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(definitely forgot to upload this timelapse)

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they got some texture. I’ll underglaze them soon

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Back at the wheel ☀️

(Erin Drew / sketchingerin)

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a horse coaster

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they’re hollow now, and they have crowns and little wire loops for bells once they’re fired

I changed their eyes, too. they weren’t quite right before

the goat and the lamb

built together as a matched set

they can sit together in a few different ways

🖤🤍

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forgot to share this one earlier, from a glazing session last week with @subpar-lemon-bar

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listed a few discount mugs & 4 new sticker designs on my shop 🕊️

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I'm sorry to hear about your explody & injured pieces :c

If it's ok to ask, do you know what likely caused the pottery to explode? I think i know a couple of the basic causes (i'm not a potter myself, i just like knowing stuff) but i'm sure you're plenty experienced enough to not make a hollow sealed piece on purpose, so i guess i'm just wanting to get a better idea of more subtle accidental causes of this, if you happen to know.

I'm glad most of your pieces survived though, and that you were still able to share photos of the un-fired pieces with us!

thanks, the anguish is lessening lol. having pictures of them does help. and I’ll be recreating all four of them over the next couple months.

the reason they exploded was because they were slightly damp in the centre. the water in the clay expands so fast as it turns to steam that the clay literally explodes.

and, fun fact, you can make a hollow sealed piece and fire it safely. I’ve seen someone make and fire a hollow sphere. but that’s a very common misconception. my first pottery teacher taught me that, and I didn’t learn it was false for a few years.

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everything is glazed, it all goes in the kiln on the 12th!

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some kitty portraits on coasters, each with different flowers around them

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glaze dipping the rest of my stuff tonight, including this little fawn bowl

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Blue Jay mug

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the goat and the lamb

built together as a matched set

they can sit together in a few different ways

🖤🤍

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sold

a snake in snake orchids

(snorchids)

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I’m like 90% I haven’t posted pictures of this pig yet

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new ceramic critter rattles now available at the Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery !

all set for a new home via local purchase or canadian / international shipping! other previous work also available at the gallery :) 🌷

image and video description:

A ceramic sculpture and rattle of a nubby horned, giraffe-necked standing creature. Pale blue stripes against a black body run down from face to torso, breaking down into spots by its legs. A white belly and throat give way to large, alert eyes. The second ceramic sculpture and rattle is of a standing rhinoceros. The folds and bumps of its black skin are lined in red. Thin strands of nichrome wire is placed at the tips of the ears and throat give a hint at the appearance of a sumatran rhino. It also shares the quality of attentive eyes like the previous sculpture.

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😭 I had two explosions, and one of them destroyed three other pieces with it like a fucking bomb. the ram looks unharmed, but when I picked it up, it fell apart

all my mugs and plates and such are fine, at least.

I might have cried a little, but this is just …part of pottery. I’ll be more careful and more patient and that’s all I can do.

RIP my beautiful dudes