"Adventures first..."

Welcome! I am a ceramic artist and art lover who is particularly fond of figurative sculpture and illustration, printmaking, historical fashion, vintage photos and illustration, and fairy tales. Enjoy!

[a-l-ancien-regime]

Le Roy Jules (1856-1921)

Cats in a chest of drawers

© Musée La Piscine (Roubaix)

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Rastatt Castle (Schloss) Inside Ceiling Mosaic and statues

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The 18th Century room at the Met Museum

(by Evan Izer on Flickr)

[a-garden-of-earthly-delights]

Pair of Wall Lights, birds: 1662–1722, flowers and mounts: ca. 1750

[a-l-ancien-regime]

The Worship of Cupid

ca. 1775–90

After Jean Baptiste Huet I (French)

Probably woven at Aubusson Manufacture (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Opera Costumes from the time of Marie Antoinette French   late 1770’s.

“Galerie des Modes et Costumes Francais”

In the late 1700’s two print sellers in Paris decided to sell fashion plates of current fashions and costumes of the time.  They dubbed this plate series “Galerie des Modes et Costumes Francais” and started selling these plates sporadically from 1778 till 1787. 

Some are black and white only versions of the fashions, others are less crisp colorized versions and then there is the 1912 version by M. Paul Cornu.

The images  above are from the more modern 1912 version.  (via EKDuncan)

[a-l-ancien-regime]

Hôtel Le Marois — in Paris, France.

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 Musée Carnavalet  Paris 

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François Boucher  (1703 - 1770) 

The Arts and Sciences: Singing and Dancing, 1750-1752

oil on canvas

The Frick Collection

[a-l-ancien-regime]

Chateau Rose (by Level-EX)

[nevver]

You’re gonna like the way you look, Winnie Truong

[tehsara-blog]

"And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist."

Amanda Smith is a ceramic artist merging 2D with 3D. She received her MFA in 2008 from SJSU and is currently working in California.

[fer1972]

Paintings and Illustrations by Marianna Gartner

[fer1972]

iIllustrations by Olex Oleole (Artist on tumblr)

[lustik]

Motoki Hitomi​​ - Gallery MoMo via Artsy.

Lustik:  twitter | pinterest | etsy

[2headedsnake]

Virginia Mori

[craftalliance-blog]

CA Katy recently visited the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA to check out their new exhibition Transformation 9: Contemporary Works in Ceramics. The works pictured are just a few of the standouts from the exhibition, but there are many more great pieces on display. If you are in the Pittsburgh area, this show is definitely not to be missed. For more information, you can check them out at their website or right here on Tumblr.