Michael W. Moses and the 2015 Coastal Treasures Mississippi Gulf Coast Spring Pilgrimage

I was chosen to create a piece of art for the 2015 Coastal Treasures Mississippi Gulf Coast Spring Pilgrimage. This year is the 63rd and it will feature home and garden tours of some of the most beautiful places on the Gulf Coast.

To the left is the finished image that the Mississippi Gulf Coast Council of Garden Clubs, Inc. selected.

If you go to their Spring Pilgrimage website you can see what the finished card looks like with the added writing and find out more information about the 2015 Spring Pilgrimage.

If you are interested in learning a little more about this image Click here.

Oh, and by the way I am not just doing art for the 2015 Spring Pilgrimage, I am also their web designer and  a proud member of the Gulf Hills Garden Club!
 

The Tumtum Tree Incubator, Ceramic Art Pottery by Michael W. Moses, Ocean Springs, MS

My newest piece of hand sculpted ceramic art pottery is called the "Tumtum Tree Incubator".
This hand crafted work of art is a mixed media piece that is comprised of a pottery piece that has been lavishly embellished with a large wire and a glass beadwork armature. Is this some type of an alien tableau or glimpse of life from under the deep tropical waves?  Who is really to say?  All I know is that....

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.

Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll

 So look and see what is so grand
A peice from clay that I have wrought
And painted oh so bold and free
A moment of time bought

Nonsense
by Michael W. Moses

Burma Shave!

Blue and White Delft Style Hand Painted Vases by Michael W. Moses, Ocean Springs, MS

A while back I did a piece that involved a hand sculpted bottle that had a blue and white design called "Alien Nafaar unguentarium", that I featured just a few posts back as having been sold.

I started thinking about how some of my earliest ceramic pieces were simple blue and white works that were in a modified Delftware style.

I thought it would be interesting to create a few new pieces in the Delft manner.
I was a bit leery about using a pre made blanks, but it was brought to my attention that it really did not matter who made the canvas that a painting is painted on. It was the painting that was important, not the canvas. This seems to make sense to me so, I went ahead and purchased a few commercially available blank vases and got to work painting them.

Here are the first two of these new pieces. They are undreglaze painted with my original free hand designs. These are not transferware, they are each a one of a kind hand painted work of art.

 

 

I have started a few more pieces that I will post as I have them finished.

Last week I started some new hand sculpted pieces that are now covered with plastic and are slowly drying on the rack. In about a week or so I will take each piece and start all the intricate hand stamping. Then They will have to be put back on the drying rack and left to very slowly dry out completely before being fired in the kiln.

"Come to me my Love" Pod Vase by Michael W. Moses of Ocean Springs, MS

Here is one of my newest pieces of hand sculpted ceramic art pottery, which I call the "Come to me my Love" alien pod vase.

 This piece looks as if it might have been captured just above high tide on a delightful tropical beach on an alien planet far from our everyday lives!

Then again it has that organic quality that makes it seem to be some type of quasi animal-plant life that hungers for small creatures to come forth and give themselves up to it's desires.

Then again this type of life form may not passively wait for good things to arrive in it's presence, it may actively go out on the prowl looking for the unwary.

What ever the case, this neo Victorian objet d'art will be the master of whatever domain it will be placed, be it your bright conservatory or a cool shady curio cabinet in your front parlor. This piece will surely be the dominate species in any setting!

SOLD! Michael W. Moses' First Three Pieces of Ceramic Art Pottery at "Persnickety" of Madison, MS

Well, just to update a bit. If you were interested in the following three pieces of my ceramic art pottery you are to late.  All three pieces have already been sold at "Persnickety" of Madison, MS! All three works sold on the same day that we did the initial installation. Not bad for a first day at a new location.  See also my previous blog entry to see these pieces in situ in their case at "Persnickety".

 Orange Blue Mellon Bowl by Michael W. Moses

Yellow Red Dot Tea Cup and Stand by Michael W. Moses

Yellow Red Dragon Fruit Pod Vase by Michael W. Moses

I would like to invite the purchaser to submit photos of these pieces once the have been placed in their new home, to me, and I will include them on this blog as an update to this post.

Also just to inform you, I have some new pieces that are fresh out of the kiln and I will be posting some images of them during the up coming week. Stay tuned!