Sam Youles

Thanks Sophie!

Green Man ceramic sculpture withe a piece broken off.

The perils of using a community kiln! Somebody else's pot exploded and took a chunk of my Green Man with it.

#pottery #ceramics #kilndisaster

Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested

Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested

We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly

Handmade ceramic Green Man wall hanging.

Green Man sculpture finished and drying ready to be fired.

#pottery #sculpture #ceramics #pottersofbluesky

The sophisticated COLIBRE simulations finally land on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.21126. Treating these with sonification, we can get new intuition for galaxy evolution to augment our visuals. Sound on for the explainer vid, visit the site for more! colibre.strw.leidenuniv.nl/videos.html 🔭🧪

Three handmade ceramic mugs, glazed in Copper and black.

Playing with Amaco's Ancient Copper glazed.

#ceramics #pottery #pottersofbluesky

I can think of a few people who might be improved by the process ...

The back of a partially hollowed out portrait bust.

Thehollowed-out portrait bust from underneath.

The edge of the cut-out section is scored and painted with slip (liquid clay) to enable the bust to be reassembled.

The bust is reassembled, ready for the join to be smoothed over.

Hollowing out the sculpture and sticking it back together.

#pottery #ceramics #sculpture #pottersofbluesky

Life-size clay bust of a woman's head. The clay is still soft, and the back of her head has been sliced off so that the bust can be hollowed out.

The clay bust from behind, with the region to be removed marked out.

Some of the clay has been removed to reveal the newspaper-stuffed bag where her brain would be.

The newspaper 'brain' is removed.

Today, I cut off the back of her head and scooped out her brains.

Four small ceramic vases, glazed in red, green, yellow and blue. They have curved facets carved into the surface.

Faceted swirl bud vases
#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #handmade

My sculpture giving her neighbour side eye.

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Me neither. It looks like the pot shrank, but the engobe didn't.

My sculpture at the end of day 2 of the workshop. Still needs a bit more work!

#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky

A strange thing happened in the kiln today. I don't know why the engobe on the bottom of the mug behaved like this. A friend had a pot with the same engobe in the same kiln, and it came out completely normal 🤷‍♀️

#pottery #ceramics

Ramen bowl.
#pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky

Trans Pride and Pride flag mugs

Trans Pride and Pride flag mugs.

#ceramics #pottery #handmade #pottersofbluesky
#pride #transpride

Handmade ceramic mug in creamy-white with mottled blue glazed on the top half.

The latest offering from the kiln. Glazed is 3x Honey Flux with 2-3 coats Storm near the rim.
#ceramics #pottery #pottersofbluesky #mug

Two handmade ceramic candlesticks with a vertical concertina shape, glazed in bright yellow.

Sunny candlesticks on a gorgeous sunny day

#ceramics #pottery #candlesticks #handmade #pottersofbluesky

Birds eye view is handmade ceramic bowl, glazed in glossy blue and green

Side-on view of handmade ceramic bowl, black on the outside and blue-green on the inside

Birds eye view of handmade ceramic bowl, glazed in stripes of blue, speckled blue, and white.

Side-on view of handmade ceramic bowl, glazed in stripes of blue, speckled blue, and white.

Small bowls
#ceramics #pottery #pottersofbluesky

a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames Alt: a woman in a black dress says "it - it - the f - it - flam - flames on the side of my face", while gesturing at her face.

Just got warned that the new "Voice Isolation" feature in Teams, if turned on and trained on a male voice, will filter out all the women in the room, while still allowing the men in the room to be heard online.

*clears throat*

IF YOU USE A BIASED TRAINING SET, YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE BIASED.

Feeding frenzy!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Handmade ceramic vase, glazed in horizontal sections of white, white with black speckles and black.

Chunky vase. Glazed with #Amaco Snow over Obsidian

#ceramics #pottery #pottersofbluesky

A tall ceramic jar with a domed lid. It is glazed in speckled blue with white stars and a cartoon of a Blue skinned goddess sitting cross legged.

A lidded jars for storing tampons. #ceramics #pottery #pottersofbluesky

So good. 🤡

@brendanvduke.bsky.social

A few dozen tadpoles in shallow water in a garden pond.

Tadpoles are doing well.

Putting a disabled adult into a home costs £65k per year, plus. By taking away the £12k that carers get to support disabled living at home, the government risks higher costs in the long run. Carers are under supported, not overpaid. This is such a cruel false economy.

“Devastating benefits bill” says Starmer
Yet it’s the lowest in Europe and 42% of the ‘Welfare’ spend is on Pensions 🤔

Handmade ceramic candlestick with a blue-green satin glaze.

#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #candlestick