Sunday 17 April 2011

Beetle from Missoula Potsketch Auction and ants for cups



http://www.theclaystudioofmissoula.org/pages/potsketch.html
This is my contribution to the Potsketch on-line Auction, which culminates next weekend with a fund-raising event in Missoula.

I have been drawing and painting ants prior to engraving, or carving them on cups: it helps to have drawn them a few times and to have sorted out just how many legs they have...



I have also seen some fine old trucks around Flagstaff, such as this one, parked on LeRoux Street. I am planning to do some linocuts of them.

3 comments:

bfreeceramics said...

hey. lookin good. here's some local beetle hype for you. the Mountain Pine Beetle has been ravaging the Pine trees of Montana for the last few years. Here's a quick article about it..but there's a lot more info out there if you're interested. Thousands and thousands of acres have been destroyed due to these little guys. And on the flip side, has left a lot of free pine for the wood fire people..hah..

bfreeceramics said...

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_cbff6fa8-069e-11df-adf4-001cc4c002e0.html

woodfirer said...

Interesting beetle - I will try and incorporate it on a cup - I have heard that they have a similar problem around Flagstaff.