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 This Day of the Dead tin with the Guardian Angel and peasant woman is now with DeniseS, the maker of the vanilla bottle Old Woman. Jen/boozrkitty made the Mayan Maiden doing the blood ritual over on the right. Check out the faux jade mini beads around her wrists and neck. [Click on
image for close up]
Food is offered to the Dead on the
Ofrenda. With the food are jugs and pots of something to drink. [Click
on image for close up]
 Iced Lemonade pitcher was made in a Demo. The Salad was also made in Demo sometime last year. [Click
on image for close up]
 This very rough pitcher, made with the very last of the first DOD Skull cane will always make me smile. It's not the best use of technique but I had FUN making it. Remember when you're wrestling clay to the ground, if you're not having fun something needs to be changed. Use the topics you love, colors you love then the wrestling is joyful and not a chore. [Click on image for close up]  Check out the penny on
the lower left. That's the size reference. The Japanese Salad dish was
an exercise in making micro mini food. The clay things the salad is on
are my first tortilla efforts back in the early days. I keep them
around to remind me that this clay journey is a process. All the Sugar
Skulls are from the same cane. Made a million of those things and got a
couple of dozen left. They roll off and wander. [Click on image for close up] This batch is done with
the Tongues of Fire cane. Done as a pinch pot, a bubble pot, a tube
bead. They are children of the surround color of the first DOD skull
cane on the left. I use the same colors over and over and put them
through their paces as I learn how to get a grip of my clay. My whole
clay journey is captured on this page, including the burnt tea set
representative there on the lower middle. On the right is the tiffany
lamp shade done with tons of translucent, but that's another
story.
[Click
on image for close up]Visit Nora Jean's website at http://www.norajean.com and http://www.norajean.biz. Nora Jean Gatine is a List Owner of MSATClayArt, whose motto is: "To Uplift, Educate and Love." To subscribe to this group, go to MSATClayArt-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.  Salvador |
