I just finished this earthenware china “Roundabout” cob. Now he’s a British native pony (will leave the actual breed up to the new owner to choose). The piece has been customized from the original by adding braided mane, tail, and forelock, and light feathering to the legs. He is glazed a rich “classic” bay with two small socks, star and snip.

This piece is a donation to the North American Model Horse Shows Association’s North American Nationals show benefit auction.  It is an online auction so you don’t need to be there in person next month to bid on him.

Here is the direct link to the NAN auction info:

http://www.namhsa.org/nan2014/auction.htm

It’s a good cause, so I hope you will consider bidding on this really gorgeous one-of-a-kind Roundie!

Last fall Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig took a greenware Roundabout Cob cast, and gave it a “total body makeover”. She resculpted the entire surface while the piece was in unfired greenware and made it into a grade-y draft gelding.  She handed it over to me and I just finished glazing it. Here is the result.

 

I’ve just completed glazing this piece, and it is now at auction on the MyAuctionBarn site. It ends on Saturday.

Here is the screamingly cute “OLIVER”, sculpture of a Halflinger foal created in 2010 by Sarah Minkiewicz-Breunig. He has been molded for ceramics and cast by Lesli Kathman in earthenware. Lesli confirms that only THREE Olivers have been glazed to date, so that makes this one is #4. A very very rare piece for the collector, indeed!

Oliver in earthenware china stands 4″ tall and is 3 3/4″ long. I’ve been using the nickname “Tripod” while I was glazing him, because he stands on three legs with the front ones crossed. He’s got his little baby tongue sticking out and is seriously to-die-for equine cuteness personified.

I have finished this guy in glossy, using an oveglaze painting technique and the highest quality, vibrant and permanent overglaze colors. The colored glazes are fired INto the clear gloss glaze surface at a kiln temperature of 1325°. He took 4 passes through the kiln to complete. He is a baby-bay tobiano pinto. He is marked “kyg 2014” on the belly, to let you know I glazed him. No room for anything else there! 🙂

This is the Auction Direct Link.

You can see all of Oliver’s photos here.

Thank you!

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Happy Holidays to all my wonderful friends, clients, and followers. You are very important to my creative heart. I hope I can be more productive in 2014, but wow life is just so interesting and full right now that studio time is just one of many things I am humbly grateful for.

Safe travels if you’re going away this week, and my best wishes to you for a healthy and happy new year.

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Post update: SOLD!

I’m doing a little collection-assessment and came across this piece which I decided to find a new home for. This is my “Streetwise” Quarter Horse gelding sculpture from 2002. This is a very rare one of only 4 pieces that exist made on a bone china base. There were 3 pieces created this way and painted by Alchemy Ceramics, marked as artist proofs, back when we were planning the edition in 2003. I still own one of the three test colors (buckskin tobiano). The long bone china bases proved very difficult in production (they all warped a bit), and that’s when I decided to produce the bone china pieces without the china base. I glazed each one and then glued it to a transparent plexiglas base instead.

This is the only Streetwise on the china base that was also glazed/finished by me, in 2003. It is very early glazing work for me; one of the first I ever finished. I actually started it while I was in England learning how to paint with overglazes at the Alchemy studio. I brought it home and finished it in my (brand-new) kiln. This grey pinto is all hand-done, with a lot of pretty directional hair-texture look in the grey areas. It has my Westerly Ceramics old logo (now new again, ha ha) on the underside of the base and on the belly of the horse. The base is warped just a little bit but it doesn’t wobble or anything. It is in pristine condition, and because there’s so much white the beauty of the bone china really comes through.

A complete set of photos can be seen in this ALBUM.

He has a NAN card in custom glazed breed halter good through 2017. Own a little piece of Westerly Ceramics history! I’m asking $700.00 postage paid to anywhere.

Contact me if interested. Thank you!

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