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Megan
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On the green ware shelf at my community studio waiting to be fired!

#pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #sgraffito #vultures #grumpyfrog #natureart
The cup on the left has a black and white carving on the top half of the cup with ridges in the clay on the bottom half. The carving is of a grumpy frog sitting next to a black and white Fly Agaric Mushroom. The cup on the right is a black ceramic cup with a vulture carved into it revealing the white clay under the black underglaze. The vulture has a sun halo behind its head. Black ceramic cup with a vulture carved into it revealing the white clay under the black underglaze. The vulture has a sun halo behind its head.
February 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Question for all the #sgraffito people out there, do you clear glaze the outside of your cups? Or do you leave it as raw clay?

I'm going to do some test pieces but I'm curious to know what everyone else does since I'm still new to this surface design

#pottery #ceramics #potteryquestion #glazehelp
February 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I’m getting better at sgraffito the more I practice! I’ve been waiting to make something that would fit my luna moth sketch and this plate using a GR pottery form was perfect!

#pottery #ceramics #sgraffito #lunamoth #natureart
A black oval ceramic plate on a white board with orange tape on the edges. The plate has a luna moth carved into it revealing the white clay under the black.
February 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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One of my new opossum cups and a little owl o made for myself!

#pottery #ceramics #underglazepainting #opossum #natureart
Unfired ceramic cups in a shelf with a small ceramic owl in front. One cup has a opossum in front of a moon or halo painted in underglaze.
February 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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One way to ID a turkey vs a black vulture is the underside of the wings. Black vultures have light feathers only on the primary feather tips; turkey vultures have lighter feathers all along the wings + the tail feathers. I thought this would translate nicely with my new venture into sgraffito 😊
A black ceramic cup with a turkey vultures carved into the black underglaze to reveal the white clay underneath.
February 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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New cup shapes. New designs. New techniques. So many new things! Yet the same subject matter, I can’t let go of opossums or moths ☺️

#sgraffito #opossum #moth #natureart #pottery #ceramics
A board of 5 freshly carved ceramic cups. The top half of one has an opossum carved into black underglaze with its head up in front of a moon or halo. A second cup not in the center has a carved Polyphemus moth.
February 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This mug had to go through 3 glaze firings due to the studio kiln having some issues with getting to cone 6 temps, but she came out looking great! Which I am very thankful for cause she was my half of a trade!

#pottery #ceramics #handpainted #underglazepainting #natureart #chipmunks
A handmade and hand painted ceramic mug. The bottom quarter of the mug has a brown glaze. Above that are yellow coreopsis flowers with red towards the base of each petal. In front of the flowers is a sitting chipmunk whose tails dips into the bottom brown glazed area. The inside of the mug is the same brown glaze which is feathered at the rim of the mug.
January 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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A love bug, if you will 💘

#GoliathBeetle #Beetles #Bugs #Entomology #Ceramics #Pottery #Underglaze
A porcelain cup (pre-kiln firing) with painted Goliath beetle in red colors with hearts.
January 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Posting some older work from the 2024 holiday making season. The first whale I have painted on pottery!

#pottery #ceramics #natureart #whales #underglazepainting
Small handmade ceramic plate. There is an underglaze painting of a humpback whale in greys and grey-browns on white clay. The rim is glazed with blue Rutile, a deep blue glaze that breaks a brown color at the rim. The plate is propped up on a stand against a white and grey faux wood background.
January 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The nice thing about moving social media platforms is I am finding a lot of awesome potters and ceramicists that I've never seen before!
January 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I’ve been sketching out a lot of new things I want to put on pottery, including some turkey vultures! I tried to post this on IG, but the picture kept looking ridiculously fuzzy so it’s going here instead!

#pottery #sketches #turkeyvulture #birds
Pencil and black pen sketch of a turkey vulture. The vulture is soaring with wings fully spread. The left wing is labeled with roughly how many feathers per section of wing; large wing tip feathers have about 7, the middle section has 9 ish, and the section closest to the body has 6 ish feathers.
January 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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She’s done!

#pottery #underglaze #colormixing #colortheory
Large square ceramic color mixing chart with smaller squares for 1:1 color mixing ratio
January 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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My Amaco underglaze color mixing chart is so close to being done! Inspired by the amazing @caitienorth.bsky.social

#pottery #underglaze
January 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Sometimes you have to stop and smell the flowers

#ceramics #pottery
Ceramic cup with a painted opossum smelling black eyed susans and goldenrod flowers.
January 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I’m honestly not sure how much I am going to post here but I do want to have this set and my favorite people from IG followed just in case I decide to use this more.

#pottery #ceramics
Handmade ceramic mug with a painted fawn and flower scene. The fawn is curled up with its tucked under its back leg. Around the fawn are black eyed Susan’s and goldenrod flowers.
January 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM