A Happy Halloween From Michael W. Moses in Ocean Springs, MS

Wishing Everyone a Great and Ghoulish Halloween!

Well, Halloween is here once more and I have been busy doing all kinds of phrightening photos for the season.  The above image is one that I took the other day.  It is one of a pair of baby kitties that have cast a spell on a woman here in Ocean Springs and they are now both living with her and her family.  I am not sure if my two male cats are happy or not.  They tried to act like they did not care one way or another about the two little ones, but every time I turned around one (or both) of them were playing with them.  Well, they did not seem too upset over them being gone.  

Both of my cats spent most of the day today trying to keep me from doing work in my studio.  I have been doing so many things of late that I must frankly say that I have been negligent in doing my pottery.  I have about a dozen or so pieces that I need to paint and glaze and fire!  I have some interesting ideas rolling around in the back of my mind for future pottery pieces.  I hope in a week or so that I will be able to start up some new greenware and finish off some pieces that I have been working on.

Please remember that it's not how much candy that you get for Halloween, but how much you enjoy the process of getting it!

More New Ceramic Art Pottery by Michael W. Moses

I've been working to get some new greenware pieces ready to fire and I must say that it looks as if there will be some exciting new works coming out of this group.  I will hopefully have a few new finished pieces to show in the near future also.

Image of a Greenware Art Pottery Figurine of Cthulhu by Michael W. Moses

Today's post is a greenware work in progress. I usually do not show a lot of my works when they are in the greenware stage. Being just unfired clay, pieces at this stage are so fragile that it is just not worth making a permanent record of the piece. This one however just was begging for some photographs. It seemed so photogenic that I just had to take a couple of shots of it. Here is one of those shots. This image of a ceramic art pottery figurine of Cthulhu features a detail of a Victorian era leaded glass window as a background. This image was enhanced with a bit of sepia tone added with Photoshop. Once this piece is fired and painted I will post further images.