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small unfired badger family

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A second version of that first one

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I took part in the @womenincomicsminibang (mini bang focused on comics women characters), and illustrated @jokewishes ' DC fic (the story is centered on Huntress, mostly). Also on AO3: Art, fic.

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another dramatic sheep

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So I take pictures of my sculptures. And I was looking over the pics I'd taken, and. I couldn't resist.

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More glazes tests:

the black clay did something weird with my previous transparent glaze, making it full of small bubbles (first pic, left sample), so I did tests, and the matte glaze is weird too - in a different way - (first pic, right sample - though that one is weird all the time not just with that clay) but I found another glaze that does not make any bubbles, and if not applied too thick even keeps the clay nicely dark (second pic)

It seems like a not-unusual issue with black clays: apparently they contain manganese, which releases gas at higher temperatures that white or red clay, which I assume if the glaze is still setting makes the bubbles. I'm not sure why one glaze worked where the other didn't, maybe they set at different temperatures, but the tests were consistent.

And here below are engobe (colored slip?) sheep-shaped tests. Glazed and unglazed for each color.

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So I'm making small glaze samples, snail-shaped (the previous samples were square and flat and it did not tell me how it would behave on not-flat surfaces, and a good part of my work is very much not-flat - the glaze did not run here I'm just bad at painting precisely)

And since I didn't carve the glaze name on the sample I took pictures with the name of the glaze in it (for the close-ups I also have a readable version)

Here are: - one gray Botz glaze that I like very very much (no clue what I'll use it for but damn is it pretty), - a green glaze from Peter Lavem (I'll try to make it thicker and see how it looks but the "ancient" look is by design), - several Mayco elements glazes (I love the dark blue one), including one where I'm pretty sure the shop sent me the wrong one (I'll do one more sample with it to be sure I'm not the one who made a mistake) - and the Mayco matte glaze over two mixed Botz glazes (next I'll try without the mayco matte because I really like the blue-ish spots) and over Botz underglaze (ughhh - the underglaze is fine but I really don't like the milkiness of the matte glaze). (I can give you the specific references if someone's interested but I assumed you wouldn't be)

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I participated in the Clint Barton Celebration Bash (@clintbartoncelebrationbash), a Clint-centered Bang for which I did an illustration for @teeelsie-posts's story Summer Seasons, in which Clint Barton and Dick Grayson grow up knowing each other from the circus.

Art on AO3 here

The illustration is a Clint Barton circus poster, that exists in two versions, vertical and horizontal

The fic is rated E, and contains hard themes; mind the tags and take care of yourself.

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A lot of adulthood is shouting “AUGH MY LAUNDRY” hours after you put it in the washer/dryer and running to go fetch it

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I am opening my online shop for the first time ever, yay! In a week, on monday september 16th, at 8pm UTC+2. I have uploaded everything claywise so you can browse in the meantime (I may add some prints, still unsure, but those will be unlimited).

It's here: https://nolanfa-shop.fourthwall.com/en-eur/collections/2024-09

I'll start with a small-ish batch of medaillons and sheep (and one (1) pair of octopus earrings) and we'll see how it goes.

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a snowy owl with large snow-walker feet

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Horses! I was expecting them to be way darker (both for the dark to be darker, and for there to be more of it). Oh well. Next time. They were intended as a test of mixing different colors of clay, so any result is informative.

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the whole series! the series tag here, for if you want some comments on each one, and here on AO3

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making some panthers with totally realistic colours

and some smoked ones.

(the point is to check which kind sells better in the local market I'll be participating in)

Oh yeah, in case anyone here is European: I'll be at a ceramics market in Alsace / Elsass the 17 and 18 august, at the Halle Municipale of Soufflenheim, where I'll be selling my stuff.

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So now I have a *bunch* of sgraffitoed medaillons. Here are all of my bird-themed and sea-themed medaillons patterns, and some variations within what I count as the same pattern. The small ones are for earrings.

Also in case anyone is European, I'll be at a ceramics market in Alsace / Elsass, in Soufflenheim (at the Halle Municipale), on the 17 and 18 of august, where I'll be selling those (among other things)

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Another snow leopard in the works