Lydia Choy

@choy

Exploring sculpture and ceramics. Former director of Substance Modeler, Adobe Medium, games and film vfx.

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Lydia Choy@choy· 21d

This test piece was inspired by a bronze mixed-media sculpture I saw in a museum. Unglazed porcelain + embroidery thread. #pottery

A porcelain, unglazed off-white, caved in torus-like shape with two layers of twisting off-white embroidery threads running through three layers of holes, top view

Lydia Choy@choy· 24d

A roadside antique store $8 find.

Old sign for the Frogger arcade game. Frogger is in large red bubble letters and a cartoon alligator is jumping out of the water trying to grab a startled cartoon frog wearing a red tie and grabbing a briefcase.

Lydia Choy@choy· 25d

Behold the glory of balsalt!

Toketee Falls, a multi tiered waterfall carved out of basalt cliffs, turquoise water, surrounded by moss and forest.

Lydia Choy@choy· Jul 14

This large porcelain tile ended up having a crack on the left side but still turned out pretty neat. #pottery

A large (10x10 inch) porcelain tile of a bunch of stylized seagull heads looking in different directions with different expressions, blue rutile textured glaze background, celadon white glaze heads, seaweed green/yellow beaks and eyes and red accents on the bottom beaks

Lydia Choy@choy· Jun 27

Glazed. Hope it survives firing! #wip #pottery

A bisque fired porcelain tile that has been glazed but not fired yet. There is a stack of various seagull heads facing different directions and making different expressions

Lydia Choy@choy· Jun 18

Well fed kitty vase is done, a gift for a friend. #pottery

Front 3/4 view of a white porcelain stylized round cat vase sitting on its hind legs with a tail wrapped around its right bottom, brown glaze for irises, holding a magenta orchid plant on a white counter

Back view of a white porcelain stylized round cat vase sitting on its hind legs with a tail wrapped around its right bottom, brown glaze for irises, holding a magenta orchid plant on a white counter

Lydia Choy@choy· Jun 1

Working on another porcelain tile. This one is based on an old acrylic painting (Flock of Discontent). #pottery #wip #sculpture

The beginnings of another 10x10 inch porcelain tile of a bunch of seagulls all stacked and crowded together, only heads visible, making various expressions of annoyance, raw clay on an acrylic sheet

An acrylic painting of bunch of seagulls all stacked and crowded together, only heads visible, making various expressions of annoyance, in white, yellow, red on blue background

Lydia Choy@choy· May 27

This tile test came out nice! There was a hairline crack in the middle that I repaired after glaze fire. Will be more careful next time during the drying process since I think it was from drying too fast. #pottery

A large porcelain tile (10x10 inches) of a stylized flying stork, offwhite and celadon white glaze for body, sage green glaze for eyes, legs and beak, and a textured blue rutile glazed background

Lydia Choy@choy· May 19

Also finished this porcelain vase. Decided to keep the exterior unglazed with the interior glazed in celadon white. #pottery

A porcelain vase made of three organic spherical forms (largest on the bottom, smallest on the top) with some irregular horizontal ridges to give a rock-like surface. Front view

Lydia Choy@choy· May 18

Random WIP flower pot. This one started as a different design and i kinda meandered into this well-fed kitty. #pottery

A WIP porcelain flower pot in the shape of a stylized cat with a large head and large belly, small pointy ears and four rounded legs and a tail curling around the side

Lydia Choy@choy· May 8

Detail pass #pottery #wip

A large porcelain tile with a stylized relief of a crane flying with a textured background, ready to dry

Lydia Choy@choy· May 7

Another WIP. I had some old picture frames lying around so gonna try to make a tile or mosaic. #pottery

A sculpted porcelain relief of a stylized crane on a square tile, encased by a wooden picture frame on acrylic board.

Lydia Choy@choy· May 6

Had a few months hiatus from pottery but back at it now. WIP vase

A hand built vase resembling three organic round forms stacked on each other in a staggered arrangement on a small metal turntable. The largest shape is at the bottom and the smallest at the top with vase opening. Porcelain clay.

