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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · 29d

I am so happy that you said that because that's such an amazing setting to imagine my work in -- maybe I'll make something for one of the LARPs I play. 🤔

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · 29d

Okay,okay, not end of day but end of weekend. I carved them that day but then let clay distract me from my social media duties. Still working on Fire and Earth, mugs this time. I try to group all my black clay pieces into one chunk of a few weeks right before I clean my wheel and studio. #pottery

Two black clay teapots at the greenware stage. They are both carved with flame motifs on top and bottom, as well as on the spout and lid. You can see part of my untidy studio in the background, please pretend you don't.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Sep 10

Making teapots this week -- I wanted to document the process of a Fire and Earth teapot. This isn't carved yet, check back by the end of the day. 🤣

#pottery #lgbtqartist #wheelthrownpottery #renaissancefaire

Two lidded jars made of black clay sit on a wareboard. Complex teapot spouts are hardening while being supported with sponges nearby.

A black clay teapot having its spout attached. It sits in the potter's lap.

Two black clay teapots with handles and spouts attached on a wareboard. The attachments are supported by studio sponges while they dry and harden.

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nao 💀 exam hell 🔜 gwf @elidibus.amaurot.social · Sep 7

Fuck it, hot chocolate time! Using this really cool mug I got at the Renn faire from @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social that’s based on historical mug designs! Ceramics in archaeology are so fun, pottery that’s used and loved by people during their everyday lives, and we can do the same!

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Aug 14

Working on a commission for @faeble-larp.bsky.social ! These wonderful people are putting together one of the taverns that we'll all be hanging out at, and I am really looking forward to some mead with friends!

#pottery #lgbtqartist #lgbtartist #wheelthrownpottery

A leatherhard mug made of white clay. Carving guidelines have been sketched in for a chevron. Inside the chevron are the words 'honeyhand's mead' and a bee has been sketched in as well.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Aug 3

I raku'ed!!

An altered form raku vase. It is glazed in reduced copper matte glaze on the bottom and a reduced copper glossy glaze on top.

A raku fired vase in coppers, golds, and blues. There is a dramatic soot mark on the bottom third of the vase.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Aug 1

Every time I decide to quit this runny drippy mess of a layering glaze the kiln spits out one of these and I take it back. It's a toxic relationship but the highs are so good.

A stoneware mug made of Standard 112 speckled clay. It is glazed in matte black, olive green, and powder blue.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 29

New witch in the All Witches Welcome series! Can't believe it took me this long to make this one -- I wonder what other obvious witch is lurking?

#pottery #lgbtqartist

A stoneware mug. A white slip has been brushed across a speckled tan clay body, and the words "Crystal Witch" are carved into the raw white slip. Glaze has been inlaid into the lettering. It is glazed in floating blue glaze and layered with a frosty clear.

A speckled tan clay mug, glazed in floating blue and layered with a frosty clear.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 25

He made it home from @drachenfest-us.bsky.social and through both firings. Guess I have to keep him now.

A froggy little ceramic monster incense holder. Glazed in glossy blue-black.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 19

These are great tips! I'll throw a little thicker than usual.

Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 18

NGL, if I didn't live in a capitalist hellscape I would give my art away. So, I'll undergo the hell of deciding how to value a piece of original art until after The Revolution and I don't have to anymore.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 18

Pottergeist?

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 18

I love a good crackle, so delicious. I want to be a potter poltergeist now!

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is fabulous. It's nice to hear that other artists like vibe-based commissions as well so I'm . . . not . . . weird . . . Oh hell, I just invalidated my whole comment.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 18

Bluesky #pottery peeps I need your help! I am doing my first #raku firing workshop 8/3. I have to get 10 pieces made and bisqued before then, bonus difficulty points for trying to get restocked for my next show at the same time. What are good forms for novice raku? Tips? Tricks? Pic For Algo.

A hand-built incense stick holder. It is unfired light brown clay, and sculpted to look like a little froggy monster head. Its tongue is lolling out of its mouth as the ash catcher. You can see a burned-out incense stick sticking up from the top of its head like a horn.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 18

I have my own studio, but I still am a member of my local community studio. Every so often, someone donates buckets of mystery glaze to the studio. This gorgeous purple was marked "pink", so this was a wonderful kiln surprise.

#pottery #lgbtartist

A small handleless cup made of white stoneware clay. It is glazed in robin egg blue and a gloriously crazed purple

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jul 15

Where have I been since getting home from Drachenfest? In the studio! I have been head-down in the clay and I will be starting rolling some kilns at the end of this week or the start of next. Next show is Warriors In Bloom near Richmond VA - come touch the pots!

#pottery #lgbtqartist

Shelves in a pottery studio full of greenware mugs.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jun 21

Advancer kiln shelves and a diamond grinding disc saved this mug. I am so fortunate to have loved ones and patrons who helped me get my Advancers. Corderite shelves, even with kiln wash, would have fused with the mug and cracked the bottom.

#pottery #lgbtqartist #lgbtartist

The bottom of a mug that has had glaze run down off the pot and pool underneath it it. The glaze is bubbled and cracked and sharp and dangerous.

A stoneware mug, glazed in blue with a black slip-trailed dragon. The glaze has run off the foot of the mug and formed a sharp, dangerous crust at the bottom.

The bottom of the same mug, which is now sanded clean. It shows the smooth white clay.

A stoneware mug, glazed in blue. There's a slip trailed black clay dragon.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jun 20

I feel this in my soul so hard.

Translation for non-Spanish speakers: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade"
These are the lemons life gave me

El espía seroserosiete @espiasordo.bsky.social · Jun 20

“Si la vida te da limones, haz limonada”
Los limones que me da la vida:

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hooking a clay 3D printer to ChatGPT feels like a masterclass in "AI doesn't understand physics" so at least it will be cost ineffective to try and print stolen work. They'll have to keep stealing from us via good old slipcasting instead. 🙃

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jun 20

If you're down for queer Leftist potters with mostly functional work, I'd love an include. :)

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jun 19

It really is. Someone needs to start breeding for longevity in fancy rats.

Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thank you so much! If there's enough interest I might do a collection of mugs with different rats on the handles. A Dumbo Rat would be too cute.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jun 18

The rat tracks mug is out!

I had pet rats for around 6 years and they make the best pets. Smart, loving, trainable. Only flaw is that they only live for 2-3 years. This little rat is painted as a hooded rat in honor of one of my girls past.

#pottery #lgbtqartist #lgbtartist

A stoneware mug glazed in matte black and glossy ocean blue. Red rat footprints are carved in a winding path around the mug. A tiny sculpture of a white rat with a brown head and a pink tail sits on the handle as a thumbrest.

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Five Goblins Pottery @fivegoblinspottery.bsky.social · Jun 18

I am excited to be there! I love being part of a festival LARP in my home state.

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