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Flatfish + pre & post firing glaze comparisons!!! Kilns perform such wild & magical alchemy <3

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Sarcoma aka Doomed Sarcoma (Czech, based Siberia, Russia) - Come On In, The Water's Fine, 2024, Paintings: Digital Art

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It’s too cold for my grail quest 😭

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Little Guys!

I had such a good time making the little glaze tester fellas (who will be out of the kiln in mere hours along w/all the flatfish & sphinxes & etc!) that I thought I'd do a few slightly more refined but still simple/silly ones. It's sort of like being able to sketch in-between bigger things, plus? Great way to use up awkward leftover lumps of clay!

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The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

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These guys (& a few more not pictured & a zillion glaze samplers) are getting into the Hot Place tomorrow! Pls be kind, Kiln Gods <3

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City Pigeons: now with underglaze!!! Absolutely can't wait to fire these guys.

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where are they off to?

watercolour and pencil crayon, from 2017.

can you tell how much gloranthan illustration i’d been doing that year?

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various birds

from the margins of a psalter written by leonhard wagner, illuminated by georg beck. augsburg, 1495

source: Augsburg, SuStB, 2° Cod. 49

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Trying to sell handmade crafts in this economy is so. Like. Hey guys I know we're all broke as fuck but do you want my silly little things. I'm very good at it. For the time it takes to make them + skill + materials it's gonna be 30$ per silly little thing. But also shipping costs 12$ for reasons outside my control so it's actually 42$ now. Sorry. No I really can't charge less than that. Yeah I know. Ok. Bye

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Nature valentines.

Thanks to my Patrons for your support.

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Holy shit you guys?! That was maybe my quickest shop update yet...all the wee fellas were snapped up in less than 30mins and, as always, I'm totally flabbergasted!

Thank you for welcoming these little weirdos into your homes <3

I'm working away at glazing the next batch of beasts right now (well, up until 10mins ago, now I'm taking a bit of time to zone out before the weekend is over, plus I have an episode of Pottery Throwdown to watch!!), so keep an eye out for another shop update in the next couple of months.

Again, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!

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one more reblog as the update approaches. thanks for all the enthusiasm, pals! <3

Surprise(ish) shop update!! Since the tariffs (btwn Canada & the US) have been put on hold*, I'm sneaking this assortment of wee guys from the last few batches of pottery into my shop & opening the thing THIS SUNDAY (February 9) at 4pm est!

I know that things are A Lot, so it feels a bit funky to be selling ceramic weirdos in these times, but hey! Maybe they'll bring a bit of joy?!

Here are a few more sneak peeks, see the shop for the rest (descriptions/measurements coming soon!):

*I'm sincerely hoping that they never come into effect, at least at the 25% rate that was threatened, but who even knows these days?!