buntey

This blog is dedicated to my digital portfolio regarding my studio exploration in jewellery, photography, ceramics and print making

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About Me

Hi! Call me buntey. I'm an art student from Australia.

What you will find on this blog is a series of pieces made in the four studios assigned to me. Photography, Jewelry, ceramics, and printmaking.

To contact me please message this blog or my main blog, @xurkitreeking where I primarily post my personal art and fan-works.

Artists statement

I love exploring themes of absurdity, horror, humour, and identity. My art often includes monsters, animals, and references to pop culture. Simply put, I love making art of the things I adore, exploring what they mean to me, and how they’ve shaped me. I want to share with you, not only the final product, but also how I made them. Whilst I love to show of my art, I think it’s just as important to show more than just the final product in hopes that I can encourage others to also make things. Growing up, I always saw the things other people would make and post online, but it never occurred to me that I could also just make things myself. I think only ever seeing the final product never made me think about the fact that a person made them.

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Jewelry

Minecraft pixel art pendent collection (2024)

Fucking Ring (2025)

Rectangle Necklace (2025)

Eyes of the Claydol (2026)

Photography

Title (2026)

Ceramics

Fish Bowl (2025)

Pink Lady (2025)

SELF-ISH bird (2025)

*this content has been removed due to copyright* (2026)

Printmaking

Ink!Sans linocut (2025)

Witness my Horrible Fucking Creeture

BEHOLD A MAN (2026)

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Fish bowl

The fish depicted on this bowl is a coelacanth. Coelacanths were believed to have gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago but in 1938 were discovered to still be a living species without changing. They are my favorite fish, and I chose to depict them to try creating a detailed design with sgraffito

it is made in dedication to the account @fuckyeahcoelacanths

Brick Laws, Fish Bowl, 2025, ceramic, 6x14.5x14.5cm

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@windtraces OMG THAT’S SO COOL

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witness my horrible fucking creeture

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Brick Laws, Witness my Horrible Fucking Creeture, 2026, ink on paper 24.6x28cm

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Behold a Man

Brick Laws, Behold a Man, 2026, linocut print, ink on cardstock, 11.4x13.8cm

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Title

The actual photo is a headshot of me smiling and is the only thing I have from the photography studio. As this blog exist for an assignment I need to post something but I didn't want to post an image of my face online. So I got permission from my lecturer to censor my face in any way I wanted since he saw the actual photo. So shout out to my lecturer for being a chill guy. I was going to just put a black bar over my face but he suggested I do it in a creative way :)

Brick Laws, Title, 2026, photographic paper, paper, and marker, 13x10cm

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Photography process documentation

Title

This photo started with my lecturer taking a headshot of me and converting them into film negatives to put in the enlarger

myself operating the enlarger

we used photographic paper that became darker in areas with more light exposure so the image would become inverted once it was developed

it was developed in a series of chemical baths in the dark room

this is a test strip that I made to see what my exposure time should be. Each section (which is hard to see because the scan is blurry) lasted 3 additional seconds as it gets darker and my time for the final photo was 15 seconds

i also made a few photos where a placed flower shaped beads on top of the photographic so i’d end up with white flowers in my hair but i didn’t end up liking the way they turned out

Final

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Ink!Sans linocut

The character depicted is Ink!Sans (or Ink), a fan character made by @comyet for the videogame Undertale.

Brick Laws, Ink!Sans linocut, 2025, ink on paper, 30x40cm

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printmaking process documentation

Ink!Sans linocut

initial sketch

I then flipped the sketch and transferred it to the lino using graphite paper.

I chose to carve Ink due to the “tattoos” on his ribcage. I wanted to challenge myself to see how fine I could make the details within each of the swirls. I used him to practice control with the carving tool in both the fine details and in large smooth shapes. I struggled heavily with carving the design due to the smudged and sketchy pencil lines. Halfway through I took a photo of the linocut and drew over it digitally in order to finalize the design and better. Going forward when creating a linocut, I will draw a sketch then scan it and draw over it digitally.

once he was fully carved I created several prints of various colors

using the printing press

video description: myself operating a printing press that I roll over the covered print an back again. I then lift the covering layers then peel the off white/cream colored paper off the lino carving to reveal a successful linoprint in red ink

test prints and finals

Finals

Witness my Horrible Fucking Creeture

This drypoint was made to experiment with tetra pak etch printing for the first time. The prints are made by scratching with a pointed stick onto the silver lining of the inside of a carboard milk carton to create an intaglio print. As this was my first time using this medium I focused more on experimenting with tools and techniques that creating a polished final artwork.

