witching hour.

More and more I've been staying up late (late for ME at least - I used to go to bed by 10pm...) into witching hour, sitting in bed and drawing. It's marvellous. 

miro time

Saturday night/Sunday morning creative time with Monsieur Miro.

The Constellation Series makes my mind pop! All those interlinking shapes and the way each overlap creates a colour change. I'm itching to paint these designs on cups!

stick pots

Yesterday's stick insect sketches made their way onto pots today;

I started with a light sketch in brown underglaze pencil, then one or 2 layers of dark brown underglaze and a bit of shadow with the pencil again. I haven't used either of these products to stoneware before, so I don't know how the colour will fire, especially under a glaze - they may just fade and burn out.

sticks

Early this year, a good friend gifted some stick insects to me as pets. 2 spiny leaf stick insects to be precise. One boy (known as Boy) and one girl with a missing leg (known as Girl). They live in a bunch of eucalyptus leaves on my coffee table and are terribly civilised; they only wander off when they run out of leaves and their poop smells like gum leaves! I've been wanting to draw them for months and last night, finally did:

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