#ceramic sculpture

[cedar-rayne]

✧ sturgeon ✧

sneak peak of a new sculpture coming to my shop! this is the underglaze painting before the clear glaze is applied.

[moldspace]

hungry critters

[miamaimania]

Adrian Arleo ✺ Ceramic — hand-encrusted form

[spacerockband]

Quetzalcoatlus northropi and Xiphactinus, a commission for @velvetladybird

(penny in the last image for scale)

[blue-nebraska]

experimenting with some great blue heron wall hangings 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

[onlytiktoks]

[battiegutz]

kept forgetting to take pics of this guy but i like how it came out :3

[claypigeonpottery]

@unwanted-dandelion-seeds

(about this guy)

a kiln god is a small clay sculptural creature that stays on/in/near a kiln while it’s firing, to watch over the pottery inside and protect it

mine are all vaguely humanoid and holding pottery, but they can be anything

a lot of people leave their kiln gods unglazed, and only ever make one or two. because I work with a shared kiln, my kiln gods have to be inside the kiln so they don’t get bumped or broken, so it makes more sense to glaze them and keep making more

(^this one I kept, she lives on my pottery desk)

people have lots of little traditions around kilns and pottery. there are so many variables to successfully finishing a piece of pottery, and many of the steps are out of our control. it’s nice to have a kiln god watching over our work

if you take a pottery class, your teacher might mention the kiln gods. for some potters/studios they’re more of a concept than anything physical

what can I say, humans just love to make little guys