2013 - 2014

Wave Block Pattern, Digital Art, Pattern 1, 2013

Wave Block Pattern, Digital Art, Pattern 2, 2013

Wave Block Pattern, Digital Art, Pattern 3, 2013

Wave Block Pattern, Digital Art, Pattern 4, 2013

Wave Block Pattern, Digital Art, Pattern 5, 2013

Wave Block Pattern, Digital Art, Pattern 6, 2013

Wave Block Pattern, Digital Art, six versions, 2013

Digital recreation of the logo for the Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club, 2013

I completed a "tracing" of the logo (below left) to provide the club with a black and white vector drawing of the logo for use in stationery, clothing and merchandise

Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club Logo Original

Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club Building Sign

Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club Logo, framed

Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club Logo, earlier version

Far Left: Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club Logo Original

Left: Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club Building Sign

Right: Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club Logo, framed

Far Right: Sherbrooke Snowshoe Club Logo, earlier version

Christmas Ribbon, Digital Art, 2013

Left: Kitchen Flower Tiles - A set of the finished tiles, laid out on a table, 2014

Right: Set of Kitchen Flower Tiles, Installed as Backsplash, 2014

Tracing over a scan of the sketch with Adobe Illustrator, 2006

Painting glaze on tiles

Tiles ready to go into the kiln

Finished tile

Far Left: Tracing over a scan of the sketch with Adobe Illustrator, 2006

Left: Painting glaze on tiles

Right: Tiles ready to go into the kiln

Far right: Finished Tile

I don't have any training as a ceramic artist, but friends of mine from GALA had a ceramic arts group and I joined them, at first just to hang out and watch them work. I found out you could paint glaze on pre-made white ceramic tiles. I wanted to avoid uniformity of the tiles and preserve the handmade appearance, so I drew the design on each tile by hand with a pencil and a circle template. I then painted each tile with three layers of underglaze and two coats of glaze. It was really relaxing to sit there and paint each tile slowly while listening to my friends talk about the ceramics they were working on. My friends helped me paint the final coat of glaze and fired the tiles for me. It became a running joke in the group at how long this took me. I started the project in 2005 and I hadn't finished enough tiles for the backsplash until 2014.