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Kendra McCartney Pottery

@kendramccartney.bsky.social

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She/ her Magical maker of ghosts, monsters and storybook pottery. Adding a bit of magic into the world ✨ www.kendramccartney.com

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Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Mar 26

The first online shop update of the year is full of new BoOfriends!! Set your clocks for this Friday at 6 pm CST!

www.kendramccartney.com

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Apr 12

Art is a connection between people, the artist, crafter, creator, and whoever comes in contact with it. It’s what drew me to clay and ceramics. The long standing history with a medium than spans the ages of humanity. It has soul and connection.

Art is humanity and we don’t need to forget that.

A woman in black overalls torn at the knees with an orange shirt and gray apron is sitting on boxes of clay. She has tinted purple and pink glasses and short pigtails. She is holding a round wooden board with a freshly thrown clay bowl on it. She is excitedly pointing at all the boxes of clay she is sitting on.

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Apr 12

What I create is not soulless. My art is not mass produced and spit out to be a forgotten trend and rapid depleted dopamine hit like AI content.

My art is handmade. I can’t readily produce it and the slow small batch production I do is all done by me and occasionally a studio assistant.

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Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Apr 12

It’s soulless and another mass produced cookie cutter product. We won’t get into the environmental and morality issues with it. As an artist, it’s exhausting and makes me wonder what’s the point of my art.

Why bother?

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Apr 12

I have seen so much AI “art”/ filters lately on my feed. It’s stolen Ghibli art impersonation being used as propaganda, action figures, and highly filtered profile photos. It’s products, homes, animals, and scenes that don’t exist.

AI is all over the place and I’m so tired of it.

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rae @superaenbow.bsky.social · Apr 10

fellow artists who are sad or panicked, here's a few things I'm going to do to keep going as best I can just in case! there's also a lot of eco-friendly recs here that I hope can help, even if it's just a little! c: 🧵

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Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Apr 9

Light weight advanced kiln shelves for my studio! Plus a separate building for my ceramic studio

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Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Apr 9

New little RainBOO friend sets are getting photographed today! The sets will be available for pre0rder on Friday at noon CST and will be 📦 by the end of May. Each little BoOfriend is hand sculpted and are fired twice in my kiln. No two boos are exactly alike! #whimsygoth #handmadeceramics #trinkets

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Mar 26

The first online shop update of the year is full of new BoOfriends!! Set your clocks for this Friday at 6 pm CST!

www.kendramccartney.com

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Feb 26

These new BoOfriends made their debut at Lubbock-Con this past weekend in Lubbock, TX. This was our 3rd year doing this show! We cosplayed as Megumin and Kazuma from KonoSuba.

#ceramics #animecosplay #cosplay #nerdy #ghostart #slowmade

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Feb 13

A few photos from a full kiln load of boos that bisque fired on Wednesday! #ceramics #bisquekiln #slowmade

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Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Feb 5

New in the studio, BoOfriends with patterned sheets made with underglaze transfers from Elan Transfers and Sanbao Studio

#ceramics #clay #underglazetransfers #elantransfers #sanbaostudio #ghosts #cuteart

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Feb 4

One of my favorite designs! I’ll be making at least one more of these for Lubbock Con!

#ceramics #cuteart #ghosts #ghostart #clay

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Feb 3

Lucky Boos in the works 🍀

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𝓕𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮 ✩ Comms OPEN @fablefulart.bsky.social · Jan 31

Hi hi! I made an updated brochure version of ‘How to Resistant an Oligarchy’ that you can download, print, and share physically:

🤍 Fixed an important typo
🤍 Added some info
🤍 Clarified details better

www.canva.com/design/DAGdx...

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Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Feb 2

Making art to keep my sanity

Making art as an act of rebellion as a childless cat lady

Making art as an act of hope

Making art to bring people a moment of joy

Making art to confuse archeologist in the future of why someone made thousands of little ghost sculptures
#ceramics #artist #clay

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Feb 1

Some of the new BoOfriends in the works for Lubbock-Con! The ones with little toppers on their heads are part of the Build a Boo Box that will be available at Lubbock-Con later this month!

#ceramics #ghostart #cuteart #findingjoyinlittlethings

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Jan 31

More rainBoos coming soon!! My sister and husband organized all the boos by color at the Goblin Market.

The world is literally loosing color from cars, restaurants, clothes, interiors on homes and personally I want my life more colorful, not less.

So more colorful BoOfriends and art this year!

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thank you! It was definitely a process! I’m glad it worked out!

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Jan 29

Thank you for the recommendation! I appreciate it!

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Jan 29

Doing a few online classes is something I want to do while I learn! This is way out of my wheelhouse but I’m already loving it!

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Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Jan 29

I took a few days off from the clay studio to recover from my show this past weekend. I’m learning to use procreate and draw on an iPad! I’m pretty excited about this little character and her cat! #artist #procreate #ceramicartist #illustration

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Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Jan 27

Before and After Glaze firing, my experiment worked!

I mixed each Amaco celadon glaze with the glaze next to it in a 75/25, 50/50, & 25/75 % ratio. It was a time consuming process but well worth the experience! #ceramics #art #amacoglazes

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Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Jan 24

Kiln is firing new pieces for the Goblin Market this Saturday!!

It’s important to take a breather from the news (not put your head in the sand). I know it’s heavy & overwhelming but your nervous system needs a break.

I’ll be here with more art and memes. Now go drink some water.

❤️ Kendra

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Jan 23

It is going to help so much!! I can’t believe I waited so long to finally get one to use

Kendra McCartney Pottery @kendramccartney.bsky.social · Jan 22

Timelapse of my first digital coloring sheet. Made with procreate ❤️

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