Tag: handmade pottery

• Back To My Roots Of Folk Art Painting – On Pottery This Time

  

  I first picked up a paintbrush in a folk art painting class in 1994. That seems like a lifetime ago. Ten years later, I began my pottery career, and I did very little painting. I spent many years painting glazes on my pottery. Occasionally, I’d make a decorative piece because I had to create. In […]

  Joyce Butler

  February 7, 2023

  Creating Pottery

  decoative pottery, folk art painting, handmade pottery, making pottery

• Add Colour To Your Cooking – With My Garlic Rub Plates

  

  Add colour to your kitchen chores with a decorative garlic rub plate.

  Joyce Butler

  February 2, 2023

  Creating Pottery

  being creative, ceramic garlic rub plates, colour in the kitchen, decoative pottery, for sale on Etsy, garlic rub plates, handmade plates, handmade pottery

• Getting Sidetracked – It Happens To The Best Of Us

  I planned on making ornaments but got sidetracked and painted flowers on a mug.

  Joyce Butler

  January 30, 2023

  Creating Pottery

  decoative pottery, decorating a mug, go with the flow, handmade pottery, painting flowers, painting on pottery, sidetracked to good, the butler's pottery

• How To Create Designs On Clay – Carve It Out

  How to carve on clay.

  Joyce Butler

  January 21, 2023

  Creating Pottery

  being creative, carve negative space carving, carve out clay, carve reifes patterns, cattail on a mug, decoative pottery, decorating pottery by carving, handmade pottery, making pottery, simple carving, the butler's pottery, tools to carve with

• Tis The Seasons To Create Christmas Ornaments – During Christmas

  

  Christmas is when I want to make Christmas ornaments. I need to make them in time for September sales

  Joyce Butler

  January 15, 2023

  Creating Pottery

  buy in the season, Christmas ornaments, create seaonal items, decoative pottery, decorating and colour, DYI clay ornaments, handmade pottery, old fashion holiday bulbs, reigndeer, reindeer ornaments, the seasons

• My College Education

  

  I started in construction estimating the cost of buildings, then migrated to making pottery.

  Joyce Butler

  January 5, 2023

  Living Life

  college education, construction work, dailyprompt, decoative pottery, handmade pottery, making pottery

• Holiday Break Time

  

  I wish a happy and safe holiday of 2022 for everyone.

  Joyce Butler

  December 21, 2022

  Living Life

  being creative, decoative pottery, handmade pottery, Holiday break, making pottery, merry Christmas, new pottery in 2023, Time with family

• More Experimenting With Mocha Diffusion – This Time On Pottery

  

  My first cup with the teal green mason stains worked the best. Tobacco tea is the acid base.

  Joyce Butler

  December 11, 2022

  Creating Pottery

  abstract on clay, acid on alkaline, bare trees, being creative, black trees, bushy trees, chemical reaction, experimenting with clay, green trees, growing trees on pottery, handmade pottery, handmade tumblers, haunted forest, mocha diffusion, watch it grow

• Adding Glass To Pottery – A Crackling Glass Effect

  

  How I used glass to give my Christmas ornaments a crackle glass look.

  Joyce Butler

  December 5, 2022

  Creating Pottery

  angel ornaments, candlstick Christmas tree ornaments, ceramic ornamnets, decoative pottery, fired in kiln, glass on pottery, handmade ornaments, handmade pottery, making pottery

• Keep Calm & Create – Sculpting Animals Calms Me

  

  I like to sculpt animals but haven’t made very many of them. I plan to make more of them starting with this bear getting honey.

  Joyce Butler

  November 28, 2022

  Creating Pottery

  animal, bear statue, bear steeling honey, handmade pottery, keep calm, making pottery, sculpty a bear, still to be glaed, sulpted bear, the butler's pottery, whymsical bear, wild animals