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Christine K Ring Ceramics 🏳️‍🌈🍋🐋
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A queer, disabled video editor making ceramics in Philadelphia. Handmade, functional pottery with a brightly colored, tactile experience in mind. Inspired by ✈️📚📺 🏙️🏔️🐉🎲💖✨
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I wrote a pretty long IG post about what worked & what didn’t in making these from silicone molds & my results were: spray Windex on the silicone & pour plaster while Windex is still damp. Tap/shake molds vigorously for 2-3 minutes until air bubbles stop rising to the surface.

#MoldMaking #Plaster
Five rows of small plaster townhouses laid on a dark wood table. There’s three different versions of townhouse and two copies of each. Each row has differing levels of detail and air bubbles in the plaster.
July 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Wow hey Bsky it’s been a while and I’ve done 3 soda firings and taken a mold making class this year. Most recently I’ve been working on making molds of these little row houses but trying to get a good cast from the silicone before I make the mold for slip casting.
#Pottery #Ceramics #MoldMaking
Three rows of small plaster row houses in three different varieties. There are four of each laying on a paper towel. A close up of a white hand holding two small plaster row houses
July 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Cone 6 soda fired results! A few bits of underglaze bubbles & flakes and the inside is a mess and will need to be refried with clear again. But I love the outside so much 😍

#Ceramics #Pottery #DnD #Dragons
May 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Did a nice transfer peel on this plate that will have my Manarola city design on the front.

#Ceramics #Pottery
The back of a freshly made clay plate with a bright yellow lemon design and dark blue vines covering the plate.
May 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I’m really excited about the little dragon hand hold on this cup. Going into the soda firing in a few weeks 🧡

#Ceramics #Pottery #DnD
May 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Got some gorgeous soda firing results back from the studio on my lunch break and can’t stop picking them up and looking at them. They’re all so different and interesting but this one is obviously my favorite 🧡

#Ceramics #Pottery
March 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Bisqued Velaris wall piece - should the wash be black underglaze or red iron oxide? This is for a cone 6 soda firing next week.

#Ceramics #Pottery #Velaris
A carved circular wall piece at the bisque stage of the fictional city of Velaris from A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas with a blue sky, 3 stars carved above the mountains and a river running through a colorful city.
March 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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As an early birthday present to me, we went to see my two favorite hockey teams Flyers v. Kraken play and I got to watch warm-ups from the front row. SO fun to see the guys I’m usually watching on TV after 10pm EST up close and playing around. Also really fun to see the @seattlekraken.com win! 🦑
March 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Hey to all new ceramic artists who have joined this app: accessibility is key here and more people will like your posts if you include ALT TEXT.

You can turn on this setting to remind you to do it for any picture or video you upload in your Bluesky accessibility settings.

#Accessibility
A screenshot of the Bluesky Accessibility settings showing the Alt Text heading and then the options ‘Require alt text before posting’ and ‘Display larger alt text badges’ with toggles next to them.
March 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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11 years sober today ☺️ I try to get a tattoo every year and I’m now 2 years behind. If anyone has Philly tattoo artist recs please let me know!

#Sober #Sobriety #Tattoos
A close up of a white forearm and a black tattoo of the word ‘Serenity’ in script.
March 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Naturally woke up 2 hours before work & got the two squid designs transferred onto their vessels for the soda firing in March. The greenware deadline is tonight so hopefully they’ll have some time to dry today before I drop them off.

Song is ‘Son of Nyx’ by Hozier

#ceramics #pottery #art
February 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The textured tentacle handles
Three clay handles with tentacles texture on a wooden board
February 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I made some textured tentacle handles for this design but the question is - leave as is or attach the handle?

#ceramics #pottery #art
February 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Dropped off 6 cups at the studio to bisque for the soda firing. Been busting my ass to prep for this firing and the greenware deadline is tomorrow night! Hoping to get 2 more mugs finished before then 🤞🏻

The vibes are very much reflected in this photo.

