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JBB: An Artblog!
I'm Jessica, an illustrator, designer, and ceramic artist & this is my process blog! Follow for extreme close-ups of tiny brushstrokes, assorted clay creatures, and sometimes books!
To see more finished work, visit my website at jessicabartram.ca & to buy things (mostly ceramics), see my shop: heywitch.bigcartel.com!
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I think having a baby niece is great cause my brother will send me just a constant stream of messages that sound indistinguishable from how someone at Jurassic park would text if they were being hunted by the raptor
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Caw! Caw! or The Chronicle of Crows (ca. 1848) - A story of a group of crows attacked by a farmer, beautifully illustrated by the Scottish artist Jemima Blackburn: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/caw-caw-or-the-chronicle-of-crows-ca-1848
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Girl you need to get out of bed faster than this
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the dev patel girlies have KNOWN how hot he is for years and years but the little giggle I heard from a grown man seated next to me when he took his shirt off in monkey man tells me it's truly over for everyone else. god bless
#just saw Monkey Man last night#and the loudest reaction in the theatre was when he removed his shirt#proud to be an early-adopter of the 'Dev Patel is hot' concept#also DAMN what a good movie!!!?!?!?!
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The title page of the Bills of Mortality, taken between December 27, 1664, and December 19, 1665, during the Great Plague of London.
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A 5200-year-old pottery bowl from Shahr-e Sukhteh bearing what could possibly be the world's oldest example of animation. It shows 5 images of a wild goat leaping, and if you put them in a sequence (like a flip book), the wild goat leaps to nip leaves off a tree. Museum of Ancient Iran
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#2008!!!#i didn't realize it was so fresh when I showed up#just a baby website!#i have been here for 16yrs holy shit
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#i just started listening to her on like Sunday#and I am now OBSESSED#what a damn good album & also this single is GREAT#I especially love Casual which is a perfect song
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So I mentioned glaze issues from my last kiln firing & here's one of them. I am SO GLAD that I followed my gut* & tossed these selkie sculptures onto little trays at the last minute because two of them stuck and would have messed up my kiln shelves if they had been tray-less!!!! TERRIFYING!!!!
Thankfully I can most likely dremel off the glaze drips from the two that stuck and free them from these ugly slapdash trays (a bunch of pals on insta suggested I leave them like this & make them trinket dishes, but I can't emphasize enough how unpleasant these trays are, being plain unglazed/unrefined clay that's been toasted in multiple firings). Stay tuned for news on how the stuck selkies fare!
*by 'followed my gut' I actually mean a combo of that + knowing that one of the glazes on them has crystals that make those rad spots but also make the glaze run more in the kiln, so not letting them go straight on the kiln shelf is probably always the best move
#artblog#pottery#ceramics#handbuiltceramics#ceramicart#ceramicsculpture#handbuilding#clay#stoneware#selkies#selkie#oh no glaze problem!#glaze talk#pottery talk
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It meeeeeee (did I reblog this a while ago? Maybe, but I love that she's still out & about!) <3
Jessica Bartram
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I fired my kiln this past Saturday and got some pretty sweet stuff out of it (also some minor glaze issues, but nothing catastrophic & more good than bad, so phew!). Especially happy with some of these mug inside/handle glazes...
& also pretty thrilled with how vibrant the underglaze stayed!!
#artblog#pottery#ceramics#handbuiltceramics#ceramicart#handbuilding#clay#stoneware#handbuilt mug#mug#leaf litter#toad#mushroom
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hi everybody please reblog this and tell me your go-to coffee order right now and if you don't like coffee feel free to include your go-to tea order instead
#latte w/regular milk#hot if it's cold out#iced if it's hot out#i am v boring when it comes to coffee#sometimes i change it up & order a cold brew tho!#thrills
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Update: North Gaza Women's Project!
Mahmoud Abu Salama is doing an amazing thing in North Gaza! He is starting a project to help Deaf Palestinian women use their pastry making skills while also distributing food to families in need. This is helping both the women make a bit of a living and feed the hungry in the North.
By donating, we’re helping Mahmoud hire more women who take pride in helping both themselves and their communities! So please feel free to donate if you have a few dollars to spare, or spread the link if you're unable! Any little bit helps!
HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag
GoFundMe Link
[Quick ID: Video of Mahmoud Abu Salama speaking to the camera with women sitting on the floor behind him as they put together packages of pastries. We then get a closeup of the women who sign to the camera.]
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Having anotheg 'gork we have got to get out of bed faster then this' morning
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Seeing drag queens in real life gives me the exact same feeling as how the hobbits describe elves in the lord of the rings
#also works for tall cis women (I'm 5'9)#once walked into a brewery where a drag event was in its intermission#and was stunned by a queen who must have been at least 6'8" in heels & dressed in gold lame#just totally hypnotized#and she wasn't even performing! just standing around chatting w/the employees of the brewery!!!
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Hannibal was filmed in Toronto/the GTA, so that's a beach on Lake Ontario (maybe the Scarborough Bluffs? They filmed over there a few times through the show), which is why it looks Ocean-y (Great Lakes my beloved).
I'm mostly responding because I feel like I have an inverse reaction to you while enjoying the show, like I recognize TOO much. SO many big Toronto landmarks appear in the show (the opera singer scene from S1 is the atrium of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Randall Tier's first episode had scenes filmed at the Royal Ontario Museum, but then the museum was like WTF is this we don't like this????? & the second bit of his appearance [post-death] had to be filmed at the University of Toronto, etc etc) that their location markers come off as very silly to me b/c obviously that's Toronto, people.
it’s been four years since I last watched through all of Hannibal & I still think about the episode set in West Virginia where they’re literally at the beach. The beach in Grafton WV. A town notably 1,000 feet above sea level & roughly 200 miles from the nearest seawater
Like….was it supposed to be a lake….
is this perhaps what someone at NBC thinks a lake in the Appalachian mountains looks like
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