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An animal originally designed by M.C. Escher. First introduced to the world in Curl-up (wentelteefje) and subsequently used in House of stairs. Technique: Modelled by hand. |
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A pot with a text in the Korean alphabet saying aproximately: "andre linnenbank pot nummer een" (André Linnenbank pot nr. 1) although they of course don't have a separate "L" and "R" so it might just be andle rinnenbank. Technique: Free hand. build up one ring at a time. |
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A Takahe is a flightless New Zealand bird. I had already put it on the cover of my thesis. Met a couple at Tiritiri Matangi and named my main machine at home after it. So it was logical to create one in clay. Technique: Modelled by hand. First made a rough solid model. Then cut into two and hollowed it out. Put it together again and added the legs and pedestal. Then the legs broke off. Painted it and glued it together |
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Korora or little blue penguin. Another New Zealand bird. It is also the name of the big Linux box at work. Technique: Made a rough solid model first. Used that to create a mold. Used the mold to get a new copy and added wings and feet. Then painted it. This was my third attempt, the first two broke somewhere during the process. Technique: Modelled by hand. |
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The Kea is yet another New Zealand bird. This one is a parrot that lives in the mountains. Known for being very intelligent and having the same name as my godmother, for who I made this clay model. Technique: Modelled by hand. |
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The Saddleback
is in the the logo of the Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi.
There is also a saddleback type ECG in the context of Brugada Syndrome.
In this statue it is sitting atop a represenation of a typical changing ECG caused
by the infusion of a sodium channel blocker in a family member of a Brugada patient.
It is intended as a challenge cup in the group for the last person that gets a paper
on Brugada syndrome accepted for publication.
Technique: Modelled by hand. Current winner: A.S. Amin |
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The triceratops is a wellknown dinosaur. Made for my grandson. When I had some spare time I added a smaller one in red clay. Technique: Modelled by hand. Fired in Raku style. |
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Treefrog. |
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The Death of Rats AKA the Grim Squeaker. A comical character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld serie. Technique: Modelled by hand. |
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Created for a friend who plays oboe, has a ship called kingfisher (in Frisian), does research with omega-3 fatty acids fed pigs, and has a nickname that sounds like caterpillar (in Dutch). Technique: Modelled by hand. |
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Who said you can only make round objects on a potter's wheel? I did try to do as much wrong as I could and still get an interesting shape. Technique: Potters wheel. |
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A jug. I saw some vases with holes in the upper part. I wanted to do something with that. Only, you can't do that with functional jugs. Or can you? I didn't know at that time that someone beat me to it. Mine works different from that description. Technique: Modelled by hand. |
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Compound vase for tulips or other small flowers. Technique: It started with a design in blender and POV-Ray to see if it could work. Then I modelled the central and periferal vases by hand, chnaging the design a bit. Then I made plaster molds unfortunately destroying the originals. Fired in Raku style. |
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Another compound vase, too small for flowers. Technique: I wrote a matlab program to design 6 fold symmetric compound vases using splines. This generated the inside and outsides of the two different shape and these were added together in Blender. The resulting shapes were exported to a 3D printer that made a plastic version of them. As usual molds were made and clay casts were made. |
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Tuatara, a living fossil from New Zealand. Made for R.J. Oostra as a gift at his inauguration as professor of Anatomy and Embryology in particular Clinical and Comparative Morphology. He knows why. |
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One in a series of friendly faces. |
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Ideal Easter gift for someone that works on the cochlea. Alternatively for someone that does not listen. Pun does not translate to English, so I won't try. |
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Scottish highlander cow. Unglazed and unpainted red and white clay. We have a park with a small herd of Scottish highlanders closeby. |
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