Sett "Apples" Balise

Hard frost last night. It's all dead.

This post is how I realized I forgot to do that. As usual, anyone or anything that relies on me is going to die.

This year has mostly been about rejection. From social groups, from shows, from participating in humanity in general. My winter schedule is empty. It's been a week since I spoke a word to another person. Life has become so hollow it doesn't qualify as such. Here's a mug. #ceramics #pottery #art

Teapot featuring the Tarantula Nebula

Teapot featuring Messier 78

Teapot featuring the Eagle Nebula

Teapot featuring the Fox Fur Nebula

Nebula

One of my favorite things to paint has always been a Nebula Teapot 🌌

#SpacetoberChallenge
#SciArt

Geometric dragon travel mug keeps the rain out of your coffee. It's been a long drought, hopefully it doesn't last much longer. #ceramics #pottery #art

The Nautilus shells on this ceramic mug mirror the spiral handle and ocean blue glaze #ceramics #pottery #art

Forest cup. The red sumac backdrop has already faded to brown. Winter is coming. #ceramics #pottery #art

Washing the glass ash off a copper red ceramic dragon mug #ceramics #pottery #art

Last day in harbor park in Rockland for the year. Autumn is going quickly. #ceramics #pottery #art

It's just never been a problem--usually when a glaze doesn't work for this, it just doesn't cut at all. I've only found a couple that it really works well on.

Nope, at the very end after the glaze is on.

A little stack of ceramic plant mugs with engravings of ballpoint pen drawings of things growing in the background. Very mixed media in their creation. #ceramics #pottery #art

Old picture of Grayswandir I forgot I drew #amber #zelazny #fantasy #art

It’s crazy this is my most popular design. #octopussink #pottery #sink #vesselsink

An AI produced article about how being able to write articles is still worth something. God damn, we've really hit peak irony.

Time to repair my decaying home enough to get it through another winter, restock inventory, and prepare for another long, dark, empty season. Most of this life has been a lonely, miserable, vapid waste, and every year, turning that around becomes less likely. I hate winter. #ceramics #pottery #art

Wolf River. They're very big but not great for much other than cider and pie

Almost done picking the tree, then it's cider time. Pretty good year--the apples are small but they're good and there are a lot of them. #apples #garden #maine #autumn

Spider building its web on a wind chime. Probably wasted effort #ceramics #pottery #art

Big blue ceramic stoneware dragon mug #ceramics #pottery #art

A hand holds an apple with a spider asleep in the divot around the stem

Sleeping spider #garden #maine

For my balloon 🎈 day, may I be so bold to ask for a little share so that my art reaches fellow fantasy and mythology lovers? 🫣✨

Two tables with tablecloths on them covered in blue, green and red pottery. The sihouette of an individual sitting in a stone bench is cut by the sun reflecting off the shimmering blue Atlantic ocean. Scattered trees have the first tingles of fall colors.

Maine is really pretty. #maine #ocean #atlantic #landscape

At Mosman Park in Searsport until 4 today. After spending a huge chunk of my life in a desert wasteland, the sea seems like such a powerful, surreal, impossible phenomenon #pottery #ceramics #art

Tried to draw a skunk from memory at the market today #art #drawing #pen

Last outdoor market day at Waterfall Arts for the year. Summer went so fast. #ceramics #pottery #art

This ceramic stoneware mug with a windblown gnarly old tree on it fits right in with a foggy, rainy gray September day #ceramics #pottery #art

This bug shiny ceramic stoneware bowl has an unglazed exterior and a river of stars flows through the inside #ceramics #pottery #art

Cute little blue ceramic stoneware potion bottle #ceramics #pottery #art

Thanks! They're a couple of John Britt recipes, a blue with a tenmoku bottom layer