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MoNSteR’s studio
@monsters-studio.bsky.social
small batch ceramic art, handmade and fired in NJ

Upcoming: Pittstown Pots and Blooms | May 10th 10am-3pm | 368 Oak Grove Rd, Pittstown, NJ

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#art #artist #ceramics #pottery #studioartist
Hehe I’m on the flyer for this year 😁
March 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It’s clay reclaim day in my tiny apartment studio. First I’m drying out old blocks of clay on the front stoop, then hammering the dried clay into chunks to slag down in a bucket. Then the clay is dried on plaster bats. When it feels right, I wedge the slop back into clay and make something from it.
March 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Fellow New Jerseyans! Next Thursday, in Keyport, NJ, is the very first Collective Creativity. An Open Mic event featuring the musical talents of Renee Maskin. I will be the featured artist, bringing along some pottery and my carnivorous plant babies for sale!

#nj #newjersey #njmusic #njlocal
March 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A group show featuring ten potters collaborating with florist SpadaFlora.

May 10, 2025
368 Oak Grove Rd Pittstown NJ

John Reinking
Keiko Inouye
Brian Chen
Maxwell Mustardo
Monster
Tyler James Emerson Moore
Jennifer Evans Arbo
Kimberly Hardiman Winnicky
Alicia Ulmes

#pottery #newjersey #nj #clay
March 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Here are my test tiles for a local Jersey wild clay that I mixed with porcelain. From left to right, we have cone 05 ox, cone 6 ox, cone 10 ox, cone 10 red, cone 10 red w/ clear glaze, and cone 10 “ fake woodfire” featuring a shino dipped in too much wood ash. I’m underwhelmed by it 😕

#wildclay
March 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A little black underglaze applied, and into the bisque kiln he goes!

#wip #workinprogress #riverotter #pottery #ceramics #clay
March 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
March 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
February 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
How I pay attention in meetings.

#sketches #doodles #adhd
February 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Exciting workshop coming up at The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, NJ. The amazing Minsoo Yuh will be teaching a 2-day workshop!

#ceramics #pottery #ceramicsclasses #nj #newjersey
February 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I managed to safely transport the Owlbear sculpture to the ceramics studio that I work at. Thanks Keiko for filming the reveal 😂

#ceramics #ceramicsculpture #clay #studioartist #wip
February 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
February 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
So uh… LimeCrime… what happened?

#limecrime #pinkhair #hairdye
February 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Never thought I’d need to buy one of these…

#antinazi #nonazis #punchnazis
February 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I am determined to finish this sculpture TODAY!

#owlbear #fantasyart #sculpture #clay #birds #owls #ceramics #wip
February 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Oh lord I’m attempting texture 😅😅😅

#ceramics #clay #sculpture #owlbear #birds #birdart
February 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Over the last few years I developed an interest in growing carnivorous plants. Here is my pride and joy from over the summer… a 12” bog full of sundew, venus fly traps and trumpet pitcher plants.

#carnivorousplants #houseplants #venusflytraps #sundew #bog #boggarden
January 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I have no idea how I am going to finish the surface of the owlbear sculpture. Eastern Screech Owls have very busy patterns, which I am trying to somehow simplify for the sculpture. Just gonna keep playing around with ideas until something feels right.

#sketchbook #doodles #fantasyart #wip
January 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Okay… this escalated quickly 😅

#owlbear #birds #fantasyart #clay #wip #ceramics
January 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Restructuring the face. Trying to get the underlying form of the owl’s face correct before I go in and add feathers. Not easy 😅

#owlbear #birds #sculpture #wip #ceramics #ceramicsculpture #clay
January 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The first attempt in my wild clay series. Went hiking with Maisy at a park near my home and stumbled across some clay, and made a borb! Then, the borb was woodfired at The Kiln Yard for 7 days in an anagama. Love that toasty brown color!

#wildclay #woodfiredceramics #wufar #ceramics #birds
January 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Hello, I’m Monster!
January 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A wild clay project depicting wildlife indigenous to the location the clay was found. This wild clay was dug in northern NJ, and the sculpture was fleshed out on location. I chose a black bear as my figure due to their likeliness to be encountered in that region.

#wildclay #ceramics #sculpture
January 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Woodfired rabbit pot from the Spring 2024 firing at The Kiln Yard’s anagama The Vulture

#woodfiredceramics #woodfiredpottery #wufar
January 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM