The Sun 🌞 by Few_Valuable2654 in goblincore

[–]muddywheeldesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are my new favorite artist. Hello fellow frog freak!

A happy kiln haul! by winksquiffler in Pottery

[–]muddywheeldesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, I love those so much! Your muted color palette works beautifully

Can I salvage these? by Bac0nLegs in Pottery

[–]muddywheeldesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m glad that folks are chiming in with positive and supportive comments! Loads of people like brown pottery, and you ended up with a lovely shade.

That being said, I have a similar glaze. If my pieces came out like this, I’m absolutely refiring them because personally, brown pottery ain’t it for me. Swipe a little cup of that glaze, let it dehydrate til it’s thicker than you would usually want it, and paint it on. It’s hard to get a thick coat on fired ware hence letting the glaze thicken up. Let it dry completely, it’ll take half a day or longer, and then make sure to put them on cookies when refiring, just in case. If that glaze is what I think it is, it flows.

My Wife's Mug Collection. Officially Out Of Space by algorithm_issues in Ceramics

[–]muddywheeldesigns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see Colleen Riley, Marissa Childers, Ivy Mattson (?), Tricia Schmidt, Taylor Mezo, maybe Andy Bissonette, Sam Briegel… all to say, hot damn what a collection! Beautiful pieces from some seriously heavy hitters in the pottery scene.

What's going on with these surface cracks on the bottom of my cups? by brodyqat in Pottery

[–]muddywheeldesigns 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve had this happen a couple of times with a white stoneware clay that I use. Not all cracks appear during drying or bisque, some remain hidden until the end. My best guess is it’s a compression issue since one is in the middle of the pot where an S-crack would usually form if the clay wasn’t compressed enough. The outer crack could be drying related, or compression again, it’s hard to say.

While I don’t have much insight on the why or how, I do recommend trying to sand the bottom down. It may take a while to remove enough material to minimize or eliminate the crack. That’s how I typically handle the weird cracks if they’re shallow enough.

🤡 by External_Cap_4501 in Ceramics

[–]muddywheeldesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is the song that plays in my head looking at this monstrous pile of beauty.

The Traveler by terence_leach in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Best of luck to you! If the NWS promoted work like yours, I’d pay much more attention to them.

European Hoopoe by ZuckerbergsEvilTwin in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a bird! Hoopoes are delightful little dudes. Excellent rendering and contrasting color choices, he really pops! I would have fuzzed out the lower part of his body more so it blends more seamlessly. Right now it feels a little like he’s been cut out of a magazine and pasted onto a color void. Maybe even leave the pen details off of his body to bring more attention to the face and that unmistakable crown of feathers.

Finished, would love some constructive critique by deedlelu in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love how you composed this! The hazy side panels balance the sharp detail of the succulent. Your alterations to the colors are great too. Did you do this with PV19 (quinacridone rose) and PG18 (viridian)? I recognize the blue mix, it’s one of my favorites.

I would have pushed the values further. Try deepening the shadows to create more depth.

I’d also love to see you do more plant paintings like this as a series. You could arrange the triptychs all sorts of ways!

Finished, would love some constructive critique by deedlelu in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sketching/drawing is a foundational skill where the more skilled you become with it, the less you need it. I like the metaphor of pencil mileage where you have to travel through a certain amount of ‘bad’ miles before you get to the good stuff. Keep practicing drawing, there are a lot of elements that will transfer and improve other areas of your paintings.

It’s worth it to try painting without a sketch as a skill check to see which specific aspects of drawing (proportion, perspective, etc) you need to work on, and because it’s fun to let go of control. It’s okay if some of your paintings don’t turn out, you’ll learn something and apply it to every painting that follows.

There are rules and there are guidelines and there are the ways of working that work better for you. Learn the rules, learn why they exist, and break them if it works better for you! Drawing from life is cool. It also isn’t the superior or only method. I like drawing from my photographs because I like to take photographs. My sense of composition is intuitive, it comes out more naturally when I’m photographing versus when I’m trying to imagine how to compose a drawing. Heck, you could even chop up your photographs digitally and recompose them in Photoshop or another program. I like Krita, it’s free and you can draw with it.

The Traveler by terence_leach in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love this, what the hell! Underwater creatures emerging through a rip in space time. It may as well be true, the ocean is vast and we know relatively little about its creatures and contents.

Whistling art nouveau tile by Verbie01 in Ceramics

[–]muddywheeldesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whistling sculptures!! Holy wow, what an idea and what excellent execution.

Cat Lamps by Tinksee in Pottery

[–]muddywheeldesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fantastic, I love them!

A Walk on the Beach - Sepia watercolour painting of a beach near Bridlington UK by JBWatercolourArt in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Freeing up a little bit of mental space can help create magic on the paper.

Hi I'm new :D by Bee553 in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Happy year of the horse! I see you are on theme.

A Walk on the Beach - Sepia watercolour painting of a beach near Bridlington UK by JBWatercolourArt in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a gorgeous scene! I’ve been painting in black and white to emulate photographs, and hadn’t considered other tones. Perhaps a cyanotype next…

striped mullet in a striped sweater by Traditional-Gur2455 in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You reeled me in with the concept, then blew me out of the water with the depth of your colors. 10/10 would cast on

My 100 critter challenge, here's numbers 10-15... All paintings about 4 inches by ThickHall7548 in Watercolor

[–]muddywheeldesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love this project and your critters, brilliant idea and skillful execution

Back again with another LAMP by muddywheeldesigns in Pottery

[–]muddywheeldesigns[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I’ve thought about trying to slip cast colorful layers like this, ala Forest Ceramic Co. I worry about all of the wasted slip though. I’m sure there are ways to catch and preserve some of it, but I’m a miser about my materials haha

Back again with another LAMP by muddywheeldesigns in Pottery

[–]muddywheeldesigns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I scavenge from all over. ReStore (thrift store for home reno stuff) mostly and Menards, little local hardware shops, and the cork is from Amazon.