I drew directly onto the tetra pak with no sketch

Etching

Final

Behold a Man

I started with a digital drawing i did a number of months ago then sketched it onto the linoleum. This time it was covered with a layer of red ink to make it easier to tell where you had already carved whilst also making any drawing on it more visible.

this was an exercise in simplifying a drawing into black and white

beginning carving stage/sketch

finished carving

final

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Pink Lady

This is a realistic looking ceramic apple. I tried to make it look realistic enough so that I could place it in a fruit bowl and trick my family into thinking it was real (which was successful).

Brick Laws, Pink Lady, 2025, ceramic, 7x7x7cm

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Fish bowl

The fish depicted on this bowl is a coelacanth. Coelacanths were believed to have gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago but in 1938 were discovered to still be a living species without changing. They are my favorite fish, and I chose to depict them to try creating a detailed design with sgraffito

it is made in dedication to the account @fuckyeahcoelacanths

Brick Laws, Fish Bowl, 2025, ceramic, 6x14.5x14.5cm

Process documentation

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SELF-ISH bird

This is a ceramic water jug made to look like a bird. The complex patterns were inspired by a combination of the works of Julian Francis Miholics (@pansylair) (specifically Allosaurus fragilis) and the cover artwork for the album “SELF-ISH” by Will Wood and the Tapeworms.

Brick Laws, SELF-ISH bird, 2025, ceramic, 17.5x8x8cm

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Brick Laws, *this content has been removed due to copyright*, 2026, ceramic, 8.5x8.5x8.5cm

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Pink Lady

I made them to practice the pinch pot technique. I made two pinch pots and joined them to make a hollow sphere, then smoothed and sculpting it further into an apple. I painted with colored slip with a dry brush technique to create realistic color variation and used a real apple for reference.

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The pokeball was made with the same method but was focused on carving and painting the additional shapes. this also provided practice in creating a sphere. this one was much smoother

beginning colour slip painting

Glaze

Final after firing

SELF-ISH Bird

This project was made to practice the slab rolling method for creating ceramics. It was made be rolling out clay with a slab roller then cutting it into a rectangle to then roll into a tube. 4 small cuts were made on one end, folded like a box then pressed together to create the bottom. Then it was sculpted to create the lip of the jug/beak of the bird and its eyes. I painted the patterns with colored slip in order to practice line control and creating detail on pottery.

this is a photo of the slab roller

final

Fish Bowl

this bowl was made with the coil technique. it started with a disk of clay then i rolled out long snakes of clay the where coiled around the edge to build up the walls, then were smoothed and shaped

i then painted it with coloured slip then used to sgraffito method to scratch in the design of a coelacanth

it was then glazed and fired

final

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xurkitreeking “eyes of the claydol”, aluminium, brass, dimensions 2.2cm x 5.9cm

in jewellery i made this bracelet inspired by claydol. it was very intricate especially considering this is like the 3rd thing i’ve ever made (and the last lol i’m not continuing with jewellery i found the process very frustrating)

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Process documentation

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Jewelry explorations documentation 2026

Eyes of the Claydol

to create eyes of the claydol i used the same method of cutting out textured paper to create texture with the roller printer. I cut identical circles and used a hole punch for the center

when cutting the circles out of the metal my lecturer operated a circle cutting press for me (as i was not allowed to) to ensure they were all identical

Eyes of the Claydol

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Rectangle necklace

Rectangle necklace, 2.5x11cm, aluminum, 2025

Process documentation

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Fucking Ring

This fucking ring is sized to only fit around my middle finger. I made it in a fit of frustration in response to an incredibly complex design failing disastrously.

Fucking Ring, 2025, aluminum, 20x20x15mm

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