Author Archives: Calan
now where did i put that bird?
Here’s a piece I did just before I left for West Palm Beach. He’s a small ceramic figure – almost a sketch for a larger piece or series I’m contemplating. I really fell for this little guy. I’d be sad to say he sold if he didn’t go to such a cool lady. He is [...]
under the sea
As if I weren’t busy enough getting ready for Art Rock this weekend, I decided to try the 2 part self hardening clay I recently bought. It is like an epoxy but with more clay like sculpting properties. Basically you mix small amounts up at a time…like really small…and then work with it during the [...]
Scratch the Surface
I want toshare with you the piece I did for Blue Lucy Gallery’s ‘Scratch the Surface’ exhibition. The rules were simple: each artist purchased a 15 inch square birch board from the Gallery. There was no theme, you can do anything you like so long as the art stays within the 15 inch square. Just [...]
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Tagged acrylic painting, art, blue lucy gallery, burtonesque art, Calan Ree, conjoined skeletons, conjoined twins, dark and sweet, dark art, goth art, group exhibition, painting, painting on wood, scratch the surface, skeleton art, spooky cute, st petersburg artist, tampa bay artists
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Torro – bull-boy ceramic sculpture
Inspired by a combination of the astrological sign of Taurus as well as the comic character Hellboy and a bit Dia do Los Muertos, I call this sculpture Torro. He is hand built using earthenware clay and finished in underglaze, glaze and iron oxide. Some of the cylindrical shapes used to create this piece were [...]
Tweedle Bear and Tweedle Bun
This conjoined bear and bunny sculpture is one of my favorite ceramic pieces so far. I think it’s those chubby cheeks. Inspired by a visit to the circus poster art and circus memorabilia exhibition at Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, this figurative animal sculpture features conjoined bunny and bear twins that share a single [...]
ceramic art for your walls
Recently there was a Call to Artists in Sarasota that several of my friends answered. The call, like many others, was limited to art that can hang on a wall, meaning no 3 dimensional art. As someone whose pretty dedicated to clay, I didn’t want to create new work on paper or canvas. It got [...]
play with my art
These new ceramic art dolls are inspired by the idea that you find in Native American culture of spirits that protect things and places. I think of these figures as forest spirits and gave each one a set of trees to accompany them. In keeping each component separate, you get to interact with the art [...]
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Tagged art doll, Calan Ree, ceramic art, ceramic folk art, clay, figurative, folk art doll, forest spirit, glaze, one of a kind sculpture, spirit art, tree art, underglaze
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Illustrated Ceramic Dishes
Whenever I’m working on a figurative piece, I always seem to end up with enough clay scraps to make a little dish out of. They come out so cute that I can’t resist. These miniature paintings on hand- built clay dishes are affordable little pieces of art that can be displayed or put to good [...]
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Tagged bunny dish, Calan Ree, ceramic artist, ceramic dish, clay artist, Clay Work, cool home decor, cool pottery, day of the dead, dia de los muertos, functional art, home decor, illustrated ceramics, little dish, one of a kind, original paintings, ring dish, skull dish, sock monkey art, sock monkey dish
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Don’t Buy this Snow Elf
Don’t buy this snow elf! This chubby fellow is super cute but has a marshmallow obsession that means late nights in the kitchen stirring cocoa and crinkling plastic bags. Super Annoying! Otherwise, he’s really sweet. Snow Elf is a one of a kind art doll made of a lightweight super durable doll making air dry [...]
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