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Tile Backing for Wood Stove
This is the tile wall behind a wood stove that an acquaintance installed in his house. I also made the field tiles surrounding the art tiles. It will be featured in the next quarterly issue of Alaska Home magazine. The … Continue reading
Posted in Tile Installations, Uncategorized
Tagged Alaska, Anchorage, art tile, glacier clay, Wood Stove
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Two-Inch Pendants
These are recent tests for a two-inch size pendant. None sold at the Colorado Indian Market last month, but I’ll see how they do this summer. If they didn’t have holes, they could be tiles. To be installed with tiles, … Continue reading
Portugese Camino
Walked the Portuguese Camino with my 85 year old Father and two younger sisters, Dorothy in the middle and Karen on the right. Dorothy has a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford and Karen is a civil engineer with the … Continue reading
Sailorboy Pilot Bread
Six-inch Square, Sailorboy Pilot Bread Art Tile, $75 Originally made this design as one of the thirteen 12″ tiles for Nana Development Corporation, one of the many native alaskan owned businesses that are fairly common these days. I can’t tell … Continue reading
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Glaze Tests
I Haven’t posted in over two months, and I thought the summer was too busy. This post will be on the technical side, and you can skip the first part if you like. Three of the tiles, with small white … Continue reading
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Several New Designs
Here are several new designs: dragonfly, new seal, walrus on the top row, a swan turning into a salmon, muskox, and pendants on the second row, and on the fourth row a single owl, and an bald eagle. It’s been … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska tile, Arctic, art tile, eskimo, glacier clay, Hand made, Inupiaq, Musk ox, Owl, Walrus
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Rarely Made Tiles
These six tiles are rarely made. They are all six-inch square. They are a flying owl, blue heron, seals, single seal, cicada, and an early version of the double salmon. I’m kind of likeing the old double salmon now that … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginal, Alaska tile, Anchorage, Arctic, art tile, blue heron, ceramic tile, cicada, collagraph, glacier clay, salmon, seal
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Nephew’s Tile and a Poem
My Nephew Mark in Chicago designed this toucan bird tile. It’s his third design, the previous two were a cheeta and an american bison. During my arts and crafts shows he draws something and I make a tile from it. … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginal, Alaska, art tile, Emily Dickenson, New England, Poem
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BIA Providers Conference
I haven’t posted in over a month! Where does the time go? So I did the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) Providers conference selling my art tiles from December 2-5. I was between a couple of real artists. The gentleman … Continue reading
Latest Kiln Load
Getting ready for the Anchorage Museum Thanksgiving Crafts Fare. The loon is a four-by-four square inch tile and the necklace pendants are maybe 1-1/4″ squarish pieces. The glyph stamps are fishes, fox, stars, eagle, letters, seal, owl, and the crazy … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginal, Alaska, Alaska tile, Anchorage, glacier clay, Glyph, Hand made, Inupiaq, necklace, Pendant
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