A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a couple in South Dakota to make a series of tiles honoring all of the dachshunds and dachshund mixes they’ve owned through the years. I made several versions of Malie (above) using a few different underglaze colors and a few different clay bodies. They ultimately chose a terracotta underglaze on a porcelain clay. I plan to post the series of eight tiles when they have been installed and photographed by the owners. This project made me realize that I really should be offering other colors, besides black for my Scratching Dogs Etsy site https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScratchingDogs.

In addition to black, I’ve added reddish brown, terracotta, and Royal Blue to start. These are portraits of Diamond, a Pitbull mix recently adopted from the Seattle Humane Society http://www.seattlehumane.org.

While working on the dachshund series, my kids reminded me that I had not carved a portrait of Louie yet so I made a couple of Louie tiles too (Louie is the Shih tzu/Chihuahua mix that we adopted from Homeward Pet a few months ago). http://www.homewardpet.org