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
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
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 🤞