Homescar Studio @homescar-maker - Tumblr Blog

Hi welcome to my art blog! I suspect I'll mostly be posting ceramics, but you might also encounter painting, sketches, and various other media.

If you see a piece you're interested in owning just shoot me a dm. Clay commissions open, let's talk!

What's a homescar?

I'm so glad you asked! Homescars are divets in rocks along beaches created by the repeated movement of limpets. When the tide is high they wander around scraping algae off the rocks and then follow their slime trails back to their exact starting point to settle in for low tide. Over time, the repeated “settling” motions create a homescar that perfectly fits the shape of their shell. Homescars provide a sort of barrier that holds in sea water but allows oxygen to pass through to keep the limpet alive and safe while the tide is out.

#pinned intro

sea fairy circles

forgot to post this sake set because I was frantically trying to keep up with my show so here we go

glaze porn

#traditional art #artists on tumblr #ceramics #clay #pottery #barnacles #art

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Behold! My barnacle army has risen!!

these beads were for a collaboration with a local trash weaver (she weaves with trash, mostly commercial fishing waste)

now I get to play with placement!

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whale complete ✅

frogwhomp

OPEN CALL FOR ART!

Ive started an online art gallery for fun! If you want to submit artwork based on themes (released occasionally) you can find them here: https://digigallie.crd.co/

Its a free entry, as long as the artwork can be hosted online it can work! (video, photo, audio, etc) and open to all artists internationally! (i am totally down for anything that may need html embedding as well!) ive got two open now, im only accepting 8 pieces per each show thats up since this is my first time coordinating something like this online!

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“Hey can you message me? I have something important to tell you its about to your account, but i cant message you idk whyy?? 💔”

Good news! I am going to make it even harder for you to message me ❤️

anyone know what kind of slug this is?

#this one’s for the tdick enthusiasts #traditional art #artists on tumblr #ceramics #clay #pottery #clay beasts #slugs #transgender

Behold! My barnacle army has risen!!

these beads were for a collaboration with a local trash weaver (she weaves with trash, mostly commercial fishing waste)

now I get to play with placement!

#traditional art #artists on tumblr #ceramics #clay #pottery #carving #grey whale #gray whale #barnacles #weaving

asking important questions, like what if a cat was also a goose?

#traditional art #artists on tumblr #ceramics #clay #pottery #clay beasts #cats #geese

just unloaded a fresh batch of barnacled cups & mugs!

#ceramics #clay #pottery #traditional art #artists on tumblr #barnacles #pacific acorn barnacle #pnw

i have become a barnacle factory

#But soon this commission will be complete and I can get back to what’s truly important #beasts

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took a glass fusing class and went a little overboard with the iridescents…

my goal was to not have to cut very much so these are all pieces I pulled out of the scraps bins

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This was my first time fusing glass so i don’t know a ton, but since @thingsandsuchperchance asked about process here’s a little bit (I didn’t take many progress pictures sorry):

the studio had a bunch of different glass to choose from, ranging from full sheets of colored glass to thin sort of filaments only about a millimeter thick (some were straight and some were wavy) to various scraps and doodads left from previous projects. We all started with a big piece of clear glass as the base for whatever we fused and were basically set loose to grab whatever glass looked interesting. tbh I got a bit overwhelmed by all the color and texture choices and was going to do something non representational until I saw all these iridescent black scraps in jars at which point I immediately knew I was gonna do a raven.

there are 2 ways to cut glass, there’s something called nippers that look like this:

nippers are good for very small/short cuts but usually the cuts end up a bit curved. I used the nippers a lot to get things to fit together.

the other option for cutting larger pieces or more complicated shapes invlolved scoring where you wanted the glass cut and then basically strategically breaking it using what I can only describe as a set of flat pliers with one side flat and one side slightly curved. The curve put enough pressure on the scored glass to break it cleanly along the score lines. I only did one or two cuts like this because I’m lazy and what’s the point of using up scraps if you just create more scrpas

most of the class felt like collage but with glass. I laid down the wiggly lines before I rlly knew what the rest would look like and then just sort of dug through bins and jars of glass for shapes and colors until I found vaguely raven-shaped pieces. If things moved around too much I just glued them down and the glue burned off in the kiln. Here’s how it looked before the kiln:

the iridescence definitely came out more in the kiln which was great! To hang it I just made a little loop out of copper wire and fused it between the base glass and a thick piece on top. For the fuse they were fired to cone 018 which is ~1400 Fahrenheit or ~760 Celsius.

wow this got long, sorry! Hope it was informative at least.

took a glass fusing class and went a little overboard with the iridescents…

my goal was to not have to cut very much so these are all pieces I pulled out of the scraps bins

#glass art #fused glass #traditional art #artists on tumblr #raven #corvids

wow thank you everybody who’s followed or interacted with my work in the last couple weeks! Im still a certified Small Blog so I see & appreciate every comment. It genuinely makes me so happy reading what people put in the tags yall are so kind and enthusiastic. Ok that’s it bye! Thank u!!!

and thank u @claypigeonpottery for occasionally rebogging something and making my notes do this: