A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird

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Ugly bird girl. Angry. Parent. Artist. Nonbinary, She/Her. Not anyone of note. Basically a chubby trash panda with anxiety. https://ko-fi.com/shinybluething23640 if you want to help with the cats.

Black and white cat asleep on a person's arm
Greenware porcelain mug with carvings of the moon (or sun) and Asian influenced clouds.
Video of a porcelain greenware mug with a carved decoration of clouds and the moon, or possibly the sun, because I haven't decided yet how it will be glazed
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 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 small teapot painted with naturalistic botanical designs
A globe shaped mug decorated with hand painted botanical designs.
The bottom of the lily pad plate, showing the design of plants and flowers around the rim
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 small ceramic jar decorated with a full moon night scene showing mountains, a stream in a valley, and a hill
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
A 12 second clip taken next to my window screen in the dark, listening to singing frogs and the wind gently rattling the screen. The only visual is the window screen itself.
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 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.
Three cups, a pitcher, a teapot and two plates waiting on the drying rack
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.
Painting with collaged textile panel and hand before applying pva and acrylic medium
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.
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
The unfinished face of one of the Fates in my sculpture
A sculpture of the fates, looking at Lachesis, with Clotho in profile, made in cardboard, plaster bandage, salvaged thread, tiny metal scissors, sticks, foliage, paper towels, tape, glue, chenille wire and floral wire
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.
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
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.
Atropos, mostly done, plaster bandage, wreath of wilted mulberry leaves that should dry out in time for the due date, pipe cleaner hands
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 roughed in acrylic painting of a right hand on a canvas board, from which it will be cut out when complete.
Four glazed ceramic pots, 2 with lids, awaiting the next firing
Photo of several dishes of food, fruit, a pitcher of water with fruit, a candelabra and vase of dried roses, processed to appear vintage
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 pen and colored pencil drawing of a girl in glasses with her hair pulled back, holding a lit cigarette in her right hand that's resting on her left knee and wearing a tank top and plaid pajama pants. Her left knee is drawn up and her right leg is in half cross legged position.
Vector drawing of a ferret in calligraphic style surrounded by sparkly red x shapes
A pencil drawing of a sleeping infant
A small round greenware teapot, smoothed and burnished and drying out while it waits for bisque firing
A full moon silhouettes a roof and TV antenna, lighting clouds below it
A scene of trees and fallen leaves in afternoon sun
A greenware (unfired clay) teapot
An unfired sgraffito vessel with a black slip outer layer carved with a nighttime scene of a mountain valley under the full moon
Pencil sketch of an old dog, asleep in an easy chair
An unfired round sgraffito vessel decorated with mountains, a full moon, and clouds carved into a black slip layer on top of gray stoneware
Small oil painting on canvas board of an anvil cloud at sunset
A small unfinished oil painting of an anvil cloud at sunset propped up next to a tablet computer displaying a reference photo of the same thing, with a small razor knife between them
two kittens lying next to each other on a light red cushion. One is spotted black on white, the other is a brown tabby with a swirl on the side
The small bowls with koi and water lilies painted on the insides, with blue and brown glazing on the outside
A round glazed ceramic jar with a lid is spinning on a turntable to display the sgraffito botanical decoration. The knob on the lid is shaped like a tree frog.
A round glazed ceramic vessel decorated with hand painted botanical motifs is spinning on a turntable to display the decoration then the camera angle changes to look inside, displaying the frog, lily pads, and fish painted on the bottom
An engraving of three women, one spins, one measures, one cuts the thread.
A round vessel with plants painted on the outside and lily pads, frogs, fish and water lilies on the bottom of the inside next to a coffee mug with plants painted on it
Street scene at night, Japan. Acrylic on canvas, from a reference photograph taken by Marek Piwniki and downloaded from unsplash
Mars Curiosity Rover aka Murderbot aka Scooter doing her very best baby alligator in the sun pose
A small round lidded pot with a frog shaped knob on top, decorated with incised botanical motifs
Photo of a lawn at night with a few leafless trees, brightly lit with lights, shrouded by heavy fog
A glazed ceramic sculpture of a blue whale next to several mugs and a dish
A person's hand slowly rotating a cylindrical glazed ceramic cup that is decorated with hand painted colorful plants and flowers, then turning the cup to show the inside, which has a lily pad painted in the bottom and a tiny green frog painted on the inner wall of the cup.
Painting of an icy lake, with open water near the shore, fallen leaves in the foreground, a crane near a bare tree in the middle ground at the water's edge, geese resting in the ice in the distance, and the far shore shrouded in mist, through which trees are just barely visible.
A cat curled up on the shoulder of a person
black and white cat asleep in a sink
A small pig with anxiety in a striped sweater and scarf and a chubby bear in an ill-fitting shirt are walking bipedally down a forest path. The dialoge is as follows: "is he dead yet?" asked Piglet. "No," said Poo. "Fuck," said Piglet.
Reference photo I took a year or so ago, of an icy lake with mist shrouded trees on the opposite shore, a flock of geese resting on the ice, and a crane in silhouette on the near shore, which is covered in a thick carpet of red brown leaves and dormant plants. There's a slender tree trunk to the right, some bare winter branches above, and the water at the edge of the shoreline is not iced over
A pot of peppers and 2 pots of tomatoes of varying ages against a sunny window with blue sky and snow visible though it