GREETINGS EARTHLINGS. If you have found/received a gnome, please share a picture with me of your new friend in your garden, yard, or potted plant. I would love to talk to you as I have been placing gnomes for you to find as I travel around the US, Europe, and even in my hometown of Pittsburgh. You can contact me with your gnome pictures at
Instagram: @pickledalienspottery email: [email protected]
Please read below for the story and some gnome pictures.
Deutsch
GRÜSSE ERDLINGE. Wenn Sie einen Gnom gefunden/erhalten haben, teilen Sie mir bitte ein Bild Ihres neuen Freundes in Ihrem Garten, Hof oder Ihrer Topfpflanze mit. Ich würde gerne mit Ihnen sprechen, da ich Zwerge platziert habe, die Sie auf meinen Reisen durch die USA, Europa und sogar in meiner Heimatstadt Pittsburgh finden können. Sie können mich mit Ihren Wichtelbildern unter kontaktieren Instagram: @pickledalienspottery E-Mail: [email protected] Bitte lesen Sie unten die Geschichte und einige Gnomenbilder.
Polsku
WITAM ZIEMIANKI. Jeśli znalazłeś/otrzymałeś gnoma, podziel się ze mną zdjęciem swojego nowego przyjaciela w ogrodzie, na podwórku lub z rośliną doniczkową. Bardzo chciałbym z tobą porozmawiać, ponieważ umieszczam dla ciebie gnomy, które możesz znaleźć podczas podróży po USA, Europie, a nawet w moim rodzinnym mieście Pittsburgh. Możesz skontaktować się ze mną w sprawie zdjęć gnomów pod adresem Instagram: @pickledalienspottery E-mail: [email protected] Przeczytajcie poniżej historię i kilka zdjęć gnomów.
Instagram: @pickledalienspottery email: [email protected]
Please read below for the story and some gnome pictures.
Deutsch
GRÜSSE ERDLINGE. Wenn Sie einen Gnom gefunden/erhalten haben, teilen Sie mir bitte ein Bild Ihres neuen Freundes in Ihrem Garten, Hof oder Ihrer Topfpflanze mit. Ich würde gerne mit Ihnen sprechen, da ich Zwerge platziert habe, die Sie auf meinen Reisen durch die USA, Europa und sogar in meiner Heimatstadt Pittsburgh finden können. Sie können mich mit Ihren Wichtelbildern unter kontaktieren Instagram: @pickledalienspottery E-Mail: [email protected] Bitte lesen Sie unten die Geschichte und einige Gnomenbilder.
Polsku
WITAM ZIEMIANKI. Jeśli znalazłeś/otrzymałeś gnoma, podziel się ze mną zdjęciem swojego nowego przyjaciela w ogrodzie, na podwórku lub z rośliną doniczkową. Bardzo chciałbym z tobą porozmawiać, ponieważ umieszczam dla ciebie gnomy, które możesz znaleźć podczas podróży po USA, Europie, a nawet w moim rodzinnym mieście Pittsburgh. Możesz skontaktować się ze mną w sprawie zdjęć gnomów pod adresem Instagram: @pickledalienspottery E-mail: [email protected] Przeczytajcie poniżej historię i kilka zdjęć gnomów.
THANK YOU for following the Green Slimeball QR down into the cesspool. If you were expecting some creepy or epic music to start playing, sorry to have already let you down. If you like to read, then this is the one page on this site that has a good bit of words. FAQs are also found down the way.
THE LASTEST NEWS/DISCOVERIES
GARDEN GNOME PROJECT .. ongoing.. hope you find a GNOME in 2024
DID YOU FIND A GNOME? OR DID A GNOME MAKE A NEW HOME IN YOUR GARDEN?
If you found /received a gnome, please share a picture of where you gnome dwells.
Instagram @pickledalienspottery or email [email protected]
GNOMES IN 2024
(pictures on Instagram, coming soon here
Munich Marienplatz, Munich Wonka Gate, Neuschwanstein Castle, Salzburg, Dresden, Bolesławiec, Wrołclaw
THE LASTEST NEWS/DISCOVERIES
GARDEN GNOME PROJECT .. ongoing.. hope you find a GNOME in 2024
DID YOU FIND A GNOME? OR DID A GNOME MAKE A NEW HOME IN YOUR GARDEN?
If you found /received a gnome, please share a picture of where you gnome dwells.
