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Hi everyone,

I haven't created many pieces featuring koalas so I thought it was about time for one.

This is a wheel thrown vase with hand sculpted porcelain kookaburra, koala, branches and leaves.

This piece was thrown on the wheel then altered, the base was applied in the leather hard stage and the hand sculpted kookaburras, branches and leaves were then applied. It was then hHand painted with underglazes and high fired twice

My own design, this is a wheel thrown then altered dish with 4 little hand sculpted kookaburras.

Ned kelly in porcelain clay

Hand sculpted from porcelain clay, this black cockatoo is 24cm tall

19cm high porcelain clay

This piece is approximately 19cm high, hand sculpted one of a kind

These bird sculptures are all hand crafted & one of a kind, sculpted from porcelain clay they are around18-20cm tall

This one is a little different to any I've created before.

6 little magpies sitting in a tree... bud vase 11cm tall

Kookaburra, galah, cockatoo and Major Mitchell, porcelain clay minis

This is my first one of these.

If this little owl family grows any larger they will have to find a new tree.

wheel thrown porcelain pin dish with 5 little kookas

One of my latest sculptures, possum on a tree stump. one of a kind :)

This little bud vase was thrown on the wheel and then altered by adding branches and leaves. I then hand sculpted the three little magpies and attached them using liquid clay, fired it twice in my kiln (1280 degC) and beautiful porcelain is formed.

3 little kookas on a log, just 2 inches tall

Suddenly all of the birds in my garden scatter.. you only have to look up to see the reason why

I think these must be the funniest little fellows in the bird world, they are so aggressive towards each other and have such short tempers, here's a shot I took of two having an altercation on the fence.

This little kookaburra pin dish was made by coiling clay and wrapping it around a circle, I've added some kookaburras and a little frog which so far the kookas haven't noticed

This is Eric the emu.. a regular visitor to our front yard. Eric just loves clover.

Notice Eric has kindly left us some emu fertilizer

Our back fence is the boarder to the national park and so we have many wildlife visitors, my favourites are the kookaburras of course and once you get to know them you discover they have quite mischievious personalities (such as bringing down all of my crystals and using them to play kooka football) I've snapped hundreds of photos of all types of birds but just had to get some shots of the hopeful crow.

Kooka has found himself a piece of meat (probably pinched from next doors dog bowl) but isn't eating it, he's just sitting on the fence holding it in his beak, crow has landed beside him thinking he has a chance at the meat and does a funny little dance trying to persuade the kooka to hand it over, it was hard to take the photos as it looked so funny, here are a few of the shots.

This is my first wall plaque, he is quite large (23cm high) and he was created by first rolling out some clay, then drawing a kookaburra on a log shape, I then rolled out more clay and added the wings to give a 'relief' look, I added bits of clay to the head for feathers and rolled some more clay for his tail feathers. He was then allowed to dry, painted with underglaze and fired twice (the 2nd firing the clear glaze was added to provide a permanent protective glossy finish)

Thanks for looking :)

This one is a little taller than the black cockatoo

Just had to include some photos of some real kookaburras that regularly visit our garden

This is mum and dad

and one of the two babies... isn't he adorable

This little fellow was created using a technique I recently learnt, bisque high, glaze low (usually it is the other way around) however I'm very pleased with the result, the colours are richer and there are no runs.

Two little cattle dogs driving the ute while the farmer sits in the back :)

This little one is only 3 inches long & 1.5 high

Female black cockatoo

and a possum

This little fellow is about 6cm high

This is my first ever wheel thrown piece, a small dish (approx 6.5cm wide) and I've added a couple of my hand sculptured owls (just to make sure one person doesn't eat all the M&Ms)

Thanks for looking :)

This one's quite deep and will hold lots of paper clips

This is a "tea light candle" holder (but could be used for pins or next to the bed to hold rings and necklaces at night)

Ok, couldn't help myself... and some more kookaburras

Thanks for the comments that people left previously, for some reason I can't respond, I click on the link but nothing happens :(

Have fun & thanks for looking :)

Tiny miniature sculpture, Kelpie and Border Collie driving the old farm ute while the bewildered farmer sits in the back.

this will be listed tomorrow (12th)

thanks for looking :)

Hooray, my kiln has been fixed... here are some of my new miniature sculptures.

 Here are my latest miniature paintings, will be listing in the next couple of days

Hi Everyone,

Well I'm afraid I'm not much of a talker, and don't really like talking about myself but they say a picture paints a thousand words which is great, because I'm into painting (and sculpting)

So I thought I'd post some of my paintings here from time to time, I've been painting miniature paintings called ACEOs which are a quite a craze in the US and just starting to take off here. They are miniature original works of art, the size of baseball cards, fun to collect. You can have a gallery of original artworks right there on your  coffee table. To find out more about them type ACEO into the eBay search field.

For my sculptures I use porcelain or earthenware clay to hand build & sculpt my tiny miniature figurines, which are mostly of animals and fire them in my high fire kiln.

The main thing is to have fun, thanks for stopping by. :)

Anita