Before (as opposed to after) and coupon!

A very quick blog post to show a few new items patiently waiting in the kiln to be bisqued fired. If you have made the journey from my etsy store (www.etsy.com/shop/artaed), these are some new ideas I've been percolating. If anyone wants to hazard a guess as to what they are, I will gift you a $10 coupon on etsy toward your next artaed purchase! Just convo me at my etsy store. See photo below...and happy wondering!

Some good news for me

I just found out today that two of my pieces were accepted into a Purposeful Pottery Show at a local gallery. Here they are:

Cat Bird Bath

Shell Siren

Irony or One of a Kind

I don't know about you, but I really like well done graffiti. I love the temporary-ness of it and the spontaneity, the subterfuge and the subversiveness. Anyway, walking through the next town over, in the last year or so, I came across this stenciled portrait and underneath were the words, One of a Kind. In appreciation of it, I made a little bookend homage, pictured below. Well, no sooner had the glaze on the piece cooled off when I found myself walking around town again and I noticed several more of these "One of a Kind"s stamped on sidewalks. On further inspection and subsequent research, they turned out to be advertising for someone's start up. Sadness. Not only was it not one of a kind, it was some kind of marketing campaign. Oh well. It caught my eye (original graffiti under my homage):

Sketch book

I wonder how many ceramic sculptors sketch things out before they start a new project. In theory, I wish I were more consistent. Here are a couple of examples of drawings that turned into actual three dimensional ceramic works.