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claypigeonpottery · 1 year

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I gotta say, this is one of my favourite mugs. the green might turn out more black than expected, it was a mix of a few things and ...who knows. I can't wait for this to get out of the kiln

#Calvin and Hobbes #Bill Watterson #Calvin and Hobbes quote #pottery #ceramic #sgraffito #frogs #frog #carving #time lapse #time lapse art #timelapse #leopard frogs #I'm pretty sure leopard frogs were my reference material #they're my favourite frog #but it's hard to choose #slab built pottery

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hyydraworks · 1 year

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Trying out moar bat friends on mugs.

#hyydraworks #ceramics #pottery #traditional art #handmade #illustration #stoneware #mug #mugs #cups #bat #cute #slab #hand built #cottage core #cozy bat friend

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aran-made · 2 years

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Making vases for the Vessel + Vine Exhibit.

#hand built pottery #handbuilding #pottery wip process hand built pottery #pottery #vase #process #vesselvineexhibit #slab built pottery

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tejamayo · 1 year

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small mug

#pottery #ceramic #ceramics #mug #cup #tea #coffee #espresso #handbuilt #handbuilding #hand building #slab #slab built #terracotta #art #craft #handicraft

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jbbartram-illu · 2 months

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Aaaaand I'm back at the pottery desk starting my next batch, working on a new round of slab-built mugs (& assorted other creatures while I wait for slabs to firm up...once I've made a few more mugs, I'm hoping to finally find time to focus on some bird ladies!!).

Also, I AM working on a shop update & WILL be announcing it soon (goal is maybe 2nd week of march?!). I just have this problem where working on pottery is more fun than getting my shop organized (sorry, sorry!).

#artblog #pottery #ceramics #handbuiltceramics #ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #handbuilding #clay #stoneware

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blueiskewl · 1 year

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Ancient Etruscan Tomb Discovered in Vulci, Italy

An intact tomb from the 6th century B.C. has been discovered in the Etruscan necropolis of Casale dell’Osteria in Vulci in Lazio, central Italy. The 2,500-year-old tomb is richly furnished with pottery and contains an incredibly rare final meal on a brazier.

Archaeologists with the Vulci Foundation made the discovery earlier this month when the excavation revealed two tufa stone slabs two feet wide and weighing 40 kilos (88 lbs) in place in front of the entrance to the tomb. The team used a crane to carefully remove the slabs and uncover the entrance. Inside, they found a chamber tomb with a rock-cut platform and an array of about 30 vessels, mostly black bucchero pottery, cups, glass unguentaria and amphorae, all intact and in impeccable condition.

On the right side of the chamber towards the entrance is a bronze brazier still containing the coals and the skewers that held the meat cooked for the final repast. The cinerary remains of the tomb’s owner were placed inside an olla — a squat, rounded pot commonly used by the Etruscans as containers for the entombment of cremated remains — on top of the rock-cut platform.

It is believed to be the tomb of a woman, based on the lack of weapons and on the presence of a spindle whorl. She must have been someone of significant wealth to afford so richly furnished a tomb.

Vulci was a prosperous Etruscan city-state 50 miles northwest of Rome. It was the birthplace of the legendary sixth king of Rome, Servius Tullius (r. 578-535 B.C.) and an important center of ceramic arts, metal mining and metal crafts. It was also a center of trade, purveying expensive imports of Greek pottery, balms and unguents from the east.

It was defeated by Rome in 280 B.C.; Roman forces took its coastal territory, cutting off Vulci’s access to the sea and strangling the maritime trade that had been so integral to its success. The city declined and was ultimately abandoned. No new town was ever built over it.

Part of it survived underground, however, in Vulci’s necropoli. Tens of thousands of tombs containing priceless artifacts from every day use objects to entire chariots and silver hands. An unpopulated area far from the prying eyes of any authorities with tons of unknown and unrecorded portable archaeological wealth made a perfect target for looters and over the decades Vulci has been re-sacked on a vast scale. The discovery of an intact, unlooted tomb with its contents complete and undamaged is therefore incredibly rare.

