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
I blew my beer and wine budget for a couple of months with this exceptionally tactile pot from Fiona Morris. I was curious as to how difficult the firing was. Apparently very…
She was delighted when we asked whether we could pick it up - apparently too few people do that. Worth the experience, it adds so much.
Often, we want everything to match, to look the same, to be part of a set that goes together.
But it is so much easier, and can be just as beautiful, when things don't match, don't look all the same -- when each piece, though it shares characteristics with others, does not look like an exact copy of the rest.
Was fiddling around with a new pair of glaze schemes and also thinking that pear shaped makes a good mug style...just out of my kiln :) #art#mastoart#pottery#ceramics#clay
A raw, unfired teapot I just finished: the thing that is on my mind is how can you take a fully functional item and add some fun to it, which doesn't reduce the practical and utilitarian function of it? So, a teapot with some dogs formed on the sides, just a globe, handle, spout and lid :) #art#mastoart#ceramics#pottery#clay
Familiar studio glaze over a new clay body. Wow! It drew out caramel, molasses, gold, and carnelian on this mug. I made it for an upcoming sale but it is going in my cabinet.
The trading posts in #Gallup are impressive. With Zuni Pueblo, the Navajo Nation, and Hopi in close proximity, the density of artistic talent in the immediate area is impressive.
For the first time in a while #pottery went okay and I (a) was able to go physically and emotionally and (b) am not leaving horribly disappointed at what I did. Also I threw some weird (hopefully gaiwan lid) things off the hump which was my first time trying to throw anything off the hump (they look like little floppy plates because I can’t cut level).