A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird

@shinybluething

Ugly bird girl. Angry. Parent. Artist. Nonbinary, She/Her. Not anyone of note. Basically a chubby trash panda with anxiety. if you want to help with the cats.

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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· 29d

Still photos of the same piece, if you don't like squinting at the spinny version.

Greenware porcelain mug with carvings of the moon (or sun) and Asian influenced clouds.

Another view of the same greenware porcelain mug with carvings of the moon (or sun) and Asian influenced clouds.

Another view of the same greenware porcelain mug with carvings of the moon (or sun) and Asian influenced clouds, showing how the clouds wrap around under the handle.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· 29d

One of today's efforts towards work to be sold at the college art club benefit sale this fall. I don't know yet if that's a moon or a sun. Depends on how I want to glaze it.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 14

Final dispatch from ceramics class. I survived both critique and packing all of my work out to my car.

A table full of ceramic pieces: eleven vessels, eleven bowls, four boxes, one lidded jar, one cutout design candle lantern, fourteen mugs, three beakers, two plates, a pitcher and a teapot.

A close up view of the cutout work candle lantern, showing the organic branch design

A view from the other side, showing about half of the table: five vessels, the candle lantern, the lidded jar, the four boxes, nine of the cups, the pitcher, the plates and the teapot

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 11

Penultimate dispatch from the ceramics studio: setting out everything that's not in the last glaze firing for critique. I think I have more than a dozen additional pieces to add to this.

A table in a ceramics studio, partially set up for final critique. In front, ten multicolored test tiles, and behind that, eight coffee mugs, four jars, four pots, a lidded jar and the bottom of a lidded box, two bowls from the place setting assignment "dialogue with a past artist" waiting for the other pieces atop the sketched out design pages for each, seven more bowls in two stacks, two small beakers and five more cups. There is also a messy work tool bucket in the middle of the back row, covered with dried clay smears and with an apron tie hanging out of it.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 6

And the teapot

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 6

The mug in spinny vision.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 6

More pics of my bisque pieces

The bottom of the lily pad plate, showing the design of plants and flowers around the rim

Both plates, with their cups, the teapot, the moon mug, some previously finished pieces, my glaze tiles, and the rest of my bisque pieces behind them

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 6

Bisque kiln unloaded today

Several bisque pieces, the with slip decoration and one with a snugged on underglaze. There are two lidded boxes, two jars, a beaker, a bowl and a candle holder carved to resemble a thicket

A teapot decorated with hand painted underglaze. The outside has plants and the inside has a single large water lily leaf. On the lid is painted a small green frog

Two mugs and a plate. One mug is painted with a full moon design in black and white, the other has a green line and small pink square design, while the plate has a variation on a rose tile design by Chris Rennie Mackintosh.

A plate painted with lily pads and a single green frog.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 5

And a video, so you can see all the design. This is one of my favorite pieces.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 5

Photos of the Full Moon Mountain jar

View from the top of the jar showing the interior and lip, glazed in blue rutile, with the moon at the front and stylized clouds

Photo from the front of the jar showing the carved moon and clouds above mountains and a stream, carved into the black slip layer, then highlighted with white opaque underglaze before it was covered with clear glaze.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 5

Frogsong with bonus wind gently rattling my old window screen. 12 second loop.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· May 4

May the 4th be with you, have some super nerdy fan art.

A black and white, pen and ink, design for an arts and crafts style wallpaper border or stencil border depicting a stylized Mandalorian helmet and Boba Fett's spaceship as the repeating elements. The ship is the large pendant motif, while the helmet is the smaller alternating motif. The band has small squares running horizontally in the center, and varying sizes of squares are used as repeating ornaments.

A stuffed animal made to reproduce the homemade comfort toy named Lula that is a story element in the Bad Batch series, sitting next to a purchased replica of Boba Fett's helmet

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 30

Done now. There's so much text in this it is twice as long as the character limit for alt text. See detail shots of each side for full alt text, including some that's not visible in the flat photograph.

A painting made of a painted and collaged canvas with a partial frame on the bottom edge composed of collaged textiles, cardboard, a cutout canvas board painting of a hand, and strips of text. The main canvas has seven triangular sections radiating from the center bottom: kittens on a blanket, a yellow swallowtail butterfly resting on a blooming dianthus, a loaf of bread painted onto a collaged cook book page, a sun dappled forest path, a house refelcting a sunset in its windows, a collaged knitting pattern and a painted measuring tape with yarn applied to simulate a ball that then leads to a few rows of knitting on a pair of bamboo needles; an exterior night scene of shadowed trees lit by moonlight. Due to character limit on alt text, I'll be posting it in sections with details of each side, because there is so much.