#Ancient Etruscan Tomb Discovered in Vulci Italy #ancient tomb #ancient grave #ancient necropolis #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations

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oldmanffucker · 6 months

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In my ceramics au, everyone is an artist (stede just bought an art gallery he knows nothing abt running and all his staff are artists and they have staff bonding at Queen Anne clay happy hour one night and this is how stede meets Ed and Izzy) I’m still working through my thoughts abt everyone’s artistic qualities etc but I wanna lay out my artist thought so far:

Jim: experimental contemporary jewelry (pushing the limits of what jewelry is/can be, experimenting with the thwarting facial recognition, and ideas of beauty)

Swede: tooth jewelry

Wee John: fiber artist and handpoke tattooer

Fang: whimsical playful functional pottery (doesn’t necessarily have to be function but often happens to be)

CJ: kitschy crude humor pottery

Stede: handbuilt/slab built ceramics - functional work that has a main focus on formal beauty. Pieces that serve a function but are intentionally made beautiful/ornate enough to stand their own as sculptures too

Ed & Izzy in the present run a pottery business that focuses on production pottery (large scale creation of identical pieces for being sold in stores etc). They make pipes that look like other things (food/objects), mugs/bowls/plates/pour overs that have some splashes of whimsy in a color choice or pattern or shape but are overall not terribly complicated. They are unique tho. they also have the Queen Anne clay storefront that has classes like happy hour clay classes, kids classes etc.

Neither of them focus too terribly much on their own personal art but sculptural non functional personal ceramic work blooms from each of them throughout the fic as stede encourages them to explore things beyond their business/actually feel their feelings.

In college they both were like way into performance art. Ed kinda for fun and bc he loved the physical exertion of it, but Izzy was 100% serious, putting his entire being into every performance for better or for worse. They egged each other on to bigger and bigger pieces and we’re very Marina and Ulay coded. Jack thought it was all stupid and just liked to join in bc he thought it was funny and hot to slap each other for long stretches of time but izzy was frustrated bc he didn’t get it.

Ed’s college art was more multi media (bc adhd yk) but was big on painting as a throughline. His work was big and messy and loud. He liked word working and sculpture and linocut printmaking.

There’s so much more but it would be a multiple page essay if I laid it all out rn.

Buttons: the QAC kiln tech. Loves to sculpt birds from clay.

Frenchie would of course be heavily focused on music but I haven’t settled all the details yet.

Roach obviously food based but again, not all ironed out.

Lucius: drawing, life drawing classes, focus on sensuality, queerness, the body, love

Pete: life model, wood working

Still thinking on the rest.

#ceramics au #ofmd #text post #izzy hands #edward teach #stede bonnet #fic #jim jimenez #buttons ofmd #fang ofmd #wee john feeney #lucius spriggs #black Pete #olu #the Swede #calico jack #frenchie ofmd #roach ofmd

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gemsofgreece · 10 months

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https://exploringgreece.tv/destinations/eyvoia-to-mystiriodes-drakospito-sta-1-300-metra-ypsometro/28433/

Came across this article and i am surprised i didn't know about these "dragon houses" ( δρακοσπιτα) and not only that they are high in the mountains but also they date really old , we are talking 5.000 B.C 😳

Yep that... phenomenon is very interesting and pretty unknown to many Greeks and tourists alike. But it's not that old, it's from around 500 BC according to most estimations, with a broad 1200 BC - 100 BC range of possibility.

The Dragon Houses are more than 20 ancient megalithic constructions that can be found in various peaks in the south of Euboea island. The buildings have a mild pyramid like shape on their roofs and they are built with giant slabs from the region that were somehow processed first, in a way that provided a lot of stability. Some interiors have details like shelves. They have neither foundations nor windows. Some of the stone slabs weigh almost 10 tons and they were processed to fit perfectly with each other so that no extra binder was used at all. Most of the dragon houses are built in significant altitudes given how ancient they are and especially the ones in the peaks of Mount Ohi (Όχη with an η) are remote enough that it is hard to imagine how they were built. Ohi is not huge (~1400m - 4600 ft) but it is a very rocky mountain with dangerous flimsy terrain and narrow trails between cliffs. The difficulty to explain the houses' creation led to folk lore, according to which dragons lived there and terrorized the populations of the mountains.

