Halloween decorations

I'm envious of everyone who has decorated for Halloween already!
I finally got some decorations up Saturday and snapped a few photos.

  

Fall 2010

This past weekend in Ohio was beautiful. It felt like fall was truly here. We went to visit a friend who owns an esoteric book store and bought some incense. We walked for a while in the Possum Run prairie which is a park we drove to on our way home. Gorgeous tall grasses swaying in the wind. The colors bleached out by the sun and a clear blue sky. The evening was clear and cool, perfect for a bonfire, burning said incense and carving the first pumpkin. Sure, maybe it's tad early. I love fall and Halloween though and want to stretch out the season as long as I can.

wolfman tiki

First pass at wolfman tiki.

Traditional Tiki

Stupid Creatures

I've seen this guys stuff before.
It's all hand made. Pretty fantastic stuff.
http://www.stupidcreatures.com/

Bone color glaze

Yes, I sculpted a bone out of clay. Just a test to see if I could mimic it. While the glaze turned out well, the underside that was unglazed has a really nice brittle bone texture.

What am I going to do with a bone you ask...(ok well maybe you didn't ask or just plain don't care...)

They'd make great Halloween stir sicks for drinks! Or a freakish paper weight.

Return of Frankentiki (part deuce)

My first Frankentiki mug... (actually, as a side note here, why do they never have mug handles? They're called Tiki mugs but they're more like Tiki tumblers really. There is never a "mug" handle. Why? I ask the Tiki Gods...why?)

Anyway, my first Frankentiki was more applique.  And my husband said "why didn't you carve the design into the mug?" Although it was a good point I think I didn't speak to him for a few days. I noticed he started wearing a shirt that said something like "the opinion's expressed here are not necessarily those of my wife." I'd never seen that shirt before...coincidence?!

So this is the carved green ware state of the "mug" before it's fired. I plan to glaze it green like the first one I posted.

Why a logo

Being a graphic designer I probably went a little over kill on my business cards, hang tags...etc.

I spent days messing with letters, icons and design crap! (I mean, really, I should get a life!)  A friend who had a letter press help me print them. So this is really just to have a package design for a product in my portfolio. And this blog is just so I learn to write...yeah, like it's gonna help.

Below is the final (highly unusable) logo in all of it's (unusable) glory on a hang tag.

I say unusable because the "bat A" REALLY does not translate into wet clay as a marking stamp. You live, you design, you learn.

Candy Bowl in progress

Working on a new technique (well, new to me I've seen similar stuff in craft shows.) Finished, it should be a nice stark black and white design. I can just picture the old black and orange wax wrapper candies inside. Mmmmm, candy...what a great holiday.

Brown Clay Bat

This is one of the bats I've made this last year. I really love Halloween and was hoping to sell these guys on Etsy or Artfire soon. They are in different poses (wings up or down) but I'm still working at perfecting a "look" for them. The other ones I made were more realistic, these have more of a stylized look to their features which I think works better.