Plump and Ripe
A nice juicy tomato to start off this month’s blog post. This tomato is one of my digital drawings for the backgrounds I create and share each week on social media. I call it Screenshot Saturday. Each Saturday I share 4-10 digital drawings on social media that people can screenshot and use as their background on their personal devices.
My monthly painted calendar with gouache.
So my biggest news from this month is that I loaded up lots of my tiny vases to open my own Etsy shop and I love it! I love how the pictures came out and the videos for the tiny vases. Though each listing takes a fair amount of time, it was awesome to choose the sets together and play around with various themes. I did not think I could get my Etsy shop open that quickly, but it all came together. More listed weekly!
I am so excited about this mug! Before I got really obsessed with the vases, I decided I would try to hand built (not wheel thrown) a mug and this was the result. I just wanted to be random with the drawings, paint splatters and smears. No side is like the other! I hope to use it soon for coffee, but for now I just can’t stop staring at it.
Glazing pottery is a versatile way to embellish the form you created. Here is a hand built tiny vase I made. The left side photo is when it was bisque fired as I was applying the ceramic decal butterfly and watercolor underglazes to it. And the right side photo is the vase after it has been glaze fired and all finished. You can see most of the rose color did not come through the final firing. This is what it is like for ceramic artists and potters. We do not always know what will happen in the kiln! Sometimes, things work out great and then there are other times where it all feels experimental and nothing works! Either way, there is an element of surprise and it keeps me coming back.
Each month I send off cards to friends and family. Some handmade, some drawn digitally and printed. Either way they are Hannah O. Koch originals.
I could go on and on sharing all the tiny little vases and how I glazed each one. But I will stop here for now. Just a few more days before heading back to school. August has finally arrived! I am not sure what summer of the vase will turn into…but I can’t wait to find out.
Stay creative out there,
Hannah