Category Archives: 4″ Tile

Loon

4″ x 4″ x 3/8″ Loon, collagraph print on Cook Inlet glacial clay, multiglaze cone 6 oxidation. Read up on the loon while designing the tile. Old time Inupiaqs would put a loon skull in a persons grave because it … Continue reading

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Caribou

4″ x 4″ x 3/8″ Caribou, multiglaze, cone 6 oxidation, Cook Inlet glacier clay. Hand printed from a collagraph plate. Done in the x-ray style common to the coastal peoples of Alaska. Sea mammals were the main food staple of … Continue reading

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Birch Leaves, Impression on Tile

4″ x 4″ x 3/8″, Birch leaves, unglazed natural Cook Inlet glacial clay, slip, mason stains, cone 6 oxidation. $30.

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Raven (four-inch, facing left)

Raven, facing left, 4″ x 4″ x 0.4″, multiglazed, cone 6 oxidation, Cook Inlet glacier clay. $35 Used a nice creme breaking red for the background. Ravens are one of Anchorage’s winter birds and are fun to watch. They hang … Continue reading

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Moose

Moose, 4″ x 4″ x 0.4″, multiglazed, x-ray style, cone 6 oxidation. $35 A collagraph plate is used to print the raised black lines which when waxed act as a separator to the glazes.

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Quaking Aspen & Feather Impression

Alaska glacier clay with leaf and feather impression. Continue reading

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Leaf Impressions

Four separate leaf impressions, each 4″ x 4″ x 3/8″ on Cook Inlet glacier clay with crystalline glazes. Cone 6 oxidation. I pick the leaves from the local dog park in Anchorage where I walk our American bull dog. The … Continue reading

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