Popular Dog Breeds – New From Shepherds Grove Studio!

Dog breed wine stoppers from shepherds-grove.com
New Dog Breed Designs for Fall 2014.

With the Holidays just around the bend, I have found myself busy (and thankfully so) filling orders from my website and Etsy shop.  But I have also taken some time to add several new dog breed designs, and color variations of existing dogs, to my line-up.  And so far, they’ve been enthusiastically received.  The new dogs that I have added are:

  • Shih Tzu with puppy cut – white with grey
  • Yorkshire Terrier with puppy cut;
  • Pomeranian – red, black
  • Papillon – red and white, black and white;
  • Pug – black, fawn
  • French Bulldog – fawn with mask and solid fawn
  • Siberian Husky
  • Dachshund – red smooth
  • Boston Terrier – black and white
  • Australian Shepherd – tricolor
  • German Shepherd – black
  • Doberman Pinsher – red and rust
  • Greyhound – black color
  • Mastiff – fawn color
  • Great Dane – fawn, harlequin
  • Poodle with show cut – black, white
  • Shetland Sheepdog – sable
  • Pit Bull – brown and white

The above dog breeds are available on wine stoppers and mugs, though I have a little work to do to get all of my items listed on my website. Currently all dog wine stoppers are listed and most of the dog breed mugs.  I will be making mugs with my new dog breeds and color variations in the next week and so will have all of the above listed breeds and colors photographed and listed very soon.  If  you are looking for one of the above listed breeds/colors but don’t see on my website, contact me and I’ll be happy to help you out.

 

 

 

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Get to Work – Summer’s Over

Dante the German Shepherd and Fall foliage.
Dante, the Shepherd of Shepherds Grove, greets Fall. Photo by Audrey Albertini

We are well into the first week of September – Summer, for all intensive purposes, is over.  I had a great Summer, as usual, filled with traveling and family.  Dante traveled with us on most of our trips – it’s so nice having him along.

There was some work going on behind the scenes at Shepherd Grove, even with all of the summer fun, though little had to do with the hands-on making of my  stoneware pottery.  Most of the work was of the design nature and had to do with adding new dog breed designs to my line up.  For this I enlisted the help of a wonderful artist named Kathy Stieter to do some of the preliminary sketches and I did some too.

The design work has several stages.  First, a sketch is done, then it is cleaned up.  It gets painted and made into a decal with my ceramic decal printer.  Then test firing is done on glazed tiles to make sure the colors turn out well on the finished piece.   I love the process of taking my ideas and making them into my finished dog themed pottery.  And my printer is awesome.  The quality and durability of the artwork decal is amazing once it has been fired.

At this point, I have many dog sketches, several of which have been finalized and a few of which have been painted.  This week I will attempt to finalize all the sketches and painting as many as I can. I’m very excited about these new doggies – many have been requested by folks on the Shepherds Grove Facebook Page.

I hope all of you are transitioning well into Fall.  I just feels like the right place to be and hope that’s the case for you too.

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