Antique Spanish Oil Jars I get a call from Brent at Eye of the Day. He’s stuck in traffic on the 405 freeway in L.A., and he could use a little help unloading a container that’s just arrived at the Port of Los Angeles. I get up from the potters wheel, wrap my clay in…
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The Simple Art of Collaboration: An Introduction to Sempleware
The Simple Art of Collaboration: An Introduction to Sempleware As an artist, if there is one thing I have always believed in it’s been the concept of collaboration. There is something very powerful, very organic that comes from two or more people coming together on one idea, like a symphony. Or consider the hundreds of…
The Rogue Garden: Preparing for El Nino
The Rogue Garden: Preparing for El Nino Rain, rain, go away…wait! No! Rain, rain, please stay…we need you, desperately! We all want it to rain here in California more than those outside the Southwest understand. As I am in traffic in either Southern or Northern California, I often wonder how we can keep watering our…
The Rogue Garden: Brent’s Test Kitchen
THE ROGUE GARDEN: Brent’s Test Kitchen Hey! All you hoity toity landscape designers—this blog’s for you! When my professional landscape design friends come to my home garden for the first time, they are usually thrown off balance by what they see: there are pots and containers everywhere. I constantly rescue or buy plants to try…
5 Tips for Winterizing Your Terracotta Pottery
5 Tips for Winterizing Your Terracotta Pottery To many people winterizing terra cotta pottery may seem like a completely irrelevant subject for discourse, but consider that you can add this information to your knowledge just IN CASE it ever gets cold enough to freeze. This is an actual problem for people with terracotta pots in…
A Day In the Life of a Ceramic Terracotta Commission Artist
Baked Earth: A Day In the Life of a Ceramic Terracotta Commission Artist It’s a random Tuesday afternoon in September of any year. I am sipping ginger tea and trying to figure out what to do with the tail end of an already long day, when the phone rings and it’s a number I don’t recognize….
