Funny stuff kids made during today’s clay workshop: six-seven and a snail that looks like it’s open-mouth laughing. #clay #KidsArt #sixseven

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The cool thing is that every photo of the moon behind a rainbow will show the moon with exactly this phase. 🌖

for my midlife crisis, instead of buying a sports car and running around with a way too young for me cute thing, I bought this easel.

It holds ridiculously big canvas, and with counterweights, it's easy to lift up, down, left or right.

Now I need to finish this horse painting and put something even bigger up here!!!

#art #painting #mastoArt #midlifecrisis #artist #kentucky #workInProgress

Have you been outside today? If it's safe, go spend some time with a tree, or at least some green thing(s).

Today, after my admin tasks are done, I'll begin working on some commissions that I've had on my list to complete. One is for a lidded vessel to be placed on an altar that honors ancestors and orishas. This isn't the first time I've received such a request, but it's been a while. I'm always honored to be asked to make pieces that carry spiritual significance.

I’ve been making bedside water bottles for years but I don’t make them very often. They’re inspired by Mexican botellones—small clay water jugs with an accompanying cup which serves as a cover. Sometimes the cup has a handle. I’ve also discovered a Congolese version of the botellón. It’s such a simple and effective idea that it’s no surprise it would appear in multiple cultures. #pottery #ceramics #beautility

I just came back from a two-week, no computer trip down south (hence the silence here and in #junited )

I know it's easy to dig on Florida, but it is breathtaking and full of a lot of amazing human beings working really hard in spite of it all. They are loving and living and showing up for each other and making music and filming ICE raids and fighting for springs like these.

#florida #floridasprings

Philipp Otto Runge’s Farbenkugel (1810). The top two images show the surface of the sphere, while the bottom two show horizontal and vertical cross sections.

From our selection of colour charts, wheels and tables through the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/colour-wheels-charts-and-tables-through-history

Epic fail in the studio just now! I knew I was taking a risk with this larger statement piece. The attachment of the leaves was a challenge and something I’d never tried before. The vase had been sitting and drying for days, waiting for terra sig application. I carefully moved it to my work table today. No issue. Brought a jar of sig to the table and set it down beside the piece. A leaf fell and crumbled as soon as I sat the jar on the table. #ceramics

Wove these towels using spare yarn from the studio. #weaving #weaver #fiberarts

Two different terra sigillata results from the same #WildClay sample. I’ve talked a lot about how terra sig is just refined clay slip—Clay and water blended, left to settle and then you collect the silky fine layer at the top to decorate with.

Well, you can get varied results depending on how long you let the clay solution settle. The shiny red is a highly refined sig (left to sit for four days) and the green is a less refined sig (sat for 24 hrs.) I find this so interesting!

It’s raining! Finally, an unforecasted downpour—for the first time in a month. The rain tank is filling up. Hallelujah.

Finished! I'm calling this HONOR BALANCE. The whole time I was making it, I was thinking about how I like things that are gritty and messy and not shiny and even and that perfection really is not about total symmetry, it's about honoring balance.

#quilt #sewing @fiberarts

Do what you love and you won’t work a day in your life... because that field isn’t hiring.

Day 2: Camp True Colors clay workshop at ALSO Youth. We painted our pieces today and I explained the firing process and how the clay and colors will transform.

A10 year old asked me “how to make yellow” and didn’t know about primary and secondary colors. Unlike the other child I was working with who also didn’t know this kind of thing, she is homeschooled. Idk—maybe this info is obsolete nowadays. Feels strange to this GenXer. #LGBTQ #KidsArt

@didgebaba @kate 👆🏾

Art and Craft Show & Tell

Post a photo of a piece from your home collection and tell us what it means to you. Anything goes—something your kindergartener made or a piece you purchased from a gallery.

This #painting is by distinguished Belizean artist Pen Cayetano. His work often depicts #Garifuna culture. Here, women are shown processing cassava, their staple food. Cayetano is also the inventor or Punta Rock music. It was an honor to meet him and his wife Ingrid on our travels to #Belize.