Lydia Choy@choy· Apr 20

Artists, if you see this, post a dog 🐕

Lydia Choy@choy· Apr 5

Lydia Choy@choy· Apr 4

Won this little buddy from a claw game. Very, very pleased.

Lydia Choy@choy· Apr 1

Even more disgusting:

Japanese soufflé pancakes topped with pistachios, cream, pastry, cherry blossoms and strawberries

Lydia Choy@choy· Apr 1

Just putting this here so I can look at it later.

A plate of 3 Japanese soufflé pancakes with a hearty dab of whipped cream topped with some mint leaves, with fresh strawberries and jam on a white plate .

Lydia Choy@choy· Mar 12

Mileships finally arrived! Worth the wait @ianmcque.bsky.social!

Mileships art book by Ian McQue, sitting on a patterned rug

Lydia Choy@choy· Feb 19

The artist who created the latest @theatlantic.com cover said that they used a VR sculpting tool and Blender. Maybe they used Medium or Modeler? Amazing but also ironic since the AI bubble essentially sucked the oxygen out of the Metaverse bubble by which Medium & Modeler were boosted at the time 😅

Lydia Choy@choy· Jan 22

You win some you lose some. The handle on this piece was definitely cursed (it broke again during glaze fire and fell and got stuck where it is), and I was too heavy handed with glaze. Will try the same concept later! #potteryfail

A vase of a stylized boy’s head holding a teacup with cobalt glaze. The handle is broken and stuck to the side of the boy’s head on the bottom

Lydia Choy@choy· Jan 18

Praying to the kiln gods that this one fires ok. Had to repair the handle two times. #wip #pottery

Lydia Choy@choy· Jan 15

I too have been seduced by columnar basalt in the past, as seen in one of our early demo builds of Medium 😬.

Lydia Choy@choy· Dec 24

Day 24 #ArtAdventCalendar A portrait tiki mug #pottery

A blue rutile glazed stoneware tiki mug of a bearded guy with glasses, open mouth with teeth visible, inner glaze is cobalt blue, front view

A blue rutile glazed stoneware tiki mug of a bearded guy with glasses, ears, hair, a heart and zigzag detail and some stylized arms, back view

Lydia Choy@choy· Dec 23

Day 23 #ArtAdventCalendar A chicken #pottery

A blue and white glazed stoneware sitting hen on a pottery studio glaze shelf. Feet and beak have orange glaze and comb/beak/wattle are red, with white and brown eyes.

Lydia Choy@choy· Dec 22

Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar Pysanky eggs

A pysanky with a staggered ribbon pattern of magenta waves and squares, green squares and white dots

A brown pysanky with white, blue and green birds

An intricate pysanky with radial and floral patterns in pink, white, yellow, black, and green

Lydia Choy@choy· Dec 21

Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar Giant Slayer #sculpture

A bronze sculpture of a man holding a large spear and pointy hair wearing a loin cloth. The spear has impaled the severed head of a giant with a human head and ram horns, one of the broken. The man stands with one foot on the head. Front view

Lydia Choy@choy· Dec 21

A friend made this apron for me, so in honor of the gift I’ll share my guacamole ingredient list again: avocado, red onion, lime juice and zest, cherry tomatoes, chives, salt&pepper, garlic powder, serrano pepper, cilantro, pomegranate seeds. Bonus: serve with cool ranch Doritos.

Lydia Choy@choy· Dec 20

Day 20 #ArtAdventCalendar A Dancer #sculpture. Had to censor this one with a closeup because bsky is being overly puritan about nudes 😒

Closeup of a figure sculpt of a dancing woman with one arm touching her shoulder and one arm outstretched. She has a serene expression and her wavy hair is tied up in a high bun, monster clay

Lydia Choy@choy· Dec 19

Day 19 #ArtAdventCalendar Rooster