Day 13 - Straw-fired clay cat

[vilakins]

Considering the date, I should have done something Black Friday-related for naarmamo but I couldn't think of anything, so here's another of my cat ornaments. I bought this elegant cat a while back, then my brother, who had never seen it, gave me a vase done in the same style and colours. It was hard to get the parts where it was wrapped in straw in the kiln right, but this gives an idea of what it's like. It's 23cms / 9' tall and stands by my Art Deco lady who's about twice the height.

Straw-fired clay cat



My NaArMaMo 2010 Gallery is here.

Comments

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful sculpture! You have quite a collection of cat ornaments.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I do! I have many more too, including plushies.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

I like the blending of colours here.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I should have done it after dark though because I now have it by a lamp and the shadows show its shape so much better.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's beautiful.

I did do some black cat icons, but yours is more artistic... :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I could have drawn a curled-up black marble cat I have! I didn't think of her. :-(

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Do her today!!!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I will! It's still the 13th elsewhere. :-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I've got one of the cat pictures I found yesterdayleft over - a decidedly unspooky one, but I liked it - so I'm going to do something with it :)

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

It looks like a lovely ornament. I really love the shaping and textures around the hindquarters - you've done an excellent job there.

You'll have to start a gallery for the drawings of your ornaments, so we can admire the collection.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Good idea! I could do that. :-)

[pet-lunatic.livejournal.com]

That's lovely! The texture is so realistic. It really feels like I could reach out and pick it up.

Didn't get the chance to comment the other day, but I loved your Og-Yeti too :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! She is slightly rough on the straw-fired bits.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

The color is gorgeous and I like the way you added the shadow, very dramatic.

(Hah. I too have a cat icon!)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And that's a gorgeous icon! What beautiful little kittens.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Marvelous, I love the subtle shaping of the features and the combination of shine for glaze and roughness for texture. If you put several of your cat ornament drawings together in one frame with a contrasting color behind all of them (like putting up notes on a board) it'd be great to hang in your home.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've had some of them on the wall; every year now I get a calendar made of a selection of my naart. :-)

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Very nice. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)