Eva Funderburgh

22 Jan 2025

Hello Bluesky! Let’s give this a go. I make sculptures. Mostly ceramic monsters with worrying teeth.

I’m still waking up. I definitely just spent trying to figure out what this painting had to do with deep fried eggs.

Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social

In the wake of the far-reaching loss of WW1, pictures which had an emphasis on continuity and nostalgia had enormous appeal in Britain during the inter-war years. The clarity of definition in James Walker Tucker's 'An Idle Chat,' (1936) is down to his use of egg tempera.

Unloading day for the wood kiln!

Not everything made it through. We had clay defects cause several beautiful pieces tear themselves apart. Other pots were broken or tipped by sticks. I lost a beast because another vase tipped into it, fusing the two together. When they cracked apart, it lost a chunk.

In the end, most of my beasts survived. There were some beautiful pots. And we’re so excited to come back and do it again!

Unloading day for the wood kiln!

The very back floor of the kiln was wild. This was the spot that got way too hot way too soon. Turns out the side effect of that was more ash on the work. The ash isn’t gonna stay on a pot until the glaze is melted - and sticky. More time hot? More time sticky. Way more melted ash!

The front was really sold. Couple of dry areas. The crab bowl looks wild! Mostly of that shell will dissolve into dust, but we were amazing that the barnacles stayed.

Unloading day for the wood kiln!

Here we go! I was running around too fast to do live updates. But most everything came out great?

I read this on Thursday, and found myself crying over my lunch. I’ve been in the world of craft just long enough that the generation that taught me wood firing is starting to disappear. This beautiful comic of handycraft and loss is perfection.

Lucy Bellwood@lubellwoo.bsky.social

This week you can find The Scale of a Man, my illustrated reflection on craft, grief, and inheritance, on @therumpus.net. Thank you @marinaomi.bsky.social for believing in this piece and getting it further into the world. Read the whole thing here: therumpus.net/2026/10/13/t...

Woodfiring going well so far! yesterday was loading. Everything went into the kiln nice and smoothly. This will be the 10th firing of the cloud kiln.

Front stoke of the kiln happen less frequently. Here I am filling the whole thing up at 2300f. It gets a bit toasty. We’ll be shutting the kiln down first thing in the morning, after 48 hours.

We wrapped up the firing this morning at 7am, after 48 hours. We did one final flamey stoke, then bricked in the door and closed the damper. Flames and smoke started escaping from anywhere it could, and we ran around sealing it up. Forgot to take photos of that part. Now we wait while it cools!

Woodfiring going well so far! yesterday was loading. Everything went into the kiln nice and smoothly. This will be the 10th firing of the cloud kiln.

Today’s shift was a wild ride. We were suppose to hold at 2175/ 2175. Soaking the heat into the bricks and pots. But our scavenged eucalyptus had other ideas. It burned hot and left a giant coal bed. Most of the shift was franticly trying to control the temp.

We’ve since found equilibrium. We’re approaching hour 38, with 2240f in both the back and the front. It’s a waiting game. We want to let more ash accumulate on the pots, but don’t want things to get too hot. We’re doing a lot of side stoking, as demonstrated by Ian.

Woodfiring going well so far! yesterday was loading. Everything went into the kiln nice and smoothly. This will be the 10th firing of the cloud kiln.

Hour 23, now at 2000f back and front. Night shift has been working hard Here’s the view from the kiln house before I head on up for my shift.

Soundtrack of morning at the kiln. The fancy pyrometer is courtesy of @benhollis.net

Woodfiring going well so far! yesterday was loading. Everything went into the kiln nice and smoothly. This will be the 10th firing of the cloud kiln.

At this point, it’s still cool enough to open a port and just watch the flames and the pots. Only 800f or so.

Hour 16. 1500f in front, 946 in back. Swing shift is going well, with @dunting.bsky.social and Lilith Rocket running the kiln. They’ll do body reduction overnight, starving the kiln of O2 at various points. I’m back on shift in the morning.

Woodfiring going well so far! yesterday was loading. Everything went into the kiln nice and smoothly. This will be the 10th firing of the cloud kiln.

I never get tired of the view of the kiln from the kitchen door.

We candled the kiln with propane for a few hours, then switched to a campfire in the lower door. The goal is raising the temp 75 - 100f/ hour until about 1000.

