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cranky owlet
@crankyowlet.bsky.social
AA Shock, AZ desert mudhand,
artist/owner at Three Star Owl Clay: Bring the Wild Inside, and Always Eat from Art!
Birds, toads, & other wildbois, especially owls
Sundevil fam 🌵 AZ/CA
All photos mine unless noted
IG @three.star.owl
FB @threestarowl
Been a bit of a while since I posted here. Please enjoy some new work: "Regal Horned Lizard with Small Passenger" effigy bowl. #pottersofbluesky #animalsculpture #threestarowl #ceramics
September 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A Cassin's vireo pauses to look at the camera in the middle of stocking up for the rest of its trip north. #birds #vireo #migration
May 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Worm Blood Moon eclipse almost in totality, from my Arizona backyard last night. #eclipse #moon #bloodmoon #wormmoon
March 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Very small owl-and-dove bud vase fresh from Mesa Arts Center clay studio Δ10 soda kiln. Copper stain and soda atmosphere provided delightful unplanned mottling, including mysterious night-eyes.
#pottersofbluesky #animalsculpture #ceramics
March 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Love love love the tiny busy Rock wren (North American version, not the NZ Rock wren pīwauwau). This one posed nicely right at my feet on the Rio Verde north of Phoenix AZ. One of the best binomial names, too: Salpinctes obsoletus!! ❤️ #birds #rockwren
February 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Roadie is back for the third day, singing for love from the rooftop. Somehow he is both fluffy and spiky at the same time!
[This image started as a digiscoped photo, but my phone isn't really up to it, so I "arted up" so it looks more like painting].
#birds #greaterroadrunner #meepmeep
February 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sometimes this is the best shot you get, but I always love seeing a Roadie in the 'hood. This one was giving its wistful, down-sliding call from the neighbor's roof at midday. #birds #meepmeep #backofthecamerashot
February 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
February 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
We all carry our own predators with us: "Run Bunz Run II"
#ceramics #sculpture #animalart
February 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Because tonight's world news is so wretched, here's a Western screech-owl eyeing you crankily. #owl
February 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
January 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Undercat overhead.
#cat #cats #catsofbluesky
January 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"Stars and Stripes Blep" Jaguar, Sonoran mountain kingsnake, Montezuma quail (glazed stoneware clay and high temp wire, for the wall). Please read alt text on image for more details. #artshare
January 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Last night's Wolf Moon at the very moment of Mars' kiss. It's hard to see the tiny red dot is SO tiny at about 7 o'clock on the lower left edge of the Moon's belly. #occultation #moon #wolfmoon
January 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I've never fully grasped the phylogenetic relationship between Dinichthys and Dunkleosteus. #extinctfish #dinichthys #dunkleosteus #ancientfish #fish
December 30, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Step by step for making tiny, loose horny toad "sketches" in clay -- no more than 5 minutes each: gotta keep the toad flow going! #reptileart #hornedlizard #workinprogress
December 29, 2024 at 11:06 PM
NOBODY puts Godzilla on the Naughty List! #godzilla #gojira #santa #kaiju
December 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
December 21, 2024 at 1:54 AM
"He's right behind me isn't he?" When your next meal is on your head, like an orca wearing a salmon hat. (Roadrunner wall mask, stoneware, 7"x5" ThreeStarOwl/Allison Shock) #birdart #roadrunner
December 4, 2024 at 5:03 AM
December 1, 2024 at 11:31 PM
By way of introduction, here's "Toad, owl, Phainopepla stack jar" (by me, AllisonShock/Three Star Owl Clay Studio) #art #owl
November 29, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Bioluminescent waves, Orange Co. CA beach, last night. #invertebrate #bioluminescence
November 28, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Thought I'd share an art I did, Jack and the Bee.
November 22, 2024 at 11:13 PM
This Western screech-owl often hangs out in a nestbox we hung on the back wall of our house. It looks permanently peeved, quintessential Cranky Owlet.
#owl
November 20, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Sonoran bumblebee. #bumblebee
November 13, 2024 at 5:34 AM