Itty Bitty City is a collection of sculptural Tiny Houses for your table or garden. Complete with skylights, solar panels, and mid-century modern touches to old fashioned classics these little homes make for fun and unique decor for you or to gift a friend. All are made with scrap/recycled insulation
Mosaics aren’t just for your floors or walls. Adorn yourself with them too! Micromosaic jewelry has been around for centuries so I hope you will join me in celebrating the 4000 year old art form of mosaics with a little piece of your own! Unlike the filati used in antique mosaic
Several years back, during a particularly troubling episode of depression and creative-block, I posted on Facebook about needing ideas to help get me “unstuck”. One of my friends’ friends, whom I have never met, but was a designer I followed online, suggested a great exercise that I have continued to
I began making clay things when I was 5, under the direction of a lovely woman named Mrs. Sweet, who I’d met through the Bartlesville Art Association in Oklahoma. She was what I would now call an “old hippie-lady”, but was likely not much older than I am now. She
Home is where the heart is, but a house is not necessarily a home. During the Covid 19 pandemic I have been pondering the concept of home vs. house, as all of us nestle into our dwellings to attempt to stay safe. For some, this is a new reality, for
Plants, flowers, sprouts, growing things of all kinds have been sources of inspiration to me for as long as I can remember. I used to collect seeds and seed pods by the grocery-sack full just to be able to run my hands through their cool smoothness. I would collect piles
I can’t believe how much time has passed since my last post, but life has been FULL! Work on the mural continues pretty much everyday and I am doing my best to try and get it up on the wall before July. (But no promises! I can only move so fast.)
Karen Rycheck is a ceramic artist creating one-of-a-kind works of whimsey to bring joy to your everyday living. Her work can be found at craft shows and the Memory Den PDX.