Text strips on the left side from center top counterclockwise:
I'm actually looking forward to this week's dose of engineered poison.
Time is a hell of a ride. I don't like the parts where there's crying or screaming, but I love the parts where there's joy.
On the other hand, I'm still here, I've weathered it all. Sometimes good luck is surviving the disaster, or fixing what's broken
if you used to be a manic pixie dream girl but now you're aging, what do you turn into?
Terrible shit is going down in my extended family and I can't stop it. I can't fix anything.
This is going to be the most disappointing, low rent, apocalypse yet.
i'm so angry right now. We should all be angry. I've been angry, but this is another spike of anger.
If a year ever needed burning to end it, it's this one.
(on frame)
worse than all the discomfort, this sense of how not only I have lost my former self, but how my family has lost.
I wait, it won't be possible.
It's been more than a month since I could use my hands fully.
One of the cats has distributed exciting janitorial opportunities throughout the house.
I have one working hand and one half working hand
I don't like this fairytale.
I needed my cane today
people in pain have less usable time than everyone else.
while I can finally sort of stand again, I still need a cane
Extra not enjoying McCarthyism 2.0
Apparently I've complained enough about my symptoms that facebook is now advertising mobility aids to me.

Right side of painting from center top clockwise
I'm actually looking forward to this week's dose of engineered poison.
Right now I'm trying for hope, which at this moment seems to be conscious denial in a nice dress so you can take it out in public.
Snatching joy back from the hands of despair is an act of rebellion and resistance.
last night I dreamed I was ok again. I worked on my house and I wasn't tired and my hands worked And then I woke up.
I hate when I have to be Evil Mom in order to not be a shitty parent. Everyone loses.
"every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow."
another empty space where a person used to be in my larger social circle.

(on frame)
like I have lost part of my soul.
This is a place where everyone is having a terrible day. My adrenaline has worn off and I'm suddenly really tired.
Good news is that we caught it early before permanent damage.
If I could have one thing get better it would be my hands. I can't make things and it's making me feel
"No." is a complete sentence,

(on bottom of frame, not visible)
Last night I was crying from pain.
It's really hard not to cry.
My adrenaline has run out and I'm going to nap in this semi comfortable chair to the sound of the ventilator.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 30

Today's dispatch from ceramics class, underglaze work on greenware because we are too close to semester's end to bisque first. That meant I could do incised designs, though, because you can do that on greenware.

Three cups, a pitcher, a teapot and two plates waiting on the drying rack

Side view of the meadow/pond plate from my final project, showing the plants drawn under the rim of the plate

Top view of the plate from the Charles Rennie Mackintosh portion of my final project, a riff on one of his rose tile designs, in wax resist over incised lines, with pink underglaze on the roses under the resist and a final coat of diluted leaf green underglaze

A snapshot of the incised line work before the underglaze and resist was applied. Greenware is necessary for this step whether you are applying underglaze before bisque firing or not.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 27

It. Is. Done. I think. Maybe.

A mixed media painting incorporating collaged text, printed pages and textile elements, with a painted hand emerging from collaged textile waves in front of a canvas divided into seven pie slice segments radiating from the center bottom. Left to right, they are kittens asleep on a blanket, a butterfly resting on a dianthus in bloom, a loaf of bread in front of a cookbook page, a sun dappled forest path, a house at sunset reflecting clouds in the windows, a collaged yarn ball atop a collaged knitting pattern that is connected to some knitting on a pair of wood needles, and a night forest scene. Over all of this are strips of paper with text on them.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 24

Assembled the collaged textile elements, glazed them with acrylic medium and pva, pinned some folds and put it aside to dry. Next I'm finishing the remaining sections

Painting with collaged textile panel and hand before applying pva and acrylic medium

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 24

Here's what I mean when I say acrylics change as they dry. Lighter colors become darker, medium darker shades can lighten. Everything can become more muted. Tuesday to today.

A painting with seven pie slice sections all pointing to center bottom: unfinished kittens on a blanket, a butterfly on a dianthus, a loaf of bread on a collaged cookbook page, a sun dappled forest path, a house reflecting a sunset in its windows, a collaged yarn ball and knitting pattern, and an unfinished night scene. Paint just dry but not fully dry, the highlights are still a little too sharp, the shadows are a bit too deep on everything worked on Tuesday evening.

The same painting a few days later after the paint has had time to cure. Today, the colors are less sharply in contrast.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 22

Stayed up late working on the parts for my mixed media painting and this is where I am. Lots more to do.

