Sarah Dungan

Some puns demand visuals.

Back to making birds. I love how the glaze makes them look a bit like watercolor paintings.

Some birds for the season. Happy Holidays!

I do have a shop: sarahwithtea.com/shop Alas there's no pottery right now. Pottery generally goes up in little batches as I finish a group of things. I'll announce sales here, on instagram, and on my Patreon a few days before, and I usually get Patrons first refusal. The first set of 2024 will likely be frog mugs because I've been planning them for about a month already!

Enjoying an oxide and white glaze series with these. Clearly I'll have to do more snakes.

I seem to be through something of a reptile and amphibian phase. Some of these are going to be hard to part with. Especially the frog jars and the gecko!

Or you could become a patron, that would be really neat! patreon.com/sarahwithtea

My stream chat has a recurring character known as 'Self Care Dragon'. Self Care Dragon is generally reading or in possession of a series of romance novels the pin titles of which I'm inordinately proud of. Yes, it's a dragon/knight romance series. The Knight's pronouns are They/Them, no official word on the dragon's pronouns.

Little rabbit is the first test of a glaze-oxide combination for larger sculptures. I might tweak how I wipe away glaze or thin it some before I dip the sculpture, but I like the effect overall.

And sometimes, glaze does NOT come out looking like you expected. I’m honestly a bit of an over planner when it comes to glaze. In this case I even made tests with the same clay before hand. But on the larger pieces, for some reason, the glaze bubbled quit a lot.  My theory is that it’s the granular manganese in the clay body burning through the glaze. This is recycled clay from a group studio, and anything that isn’t white just goes into a ‘red’ bucket, which includes a speckled buff clay that has granular manganese in it. You can see some speckles that are behaving in the lid, as well as a cross section of bits of various clay bodies that weren’t totally blended together in wedging. Why it didn’t do the same in the smaller test...is a mystery. On the bright side, the whole point was for them to look like weathered, mossy wood, and as they aren’t meant for tableware where washing the surface would be an issue, the bubbling don’t make them unusable. But that won’t keep me from complaining about it on the internet!