Instagram @pickledalienspottery or email [email protected]
GNOMES IN 2024
(pictures on Instagram, coming soon here
Munich Marienplatz, Munich Wonka Gate, Neuschwanstein Castle, Salzburg, Dresden, Bolesławiec, Wrołclaw
With my little garden gnome slip casting mold, I had this idea of making a bunch of different colored garden gnomes and randomly placing them in neighbors yards with a note that says "You have been gnomed." The purchase of the mold was just out of silliness and became a fun way to test/experiment with glazes.
Summer 2023 Project Beginning
I decided to finally launch the Garden Gnome Project with some gnomes sitting on the shelf waiting for homes. I'm taking some of them to Poland this summer as the kickoff to my project. The Pickled Aliens Garden Gnomes will find homes in some cities and countryside leaving clues to where I have traveled. Yeah I know it sounds like a rip off of the roaming one from the travel site. Also, I would like you to have one. Find me and make it happen.
Summer 2023 Project Beginning
I decided to finally launch the Garden Gnome Project with some gnomes sitting on the shelf waiting for homes. I'm taking some of them to Poland this summer as the kickoff to my project. The Pickled Aliens Garden Gnomes will find homes in some cities and countryside leaving clues to where I have traveled. Yeah I know it sounds like a rip off of the roaming one from the travel site. Also, I would like you to have one. Find me and make it happen.
2024 Sabbatical January - June
I am currently taking time away from the classroom to study independently in some special areas of interest.
Look out for the latest on Instagram in the works described below.
Sculpting the Human Form
Skull Assemblages - using molds and embellishing with handmade sculptural components
Creature Spoon Rests Generation 15b - They are back. I hope you joined the waiting list to snag one from this small batch.
2022 PAST NEWS
This year introduced the human series, which has brought a new character to the forefront of the narrative and no one seems to care. haha
It is Workman Scott, The Time Traveler. Also, the return of Harold from the Pickled Aliens Pottery Greenhouse Shed.
Human Series part 1 - THE TIME TRAVELER
The Time Traveler has arrived. Workman Scott is part of the human series rolling out from Pickled Aliens Pottery. He is in search of the origins of a lost civilization that predated the Creepy Alien Babies , a mysterious culture that Workman Scott believes is responsible for the disappearance of the original Pickled Aliens. We have yet to learn from when Workman Scott originates.
The Workman Scott mug is about 450 ml capacity.
I am currently taking time away from the classroom to study independently in some special areas of interest.
Look out for the latest on Instagram in the works described below.
Sculpting the Human Form
Skull Assemblages - using molds and embellishing with handmade sculptural components
Creature Spoon Rests Generation 15b - They are back. I hope you joined the waiting list to snag one from this small batch.
2022 PAST NEWS
This year introduced the human series, which has brought a new character to the forefront of the narrative and no one seems to care. haha
It is Workman Scott, The Time Traveler. Also, the return of Harold from the Pickled Aliens Pottery Greenhouse Shed.
Human Series part 1 - THE TIME TRAVELER
The Time Traveler has arrived. Workman Scott is part of the human series rolling out from Pickled Aliens Pottery. He is in search of the origins of a lost civilization that predated the Creepy Alien Babies , a mysterious culture that Workman Scott believes is responsible for the disappearance of the original Pickled Aliens. We have yet to learn from when Workman Scott originates.
The Workman Scott mug is about 450 ml capacity.
Human Series part 2 - HAROLD
Harold was a head planter example for a project at school a few years ago. He then was replicated in two sizes and sold due to popular demand. This year he returned as a coffee mug in the original style and a new style named mocha.
Human Series part 3 - Bernard
I should say that my work in pots influences a bit of my clay work at school, #ifyouknowyouknow. It come back the other direction and why am I just now mentioning this? Workman Scott, Harold, and Bernard are all names given to examples of human face jug examples at school that I have brought their likeness to the Pickled Aliens side. Bernard is somewhere to be found in my instagram posts as an eggplant looking jug. He is now the face on a number of jugs that I had a blast throwing and sculpting on. Bernard has been also known as Eugene, Viktor, and Nestor.
Chambray and the Spector - oh yeah Human Series part 4
I used up the last bit of my Chambray glaze this year to see what I could get out of it's floating nature when applied correctly from a batch mixed at correct specific gravity.... just follow the directions! Got some good floats and texture compliments. In the midst of using white stoneware I made a few little weird forms and the face of Bernard went on them, topped with Chambray and there you have the Specter. The first apparition from Pickled Aliens.
CURMUDGEONS!!!!
I had such a great run with the Curmudgeon Series the past three years. They will return again perhaps glazed differently in the future. I have no idea about colors there.
