I make a lot of pottery with elephants, and my best selling item of the last 25 years is an elephant mug, trunk down as the handle. Well, sure, yes, from time to time I make that trunk UP in a lucky curve :) #art#mastoart#clay#ceramics#pottery
Making hand-built mugs about the cycle of life and death and the hope of rebirth. You know, nothing heavy. Except they are stoneware, so they are kinda heavy. #art#handmade#ceramics
Whoa, such a warm welcome, so many nice people! Thank you everyone! Please keep recommending other artists to connect with :)
You asked me to share more about ceramics, so here it goes
I am trying new bowls, I call them nuts. This texture is obtained by applying slip (liquid porcelain) with a brush to the surface of the product. Very meditative process.
I took all this out of the kiln yesterday. Now sanding and glazing.
Maybe I'll have time to fire everything next week.
According to the study, “The apparent absence of pottery in Australia, as noted by early and more recent European observers… both reflected and was used to support, racist social evolutionary hierarchies characterizing Aboriginal societies as lacking cultural complexity.”
In an area just 90 x 90 cm, archaeologists found 82 pottery shards that are 2,950 to 1,815 years old.
Tired of insta and etsy, starting my mastodon journey today!
So let me do an #introduction post. I make ceramics and porcelain in a small studio in Berlin.
Sometimes practical, but mostly experimenting with the artistic side.
German and English are not my native, so expect me to translate a lot.
Like I was saying yesterday, there is cute, then make it smaller, and it is cutter! Small dogs on new mugs that I made :) #art#mastoart#clay#pottery#ceramics
Two views of a Mississippian period (ca. AD 900-1700) deep bowl with out-flared, flat rim from eastern Arkansas (Phillips 1939, Pl. 51 E1-E2). The lip is ticked (small vertical notches). The rim has 2 opposing offsets, each with an embossed dot, meant to represent a fish head & eye. #ceramics#Archaeology
There are few things which beats a wally close for making a great first impression. This one is in the Hyndland area of Glasgow. For those who don't know, a wally close is the communal entrance to a tenement which is lined with tiles, and often beautifully crafted ones.
All painted with underglaze, alongside the panda which was long overdue its coating as well. 🎨 Fingers crossed for the colours firing nicer than my first try 🤞
New art thread for 2024 starts here! This is a mostly daily thread with a different artist featured in each post, primarily modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing.
Homeware designs by pioneering British ceramicist Clarice Cliff, 1920s-30s, whose artistic, whimsical approach to commercial pottery revolutionized the industry and influenced generations of designers after her.