In 1959, archaeologist professor Moutsopoulos discovered pieces of ancient pottery up there as well as undeciphered scripts.

Also important picture:

#greece #europe #travel #greek islands #ancient culture #megalithic #greek facts #dragon houses #euboea #evia #sterea hellas #central greece #anon #mail #link

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k00288488 · 1 year

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SLAB BUILT POTTERY

I finished the final pieces for my soma cube to be bisque fired. I carved into the pieces with different line based marks. I had a look at Sol LeWitt and his line work before starting the carving of these pieces so he was definitely an influence.

I really enjoy the outcome of the carved and slipped pieces as I was hesitant to add the marks to the pieces at first but I think the more I did to the pieces the better the pieces were.

I’m excited to add glaze after they are fired.

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callmebliss · 2 years

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I had a really great mug at work

(Yeah. Had.)

It had been a gift from my ex some fifteen years ago, and it was really lovely. Slab-built carved-out sides so it managed to be round like a prism orb good for wrapping my hands around to get the warm, and a lovely not-quite-robin’s-egg blue glaze, a dragonfly bas relief on every other facet section, and a flat bit on top of the roundly handle just right for resting the thumb on to hold it steady

But when someone put away the dry dishes last week it got set in the cabinet wrong

So when my coworker opened the cabinet door to get a dish for her lunch, it plummeted straight out and crashed to pieces in the sink in front of her

I cherished that mug. Yet, somehow, I’m not angry or upset (and not at alas mad at coworker; she cannot control gravity).

But I need a new work mug because the ones the manager got for common use just kinda suck

So…am I following anybody who does pottery? Mutuals who are mug-makers? Got and clay-slinging so-and-so’s in your followers? I am very much in the market for a new mug! Happy to buy or to do crochet in trade.

#mugshot #mug #*smashes mug* another!#pottery #take my money

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caitlinsnestofwonders · 5 days

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I made some mugs! I had a go at slab building, throwing and pinch pottery

I had so much fun and I can't wait to see them with their glazes in a few weeks! 😊✨️

The sizing of them are quite extreme opposites though, I think I'd consider the slab built one more of a ceramic tankard than a mug haha. And my thrown mug is quite small but it's cute, I'm happy with how neat it turned out. The pinching one didn't turn out as nice as you can see back there, haha. Lets hope the glaze I picked out does it justice

#pottery #handmade mug #ceramics

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claypigeonpottery · 21 days

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I actually got it all recorded. here’s a commission, a fox take on the bunny jar

the carving took about 2.5 hours, the building took about the same. the jar is 11” tall

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hyydraworks · 27 days

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So I've teased them a bit, but I'll have two new drinking vessels in this week's Etsy update. The new bigger mugs hold about 14-15 oz of liquid and the big ol' tumblers hold about 16oz.

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dknuth · 12 days

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Uthina

Our first Roman city this morning, Uthina. It's south of Tunis and an easy day trip.

We drove along the ancient aqueduct for several miles. I noted that it was built from a mixture of cut stone and concrete.

There's a nice visitor center with a bridge over a wadi to the amphitheater ruins.

One of the exhibits in the visitor's center was the location of the sources of all the marble used in the city. They have identified marble from Spain, Sardinia, Egypt, Algeria, and mainly from Greece and Asia Minor. It's really remarkable to me that they were shipping marble from all over the Roman Empire to a small city in North Africa.

The amphitheater has bee partially restored.

The next large feature was the baths. Roman baths are different than what we might think. It's better to think of them as a modern health club with facilities for working out and socializing in addition to bathing. It's also important to understand that soap was not used in the Roman world. You rubbed yourself with olive oil and then scraped it off.

So there were large municipal baths, private baths, and small neighborhood baths. The largest baths, particularly in Rome would have bars, libraries, meeting rooms, etc.

The largest one in Uthina was not that big but was still quite massive.

This was the caldarium, the heated room. The floor was on the top of the pedestals and hot air circulated under the floor and behind the wall.

Here you can see the toilet in the foreground, an 8-holer it appears. It also appears to only be one.