KILN FAILURES
I am very much still limping in some regard from the multiple problems I have encountered with glazes and firing that arrived suddenly kept coming after months of firing on all cylinders making work I have enjoyed and with which glazing started off perfectly. I ruined a good amount of pots including some bowls I worked hard on to crank out. Sadly the failures prevented a new line of Slimeballs and Bavarian Warlock Trolls to be released for the holiday sales.
AFTERMATH
Lots of changes will occur behind the scenes with glaze and firing. I'm not going to go into details about that but I have been simplifying the glaze palette for a couple of years and this really has solidified some things. I am tossing out some old glazes and ways of doing things. Why beat your head against the wall about some of the same crap year after year?
Harold was a head planter example for a project at school a few years ago. He then was replicated in two sizes and sold due to popular demand. This year he returned as a coffee mug in the original style and a new style named mocha.
Human Series part 3 - Bernard
I should say that my work in pots influences a bit of my clay work at school, #ifyouknowyouknow. It come back the other direction and why am I just now mentioning this? Workman Scott, Harold, and Bernard are all names given to examples of human face jug examples at school that I have brought their likeness to the Pickled Aliens side. Bernard is somewhere to be found in my instagram posts as an eggplant looking jug. He is now the face on a number of jugs that I had a blast throwing and sculpting on. Bernard has been also known as Eugene, Viktor, and Nestor.
Chambray and the Spector - oh yeah Human Series part 4
I used up the last bit of my Chambray glaze this year to see what I could get out of it's floating nature when applied correctly from a batch mixed at correct specific gravity.... just follow the directions! Got some good floats and texture compliments. In the midst of using white stoneware I made a few little weird forms and the face of Bernard went on them, topped with Chambray and there you have the Specter. The first apparition from Pickled Aliens.
CURMUDGEONS!!!!
I had such a great run with the Curmudgeon Series the past three years. They will return again perhaps glazed differently in the future. I have no idea about colors there.
KILN FAILURES
I am very much still limping in some regard from the multiple problems I have encountered with glazes and firing that arrived suddenly kept coming after months of firing on all cylinders making work I have enjoyed and with which glazing started off perfectly. I ruined a good amount of pots including some bowls I worked hard on to crank out. Sadly the failures prevented a new line of Slimeballs and Bavarian Warlock Trolls to be released for the holiday sales.
AFTERMATH
Lots of changes will occur behind the scenes with glaze and firing. I'm not going to go into details about that but I have been simplifying the glaze palette for a couple of years and this really has solidified some things. I am tossing out some old glazes and ways of doing things. Why beat your head against the wall about some of the same crap year after year?
Answers to FAQs
Can I put them in the dishwasher and microwave?
Pickled Aliens Pottery are food, dishwasher and microwave safe unless otherwise stated.
Occasionally I use metallic glazes that should NOT be microwaved. Hand washing is preferred by many of my customers.
How do you come up with names for them?
The voices in my head tell me what to do.
Seriously though, I like to research things everywhere from names for sounds to Russian mythological creatures.
Do you do custom orders?
Sometimes, but usually not. Well, here and there if I can get a piece made while I am in production already. This is truly a small-batch operation.
Is this what you do full-time?
I am an Art Teacher by day.
What clay do you use?
I use a variety of Standard Ceramics clay bodies fired to cone 5/6 usually in an electric oxidation atmosphere. Porcelain is used to make the eyes, horns and teeth.
Where is your studio?
Pickled Aliens Pottery is made in my basement, greenhouse shed and back yard.
Where do you get your inspiration from?
I like narratives and stories. Of course I am a bit of a sci-fi fan. May the Force Be with You... Always.
Can I put them in the dishwasher and microwave?
Pickled Aliens Pottery are food, dishwasher and microwave safe unless otherwise stated.
Occasionally I use metallic glazes that should NOT be microwaved. Hand washing is preferred by many of my customers.
How do you come up with names for them?
The voices in my head tell me what to do.
Seriously though, I like to research things everywhere from names for sounds to Russian mythological creatures.
Do you do custom orders?
Sometimes, but usually not. Well, here and there if I can get a piece made while I am in production already. This is truly a small-batch operation.
Is this what you do full-time?
I am an Art Teacher by day.
What clay do you use?
I use a variety of Standard Ceramics clay bodies fired to cone 5/6 usually in an electric oxidation atmosphere. Porcelain is used to make the eyes, horns and teeth.
Where is your studio?
Pickled Aliens Pottery is made in my basement, greenhouse shed and back yard.
Where do you get your inspiration from?
I like narratives and stories. Of course I am a bit of a sci-fi fan. May the Force Be with You... Always.
