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Potter and art director keeping her eyes open for inspiring things 🌞 ig & cara: afitzpottery
What do my hands say about me and what I've done? Haystack experiment from the Kevin Snipes workshop, side 1.
Playing with layering and technique experimentation. This was a vase but it fell over and broke just before I could finish it.
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#pottersofbsky #narrativeceramics #surfacedesign
Driving up to Haystack School of Crafts this morning for 2 weeks with the amazing Kevin Snipes ❤️
The last time I spent this much time with clay was probably 7 years ago before going back to full-time design work. I'm over packed and ready to explore 🚙
#illustratedceramics #pottersofbluesky
Fresh picked mugs! 🍓
#pinchedpottery #illustratedceramics #handmadehudsonvalley
It's fun to explore different flowers, how they can change the composition and narrative. There is a balance between their aesthetics and what I ultimately enjoy drawing & painting that I need to strike. You've got to enjoy the journey to the finished artwork 🐰
#pottersofbluesky #illustratedpottery
There's just something about this color palette that I love!
#hudsonvalleyartist #illustratedceramics #redclaylove
New lil squirrel-friend!
#animalillustrations #illustratedceramics #redclaylove
A favorite vase and some beautiful shadows 🪻
#hudsonvalleyhandmade #redclaylove #handbuiltpottery
Made a few berry bowls this Spring that I just love ❤️ This one's got a sneaky bun looking to nab some tasty treats!
#pinchedpottery #hudsonvalleyhandmade #cone6clay
Inspired by vintage plant illustrations ❤️
Hand-pinched and coiled, flowers holding flowers.
Inspired by vintage plant illustrations ❤️
Hand-pinched and coiled, flowers holding flowers.
Bahaha this is the most unhinged thing I've heard in a while 🤣 lightening my mood this morning!!
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TO THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO DIE Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here - through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.
On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.
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Textures and tiny worlds. Trying to stay present by taking time to notice more. #naturaltexture #woodswalks
06.02.2025 00:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They’re eating the checks, they’re eating the Balances
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A red clay, hand-made mug decorated with a blue mouse riding a dandelion seed. Dandelion flowers and leaves are interspersed.
A red clay vase filled with a dried flower & grasses bouquet. The vase is decorated with large-petaled flowers and sits on a moss-covered riser in a tent display.
A red clay, hand-made cup with an illustrated window showing a full moon overlooking a cornflower meadow.
Sharing a few goodies...
It's been tough to find my feet back in the studio these past few years. Starting 2025 with fresh eyes and perhaps a bit less criticism on works past.
#pottersofbluesky
Fantastic reminder ❤️
04.02.2025 11:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Collecting a catalogue of inspiring and beautiful things to engage with...
04.02.2025 11:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh! This sounds like such a delight! I may check it out...
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