The walls of the major rooms would have been lined with marble. here you can see the remains of the thin marble slabs on the walls.

How did they cut marble slabs that thin? With saws. I have seen an ancient water-powered marble saw in a site in Jordan.

The vaulted roof had collapsed. These huge masses of masonry give an idea of the size and weight of the vault over the main room.

Amazingly the spaces below the floor survived.

These spaces would have been utility areas and not for the public. Above one doorway was a bit of ancient graffiti, a sign of protection,

One of the women sardonically commented, "Because nothing protects like a penis."

Up at the top of the hill was the capitol with three temples. Today there are only the bases and parts of the columns of the ain temple.

Before the site excavations it had been a farm with the owner's house on the temple platform.

After the government took over the site they took down the house.

The spaces under the temples do appear to have been public gauging from their marble floors, in excellent condition.

The lowest level was more store/work rooms and later held an olive press, etc.

I am really curious about that oddly shaped door, although it would make a great door for a wine cellar.

After leaving Uthina we drove to Old Tunis where we walked through the Souk and had lunch.

One person found an interesting piece of pottery at the site that our professor identified as African Red pottery, a famous export from the area in Roman times.

We learned it was identifiable as the lid of a cookpot and that the shapes and particularly the edges of this red pottery have been cataloged and matched to particular potteries and periods. This makes pottery shards a particularly valuable resource for identifying the era of a site.

With that, we headed back to our hotel for a more relaxed afternoon.

As a note overfeeding is a real issue on this tour. Breakfast has been a buffet, but lunch and dinner have been in hotels, with the meals preordered. Typically after the salad or appetizers, I am some others are full. Then they bring out main courses of huge proportions. I have had limited success turning these away, with the restaurant being insulted that I didn't want their food. But I can't imagine that they are more pleased when I leave almost all of it on my plate.

I, and some others, have started just skipping dinners altogether.

#tunisia #Uthina #AIA Tour

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jbbartram-illu · 15 days

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Real person message!! When making your sculptures (or other things too really!) do you ever get bored of making the same kind of guy many times? And if yes, do you have a way to spice up the process, or do you prefer to just move on to something new? (I love your work a ton! Both when the types are very different but also when they are like siblings :D)

Oh man YES I do get tired of Particular Guys! Sometimes because the whole process is so labour-intensive (hello, Woodsbeasts & big Bird Ladies), sometimes just because I run out of creative steam on 'em (most recently, sphinxes), Thankfully (because the timelines of pottery are so so so long) just not making them for a batch or two will give me a minimum 6 month break & by the time I think of going back they feel fresh & exciting again.

I also have the benefit of pottery being the more flexible part of my job (I'm also an illustrator/graphic designer) - when it started to become a viable part of my practice, I promised myself that, with the exception of commissions/prepping for particular sales, most of my batches would be of whatever I felt like making at the time. As opposed to my other work, which takes the shape of particular projects (a book, a report for a client, etc), I can just tootle away at my pottery desk, sculpting weird beasts that make me happy. This has worked well for me & I plan to stick with it as an approach for the time being.

Mugs/vessels are a bit different, as the actual making of the forms almost becomes muscle memory (especially the slab-built mugs), so it feels less creatively draining. I can, however, burn out on particular types of vessel decoration, eg. the EIGHT (8?!?) medieval-marginalia inspired pieces that are in the glaze kiln as I type. They took SO LONG and by the last couple of mugs I was full-on cursing my choices (tho if they turn out well I know I'll forget all about the pain & go oooohhhh let's make more. This is how my terrible brain works).

So yeah! Burnout happens, but I don't let it worry me because I know my weird little guys can wait until I'm ready to make 'em again :)

Note: this starts with 'real person message' because in Oct 2023 I got a bunch of annoying spam messages & asked people for real asks...then I got a ton of lovely Qs & am still working through the backlog in...uhhh...April 2024. Oops/thank you for your patience?!

#artblog #pottery #ceramics #handbuiltceramics #ask #ask answered #thenearsightedmicroraptor

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kinsmade1 · 6 months

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Handmade pottery pitcher stein Klingmua clay slab.

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