Cutout painted hand, sitting on top of the main canvas, which has seven pie slice sections marked out, radiating from the center bottom. Clockwise from bottom left they are barely roughed in kittens on a fuzzy blanket, finished yellow swallowtail on a dianthus, finished bread loaf painted on a collaged cookbook page, finished view down a sun dappled forest path, finished house at sunset reflecting the sky in its windows, mostly done collaged knitting pattern with applied yarn, background layer of an unfinished exterior night scene

Cutout painted hand, holding a set of wood knitting needles with several rows of knitting, sitting on top of the main canvas, which has seven pie slice sections marked out, radiating from the center bottom. Clockwise from bottom left they are barely roughed in kittens on a fuzzy blanket, finished yellow swallowtail on a dianthus, finished bread loaf painted on a collaged cookbook page, finished view down a sun dappled forest path, finished house at sunset reflecting the sky in its windows, mostly done collaged knitting pattern with applied yarn that connects to the knitting needles, background layer of an unfinished exterior night scene

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 20

The camera app really sees these as faces

The unfinished face of one of the Fates in my sculpture

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 20

Today's dispatch from 3d design and painting class. The Fates in mixed media and found objects and an unfinished mixed media painting with collage and 3d elements.

Another angle, showing Atropos with her scissors and a lap full of cut threads. A sculpture of the fates, made in cardboard, plaster bandage, salvaged thread, tiny metal scissors, sticks, foliage, paper towels, tape, glue, chenille wire and floral wire

An unfinished mixed media painting with a cut out realistic hand painting on top

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 18

April 18: Everyday life Renovations, 2007, black and white digital camera, self portrait #RepostYourArt

A person taking a photo against a patched plaster wall, reflected in a mirror mounted horizontally at eye level in a paneled wall where a built in cabinet used to be, framed by partially repaired plaster. There is a shelf above the mirror with tools and a spray bottle on it, and some debris is on the floor.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 17

April 16: Colorful This one kind of goes with the unfinished octopus mermaid doll, some of the concept art for her. Pencils, scanned and colored using a paint program (not sure which, I have about six). Eventually, she will look like this. I got sidelined by making her eyes. #RepostYourArt

Octopus mermaid head study. She is blue and purple, has large red eyes with u-shaped pupils and a smiling light blue false mouth centered below them and dual siphons on either side of her "face" as part of her mimicry

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 17

Had a super busy long day at school on Wednesday and didn't post, then I got sick on Thursday :( So, today, I'm doing April 15, 16 and 17th, starting with this one: Soft for the 15th. I still need to finish that octopus girl. #RepostYourArt

An articulated, unclothed skeleton girl doll wearing lipstick, with blue bobbed hair ornamented with red flowers and leaves, entirely made of chenille craft wire, snuggling with an unfinished octopus mermaid doll made of felted wool. He head is unfinished, so she has no face yet on her simple rounded head, and only half her markings and details have been applied, her mantle and markings are purplish and the rest of her is plain undyed wool. They are photographed against a sheet printed with a galaxy and stars pattern.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 15

Update on the sculpture: Partway done on figural sculpture is always very creepy. Strong weeping angel vibes.

Atropos, mostly done, plaster bandage, wreath of wilted mulberry leaves that should dry out in time for the due date, pipe cleaner hands

Clotho and Lachesis heads assembled and set in place stop the cardboard base structure, looking very creepy

The sculpture as I left it, mostly covered and with base layers of plaster with crumpled paper supports assembled, bare pipe cleaner armatures for the arms secured with plaster bandage, and bare branches stuck in temporarily

Another view of the partially completed sculpture

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 15

Other final, for 3d design, Thread of Fate, so far:

One face of a multimedia sculpture made with primarily found materials, which is going to depict the spinner, the measurer, and the cutter of the thread of life. So far, cardboard, plaster bandage, wadded up paper toweling, gummed paper tape. Soon to include foraged plant material, pipe cleaners, wire, small scissors, wool, and other things.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 15

I wish I had time to do my final painting project (mixed media, about me, but not a portrait) in oils. Oils are What You See Is What You Get, while acrylics ... change over time as they dry. It would be so much easier to paint my hand study, the focus of the project, in oils. Behold my zombie hand.

A roughed in acrylic painting of a right hand on a canvas board, from which it will be cut out when complete.

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 14

Violent slam wedging of reclaim? Check. No time on the wheel for me, glazing instead, and doing an actual assignment. That was making 10 glaze tiles. So I did that, with 25 of the underglazes.

Four glazed ceramic pots, 2 with lids, awaiting the next firing

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 14

April 14: Yummy Vintage style cookbook photos for a net.goth cooking zine I worked on in the late 90's. #RepostYourArt

Photo of several dishes of food, fruit, a pitcher of water with fruit, a candelabra and vase of dried roses, processed to appear vintage

Photo of several dishes of food, fruit, a candelabra and and candle snuffer, processed to appear vintage

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 13

April 13: Artist Here's someone from an old personal web site design. Adobe Illustrator, close to 20 years ago. #RepostYourArt

A vector drawing of an abstract hand painting a black and white textured line with a brush with a gradient from white in the foreground to dark purple at the upper background

A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird@shinybluething· Apr 13

April 12: Cosy *rummaging noises* Have 3 quick gesture portraits of some friends hanging out and smoking in the late aughts. #RepostYourArt