Patty's Pottery

I have a few pots available for purchase at Fired Up Studios. Stop in to finish up your holiday shopping with some handmade ceramics.

I will have some pottery for sale at the Winter Art Market at MASTER FRAMERS INC. this weekend. It will be an eclectic selection of old inventory and a few of the new pieces I was able to make this year.

This is the last Coffee Cat Mug from my inventory. I haven't had time to make any new ones. The calico glazing is one of my favorites. Go bid on it (or something else) and help out some bitty kitties.

#ART29: Handmade Cat Mug/Bowl | 2024 Silent Auction | The Bitty Kitty Brigade This wheel-thrown porcelain mug by Patty's Pottery looks like a cat perched in your cabinet when sitting upside-down, waiting to be used! In use, it balances on its ears and tail to support your favorite beverage or snack.

Started some goblets today.

Pottery weight loss day, aka trimming. Now they sit around a dry for a while.

Practicing vases this morning. It’s bot a form I’ve super good at. I don’t make them because I’m not good at it, and I’m not good at it because I don’t practice. These are small and super heavy; much trimming will be needed in their future. But that’s ok.

New spaceman magnets fresh from the kiln. I just have to wait for my magnet order to arrive.
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Some are darker than others because I was experimenting with a final black wash to darken the lines. I don’t like how muddy it made the colors, so I won’t be doing that again.
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Do you like the white or the orange spacesuits better?

Do I have a kiln at home? Nope.
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My home studio is tiny. It’s much smaller than the space I had at Fired Up Studios. It’s roughly 8’ x 8’ (give or take a few inches each direction). That’s smaller than the display tents you see at art fairs (usually 10’ x 10’). It’s a hobby space and not a production space.
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I won’t be making enough work to fill my own kiln, and I have firing access at work. I load most of the glaze kilns at anyway.
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And I won’t go into the problems of putting a kiln in my garage. It’s just not practical, especially when I’m just playing in the clay occasionally for fun.

Underglaze painting between loads of laundry today. Sadly, the Happy Space planet got dropped just as I was finishing it. So now I have a set of 5 magnets instead of 6.