Firing up the bisque kiln with eight weeks worth of work in it. I’ll be nervous until things make it through. Heck, I’ll be nervous until the electric kiln is fired, cooled, and I’ve loaded the work up for the journey to the wood kiln.

Everything made it through the bisque firing! It’s now chilling up at the wood kiln, waiting for tomorrow’s loading. (The pots and the long legged bud on are on other table)

Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD

QRP with your moon art! It was so hard to choose just one - turns out it’s a reoccurring theme. I went with “Three Beasts and the Moon” from 2019.

Amy Rae Hill@amyraehill.bsky.social

QRP with your moon art 🌕 (This is currently for sale at Olympic Art Framing in Issaquah, WA!)

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J. B. Bartram

@jbbartram.bsky.social

I’ve been mulling over flatfish plates for a while & they finally made it to my pottery desk today! I’m so excited to see how these turn out (I have some fun ideas for the glazing 👀).

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@derekmballard.bsky.social

when I went to The Hague I learned this is actually literally how the International Criminal Court works.

zach@extrafabulous.bsky.social

Spent the weekend at the NW Rallycross association season final in rural eastern Washington. It’s wild how fun this sport is. We’re learning so much about braking and momentum, and how to slide the fiesta through the muck and dust. We’ve improved so much over the course of half a year.

We’re also learning about what happens if you pack 5 gallons of fine dust directly against the radiator. And what happens if you boil coolant. The Fiesta is fine! Well, other than the radiator fan, but we still finished our Sunday races, and ended on an amazing high note.

Decided to do a shake out scuba dive last night to try out a bit of new gear. I brought my camera, and grabbed some of my favorite nudibranch photos ever! (Also shrimp and fish are good)

Also, the site is just so darn gorgeous, at least above the water. This was the view going in, with apparently every diver in Seattle having the same idea, followed by the view as we got out.

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Lucy Bellwood

@lubellwoo.bsky.social

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What’s a poster you had in your room growing up? I had “Snakes of North America” over my bed, and a particular large Han Solo poster as well.

Lucy Bellwood@lubellwoo.bsky.social

What's a poster you had in your room growing up? Surprising nobody: HMS Rose looking absolutely beat to shit. Part of a double-sided promo poster for Master and Commander that arrived tucked into the LA Times circa 2003. (Stayed a part of my room decor through two decades and multiple houses.)

I finished up the forest beast last night. Took a lot of revisions, but I’m really happy with it! Please, please make it through the bisque firing, my friend.

Had a discussion with my spouse and some friends industry specific phrases. In it, I learned about an excellent new noun: Footgun. Footgun: a device with a strong potential to shoot yourself in your own foot.

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@wolfsteax.bsky.social

15 June

A painting of a nightmare I had recently.

12 Sept

Tree progress. I’ll have to worry less about them being mistaken for broccoli, more about being mistaken for morels. It might improve once the trunks are drier and I can add detail and more branches.

12 Sept

I am six trees into this tree making marathon, and have spent the last 20 min trying to figure if I could rallycross a kei car.

Making good progress with test trees. The next step is to take them all off again and make the final ones. And cut the mouth and attach the tail

I definitely started this big, tree-covered beast before figuring out how on earth I can sculpt trees.

I did a tree covered beast in the past, and someone asked if it was broccoli. I’m still traumatized.

It doesn’t help that I’m working exclusively with shades of brown. There’s a few stained clays that I’ve played with in the wood kiln, but the greens have never succeeded.

6 Sept

This weekend was the second to last rallycross event of the season, and the only night races too. It’s hard to describe how incredible fun it is. Fell asleep think about how we drove, and how I can drive better today. I have a solid chance at the podium - assuming I keep pushing + don’t screw up

6 Sept

Blue Bean, Blue Bean! It’s our underpowered race machine! 108 HP and not much traction, but it sure as heck brings the action!

7 Sept

I had a tire debead (an exciting flat) in the middle of a run. Got off course, we swapped the wheel out in under 3 minutes, then went back to the start. Reran the run for my best time of the morning!

We podiumed! @benhollis.net in second and myself in third. Such a solid weekend!

1 Sept

I’m making good progress on this dude. I’ll have to sculpt the little friend next.

2 Sept

Little dude is done!!

28 Aug

Cool, cool. Nothing like going to do some laundry and discovering I forgot to switch the towels to the dryer. A week ago.