#Ceramics #Pottery #PottersOfBluesky
A lineup of three greenware (unfired) clay cups on a wooden board with a label above it that says greenware. The left cup has white text reading ‘Eat the rich’ with an orca underneath with its mouth open and teeth bared. The middle cup has white text reading ‘infinitely suffering’ and a white upside down smiley face. The right cup has white text reading ‘Upgrade Accessibility’
February 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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I did the image transfer onto the slab, then the dragon scale texture, then built the mug - hence all the surface breakage but this one turned out okay. Not going to build them in this order again. The scale texture still went over the image transfer anyway 🤦🏼‍♀️

#PottersOfBluesky #Pottery #Ceramics
A hand built mug with dragon scale texture and a bright orange dragon roaring. There’s a bit of a cracking texture on the surface of the clay as well. A hand built mug with dragon scale texture and a bright orange dragon body and wing are taking up a majority of the mug. There’s a bit of a cracking texture on the surface of the clay as well.
February 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Tried a different way of image transferring yesterday where you apply the slip to the vessel first and wet the transfer and I didn’t get the timing right. Going to have to fill in the wings.

#Ceramics #Pottery #PottersOfBluesky
February 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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How do those with ports manage to do PT exercises or sweat in general without sweating off their adhesive dressing? I almost always sweat mine off. It’s difficult because I have PT twice a week and am always accessed during the week.

#Disability #ChronicIllness
A close up image of a port needle and clear dressing on a white woman’s chest with some tape on the edges.
February 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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My fingernail is over the Chocolate test at cone 6 oxidation with the top half clear glazed. To the left in order- Burnt Orange, Amaco Teddy Bear Brown, Caramel (columns underneath each color are them mixed with ratios of Amaco Ultra White). Hope this helps!
A white hand is holding a test tile vessel the size of a utensils crock and the thumb is pointing to Speedball Chocolate test. There are 5 rows of columns of colors covering the vessel with underglaze colors mixed with various ratios of white underglaze and then mixed with black underglaze at the bottom. This side of the vessel shows browns, tans, purples, and reds.
February 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Finally took this Velaris wall piece to be bisque fired and hopefully then soda fired in March!
#Ceramics #Pottery #ACOTAR #Art
A white hand is holding up a circular clay piece with mountains, blue sky, 3 stars above the mountain, a river, and a colorful city below meant to be Velaris from the A Court of Thorns and Roses series
February 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Crescent City ‘Light it Up’ Bryce 8-Pointed Star Mug

I still need to find a place to luster fire in Philadelphia to make more of these! ✨

#PottersOfBluesky #Ceramics #Pottery #CrescentCity
A glossy dark blue mug with a gold handle and gold all caps text that read ‘Light It Up’ A glossy dark blue mug with a gold handle and an 8-pointed gold star carved into it.
January 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Manarola, Cinque Terre, Italy mugs - one of my favorite designs but also a very time consuming one to fill in with color 🩵🍋
#Ceramics #Pottery #Art
Two mugs side by side showing two sides of a wraparound city design of Manarola, Italy - a colorful hillside ocean town built into the cliffs against a light blue sky. The mountainous areas are carved in the mug and the handles of the mugs are dark blue.
January 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Velaris wall piece update - painting in progress - I’m sure a lot of this will kind of get washed out in the soda kiln but 🤷🏼‍♀️ experiments!
#Ceramics #Pottery #Art
A circular carved piece of clay with mountains and a blue sky background with 3 stars above the central mountain peak and a city and river below the mountains. The piece is half painted.
January 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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He just loves to burrow and be a cozy cat
A fluffy grey cat face can be seen wrapped in a fuzzy grey blanket like a burrito looking cozy on a light grey couch.
January 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Currently working on my own Seattle Kraken scarf 🦑 it’s mostly alpaca/merino wool. The superwash merino is so soft and squishy omg.
A hand is holding up an in progress knitting project of a scarf on a straight knitting needle with mostly dark blue yarn and a few stripes of other blues and a red to mimic the Seattle Kraken hockey sweaters.
January 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Current Velaris wall piece WIP - need to fill it in with color before bisquing. Hoping to fire this in the soda kiln in March!
#Pottery #Ceramics #Velaris
A hand is holding out a circular clay slab with mountains and the fictional city of Velaris carved in relief. The clay is in green ware stage and only the sky has been painted blue so far.
January 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM