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willow - ceramicist, among other things - big fan of salamanders and weird puppets

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btw did you know Seattle now has a zine store

...b/c it totally does & it whips

some of my fave pickups from opening weekend:

94 feet and a peach basket by jeremiah wistrom: did a DOUBLE TAKE when i opened this one & was like holy shit i know that basketball court!!! i've BEEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD!!!  and the accompanying writeup was like "yeah i was eating a sandwich in boston's north end & did a double take when i turned a corner and there was a basketball court shoved right up in there?" and i'm like I KNOW THE SANDWICH YOU ATE haha

but yeah—beyond that initial shock of startled & delighted recognition, it turns out this whole book is a photomemoir of sorts, in which the author's taken all these (cool/interesting/from-unusual-angles/etc) photographs of random basketball courts in all these places he's visited, all across the country, and written up a little bit about the history/context/etc of each one, what it was like to shoot some hoops there, what brought them there, etc, and... just a lot of love & interest & local color in it, i really adored reading through the thing

it reminded me a lot of what i love about birding: like birding, i guess you can in fact do basketball Everywhere and just by doing it you learn a little bit about Everywhere in the process.

weird tigers by kiriska: AS ADVERTISED. 10/10 delightful. i love every weird-ass tiger in these pages

what horse are you? by aya borucki: i'm a friesian :)

ἄγχω (ankhō) by s. barnes: i love it when things are claustrophobic & paranoid & bad!  spend the Night Before Battle inside the trojan horse with Odysseus, in glorious black & orange :)))))

i picked up a bunch of other zines too and spent too much money ahlgiehalgie... no time to photograph them all, but, there's unsettlingly-illustrated toxic fish!  there's traumatized geese!  there's surprisingly-affecting poetry!  it's all good shit

so yeah!!! go check out the Paper Pusher's Print Shop if you're in the area, it's a cool spot

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I met one of the organizers this past weekend at the Seattle Art Book Fair, so i want to add a little more info about this cool shop! It's a pop-up shop as part of a Seattle vacant storefront project.

Address

1200 5th Avenue Seattle, WA 98101

Hours

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: 11 am – 6 pm

Thursday: 11 am – 6 pm

Friday: 11 am – 6 pm

Saturday: 11 am – 5 pm

Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm

Because it's a pop-up shop, sadly this cute little store has an end date. 😥 Visit it before...

September 15, 2026

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btw did you know Seattle now has a zine store

...b/c it totally does & it whips

some of my fave pickups from opening weekend:

94 feet and a peach basket by jeremiah wistrom: did a DOUBLE TAKE when i opened this one & was like holy shit i know that basketball court!!! i've BEEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD!!!  and the accompanying writeup was like "yeah i was eating a sandwich in boston's north end & did a double take when i turned a corner and there was a basketball court shoved right up in there?" and i'm like I KNOW THE SANDWICH YOU ATE haha

but yeah—beyond that initial shock of startled & delighted recognition, it turns out this whole book is a photomemoir of sorts, in which the author's taken all these (cool/interesting/from-unusual-angles/etc) photographs of random basketball courts in all these places he's visited, all across the country, and written up a little bit about the history/context/etc of each one, what it was like to shoot some hoops there, what brought them there, etc, and... just a lot of love & interest & local color in it, i really adored reading through the thing

it reminded me a lot of what i love about birding: like birding, i guess you can in fact do basketball Everywhere and just by doing it you learn a little bit about Everywhere in the process.

weird tigers by kiriska: AS ADVERTISED. 10/10 delightful. i love every weird-ass tiger in these pages

what horse are you? by aya borucki: i'm a friesian :)

ἄγχω (ankhō) by s. barnes: i love it when things are claustrophobic & paranoid & bad!  spend the Night Before Battle inside the trojan horse with Odysseus, in glorious black & orange :)))))

i picked up a bunch of other zines too and spent too much money ahlgiehalgie... no time to photograph them all, but, there's unsettlingly-illustrated toxic fish!  there's traumatized geese!  there's surprisingly-affecting poetry!  it's all good shit

so yeah!!! go check out the Paper Pusher's Print Shop if you're in the area, it's a cool spot

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biiiig raku snail

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comets

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can you post some pictures of those creature vases with flowers in them?

lmao i really shouldve taken some but i forgot and also then went to california for 3 months. i will take some pics with flowers when i'm back in the studio and (spoilers!) working on making an early summer shop update happen

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Your work is so cute!! Is that terracotta clay?

i use a lot of red clays but they tend to be various stonewares, so i think technically not terracotta? but a similar vibe for sure

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hello! how do you get such clean lines for your pride sticker creatures and your tarot art?

this is Not Normal and it also is Not Efficient but i literally just freehand it all. all my art is freehanded rasters i just use a flat round brush and am very precise

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apologies if you've already answered this elsewhere, i did a search of your blog but couldn't find anything! i've been so inspired by your selkie/kelpie and other woodwork pieces and wanted to try to explore the medium, but i have a few questions for you if you don't mind: 1. what thickness of wood did you cut? I see that you glued 3 pieces together for the kelpie, did you scroll saw each one and then glue it together? that must have been so hard on your hands.... 2. was there a reason why you used housepaint and not acrylic? asking bc i have a bunch of acrylic paint but curious if you had a specific reason or if it was what you had lying around....

3. do you have a preferred sealant for your pieces and whether you prefer to use matte/satin/gloss?

thank you for sharing your art with us!! been cool reading your answers to the recent art asks, i'm glad you're still around :)

i've tried a few different methods, the pieces that are 3 glued together pieces are actually laser cut! hence why i had to glue 3 pieces of wood together, because laser cutters have a pretty shallow maximum thickness they can cut. the ones i scroll saw are i think just whatever typical ~1" width lumber comes in

yeah, i basically just use house paint because i have a lot of it lying around because its what i paint murals with, and i always have leftovers. acrylic would be fine, too, or you could even stain or woodburn stuff

i think this is the exact sealant i use:

matte vs satin vs gloss though is just a matter of taste, though glossier finishes tend to be a little tougher. you may also not need to seal it depending on the paint that you're using, but i found that my house paints can chip/peel off easily if i don't seal them so i like to use a clear topcoat.

best of luck with the woodworking! i miss it, maybe i'll fire up the scroll saw sometime this summer...

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popped back into polymer clay for a little bit to make a weird snail

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weird vases. this time with PAWS

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clown mug for a friend

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pelican ring holder/jewelry dish for my gf. first time melting broken glass down in the kiln - it very fun and turned out well!

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three little deadwood dryads

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redwood dryad

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dryad jewelry holder for a friend. equipped with lots of little snaggy branches to hang things on, and holes for earrings to go in. and of course his dish

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an oak dryad. very happy with the texture on this fellow