden to clean up, fertilize and chip some mulch for what looks like a very dry season. We are on a fire alert here in the Catskills. The combination of very little snow and hardly any rain has push the same area hit so hard by Tropical Storm Irene last year into drought conditions.
Fortunately the drought has not extended to our studio where we have been busy making pots in anticipation of selling at the shows we have signed up for so far. We have 4-6 on the calendar already and are waiting to hear the results from a few others. We start on that first weekend in June at the Kenan Center in upstate New York. Until then we are busy worker bees.

A new simply elegant piece from Steve

and more to do!!

Vanda receives 'Best of Show' award at the Maryland Orchid Society Show