Catherine Stasevich

I'm a potter, functional sculptor, vessel illustrator, and amateur scientist. I share my life with animals, and love to cook and eat good food.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

... and won't make me cry so hard if they all fail and crack in half. This is a very real possibility. I already broke one down the weak point lifting it up. I really have no idea if these are going to survive the firing.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

Oh, this is going to be cute. I decided on Chickadees for the bread cutting boards. Something I'll like looking at (because one of these is going to be all for me) and something that I'm very experienced painting so it won't take as long to do...

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

Giving myself permission to be done with this batch of decalware. I have 3 pots left that I couldn't figure out how I wanted them to look at the start, and if I still can't decide they can just go to the 'for later' pile.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

Also FB as Catherine Stasevich Studio and IG as stasevichstudio. I communicate badly on IG, I hate it there.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

Guess I should say, before this implodes entirely, that I'm over on Tumblr as stasevichstudio. I've just used that thing to follow artists and writers so far, thought about using it but didn't know HOW I wanted to use it as an artist. Guess I'll learn.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

@AmandaPaskell I'm stasevichstudio over on the Tumbls. Not much there yet, but it's a place.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

Feedback from woodworkers in my life is that doing wood inlay might be a bad idea. So, adapting. I can purchase a clear resin and cast a hard plastic cutting board surface, which gives me an opportunity to play with glaze and texture in the knife surface.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

My solution is this little ceramic dish, low rim to contain the crumbs, with a slit for the knife to slide through. Where the stick is, imagine a strip of wood inlay to protect the knife edge! Also has lots of room for painting!

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

New form, what dis. I've been wanting a cutting board for homemade bread for a while, and this is hopefully going to be my solution.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

This is all well and good until you have to slice the bread yourself, resulting in crumbs all over the counter. Wooden cutting boards are lovely, but the crumbs go everywhere, plates contain the crumbs but cutting on ceramic is bad for your knives.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

@dannysullivan @MLE_Online I liked the way Google worked, I liked the way it displayed images on a screen. But it's less and less useful to me. I have begun trying duckduckgo out of desperation.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

@dannysullivan @MLE_Online Other times I'm looking for a specific animal, say a Silver Penciled Hamburg chicken. That search used to turn up ONLY those specific chickens, and now that sort of search frequently gives me a mess of random breeds and only a couple bad references of what I was looking for.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

Well that didn't last long. This pot didn't even make it through one show before finding a home. Not gonna lie, I was kinda hoping I'd get to keep touching it for a while longer. It's good when pots find homes, but it's hard to say goodbye, too.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

Last woodpecker for now (I do have 2 more pitchers, but they need a second firing before they're ready. It happens). I love the way this one turned out. The right balance of orange flashing, with just enough ash to get a good gloss and beautiful back.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

I'm getting ready to photograph the fresh pots from fall woodfire, and realized I hadn't even finished sharing from spring woodfire! Listen, there was a lot to do and Instagram is not appealing! But these woodpeckers are, and I would be doing them a disservice NOT to share them.

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Woodpecker 2 I probably could have done more detail shots on... Some of the details on this front got lost to the glare, and it has some sweet moments that the camera has a hard time capturing. It's hard to get the magic of woodfire in an image, many of the subtleties are lost.

[Catherine Stasevich @StasevichStudio]

I still haven't decided if I'm keeping this for myself or not. It was just a quickie (by my usual timescale), made last minute because we were afraid we didn't have the right work to fill the front of the kiln. It turned out really sweet and I told myself I get to make more.