Painting It

2015-12-05T11:28:00.001-05:00

I am almost ready to fire my kiln once more. After this load, I will have to put away the ceramic projects and move on to a fabric project and wood painting project....

2015-11-30T10:34:00.002-05:00

PAMDESIGN is featured in The Folt Bolt's' Art Stall' feature this month! Check it out!

The Folt Bolt is a wonderful website and Facebook page that features art and design eye candy in every colour shade and hue , featuring many artists and makers that express themselves with a lot of colour and texture. Check out The Folt Bolt for a variety of artists pages, colour themed idea boards and just over- all exuberant colour,
design, imagination, artisanship and creativity. I am very happy to be featured by it this month!

2015-11-29T21:29:00.004-05:00

Here are some highlights from the new pottery. These items are already listed at my ETSY shop.
This week I am hard at work, to fill the kiln one more time, before I have to put my ceramic work away, and begin some other painting projects for January.

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I am thrilled to see the results in the kiln this afternoon, after last nights firing!

There are many pieces here, it took a while to get enough to fill the kiln, in fact, I left the top shelf pretty bare, because I just wanted to see it all done!

I always feel very inspired to immediately paint MORE when I have such a good firing result.

The next load of pottery will be larger pieces, and wont take so long to fill up.... I love this time of year, its when I do most of my pottery painting, and its of course for teh holiday shopping season. If you see anything you like, drop me a line!!!!! I wont be able to post to my ETSY shop until later in December.

Of course, all this will be on display and available for PURCHASE for Sarasota, Florida peeps, December 12 and 13th at the Atomic Holiday Bazaar.

OK, back to the studio!!

2015-11-24T11:31:00.000-05:00

Follow me on Pinterest!

Here you can see recent work, and follow links to my ETSY shop. And share with you Pinterest followers! Thanks!

Pinterest is a great way to spend many hours a day looking at things!!!! I love it, even though I am appalled at the way time disappears down the rabbit hole when I indulge in looking at endless cool stuff.....

Here is the link to my For The Home Pinterest page, where I sometimes post my own work too.
https://www.pinterest.com/rattypam/for-the-home/

2015-11-17T14:36:00.004-05:00

How fitting that five years later I reactivate this blog at the same time of year I quit in 2011. Its time for Atomic Holiday Bazaar again, and here is THIS YEARS info and wonderful graphic.

www.atomicholidaybazaar.com

Sarasota peeps can enjoy the 10th (TENTH!!) year of this refreshing cultural phenomenon, coming in mid December. I participated in the first, and all subsequent Atomic Holiday Bazaars, and its my yearly dose of fresh air, I love every minute of it, especially for what it brings to the community. Hope to see you there!

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2015-11-17T14:04:00.001-05:00

Hello readers of this blog.
As you can see from the previous post, its been a few years since I updated. However, I still refer clients and friends to the large selection of of my work that is contained in this blog, from when I did keep it up.
It seems a shame to let it languish, so I will make the effort now to post from time to time, maybe even frequently. Stay tuned!!!! Here is some recent ceramic work of mine to look at:

This Weekend!!!

2011-12-09T23:05:00.001-05:00

Nuance

2011-12-07T13:37:00.001-05:00

After looking at my previous posting about this fabric sample for a while, I realized the fabric needed a whole lot more nuance and depth. It didn't have the mysterious gloaming quality I was looking for. Thank goodness for the electronic retrospect from looking at one's work on- line. I went back into the studio and darkened many areas, and added more blue and more of brown-y purple wine colour. Much better effect.

Clicking on the images will take you a slide show to larger pictures.

2011-12-07T12:41:00.001-05:00

This is a small fabric sample for a client..it will be for dining room chairs. As you can imagine, I certainly enjoy using all these colors and reflective effects.

This Weekend! December 10-11!!

2011-12-06T01:21:00.001-05:00

http://atomicholidaybazaar.blogspot.com/
I will be exhibiting both days!

New Cotton Shawls

2011-12-06T01:16:00.001-05:00


https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.290454564327747.71320.149610111745527&type=1 These lovely cotton shawls and scarves are woven by a men's collective in Java, Indonesia. They were a big hit last year, and I have had many requests for more. Hence a large selection at this years Atomic Holiday Bazaar, this weekend (December 10-11th). They are very fun to paint, especially the ones with the open work borders. The multiple square design ones are lively as well. You can see more photos and commentary on my Pamdesign face book page (link above). The scarves flow nicely, but also keep their shape and keep a perky crisp shape around the neck, which I personally like very much.

Click on the pictures to see a slide show of larger images.

New Cotton Shawls https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.290454564327747.71320.149610111745527&type=1

Very Large Kitchen Floorcloth

2011-12-06T01:07:00.001-05:00

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This is a very large, custom floorcloth for a kitchen. Since the shape is a bit special, I made a paper template to make sure it follows the contours of the cabinetry exactly.

It measures about 16 feet long, so finding a wall to stretch the canvas on was crucial. Luckily I was able to do that!

The design is very simple, however a lot of measuring and precision was part of the process, making a solid pattern I then could go over the top of with a lot of paint and texture.

Lemons are a theme in the Mediterranean style kitchen and adjoining dining room. They make a nice addition to the expanse of painted tile design.

Bathroom Floorcloth

2011-12-06T00:56:00.001-05:00

This bathroom floorcloth was designed to complement, not compete with or copy the sculpted tiles work around the shower bath and some other areas in the room.

I enjoyed using multiple glazes and loose, painterly effects on the waves. When a floorcloth can be painted no my work tables, (when it fits) I can have a lot of scope with the paint, more than when its painted vertically.

2011-12-06T00:51:00.001-05:00

http://atomicholidaybazaar.blogspot.com/

2011-12-06T00:47:00.001-05:00

I am having trouble placing a permanent link to the Facebook page, on the blog info section, but I can put it here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pam-Marwede-Is-Pamdesign/149610111745527https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pam-Marwede-Is-Pamdesign/149610111745527

Until I figure out a better way, I will just post it like this for a while.
Please visit my facebook page for Pam Design!

Another Big Catch Up:Pottery Painted In September

2011-12-06T00:21:00.001-05:00

I have been ignoring this blog in favour of the ever popular Facebook updates. Naturally, there are plenty of folks who prefer not to use Facebook, and so its quite unfair of me. In the next few posts I will attempt to get this worthy blog updated and current for Blog followers. My apologies!

Here you see part of the big push for winter/Xmas inventory. Lots of pottery. I also have painted a large selection of cotton shawls, coming in the next post!

All of this pottery is available at the upcoming Atomic Holiday Bazaar, December 10-11th, at the Sarasota municipal Auditorium.

Delft Influence Wont Go Away

2011-07-11T18:47:00.003-04:00

The painting of the Delft tile mural left me with a residual desire to keep drawing the fantastical and decorative flowers and birds I had put on the tiles... So I did a few large platter pieces, that seemed to be good places to work this thing out.

The backs of the platters have my more typical pattern work for backs of things... whilst the flowers on the fronts aren't so different from the stylised floral work I often put on pottery, anyhow.

Blue Tile Mural- "Delft" Style

2011-07-11T18:38:00.001-04:00

Tiles are so difficult to photograph. These are no exception.

The tiles are installed in a shower bath area.

Here they are on my work table, before firing and after firing.

Seashore Pillows Made up

2011-07-11T18:24:00.000-04:00

Here they are!

Small Pond Floorcloth

2011-07-11T18:09:00.002-04:00

Its a small pond on a small floorcloth!

Nevertheless, it turned out very nicely indeed, and will make a fine addition to the kitchen whence it is destined.

Seashore Pillows Finished

2011-04-30T21:14:00.005-04:00

Here is the final pillow in this project, the crab. And the stripe fabric is for the rope piping. It will be cut into 4 narrower strips for that.

I also did some more work on the turtle and the seahorse today, depening the shadows, especially on the seahorse, which was looking a bit flat.

And here is the crab. He is a fine fellow. Or lady.

Seashore Pillows

2011-04-30T17:11:00.007-04:00

This is what I am working on now. Four pillows depicting sea shore animals, some on land some from the water, and some that go back and forth! The fourth one, not finished
yet, and not shown here, is a crab.
The backs are stripped fabric, and there will be a fat, fabric covered piping around each one.

The pillows are commissioned based on a group of pillows I did some years ago. Its sort of hard, and then sort of easier to match previous work...in some ways, the new ones are much better. I like to think my skills improve...but the originals were very good too. Not requested this time around are the gull, the hogfish (wrass) and the view of the birds' feet on the sand. Have you ever seen how seabirds often stand on their own feet, and have trouble getting going walking from that pose? Pretty funny.

Painted Upholstry On Painted CAhir

2011-04-30T17:06:00.002-04:00

Some bright colours here- not for the faint hearted!!
I painted the striped fabric, and made the welting to cover the join of wood and fabric.

And its a very comfortable chair too!

Painted Chairs

2011-04-30T16:17:00.014-04:00

Earlier in the winter I painted a variety of wooden chairs, one with an upholstered seat.
They were all pretty much vintage, and the upholstered one, clearly an antique, probably late 19thC or early 20th C.

Actually this carved , below, one looks pretty old: maybe Art&Crafts, or "Bungalow" style, from the 20s or 30s.

Chairs are very fiddly; the rungs and spokes can drive you mad . They require a lot of patience and detailed observation.

These two are matching (well, sort of!) swivel chairs. Bar stool height.

It was a lot of fun painting them, and they are beginning to find happy homes!
I have some pictures of the upholstry up next.