Sharon Gottula
If you love playing with art materials subscribe and join me while I explore using all the art mediums: My favorites are collage, encaustic, and watercolor. Find fine art for sale and a free art kit for submitting your work to shows in style on my website. In my past life I was a commercial photographer and my lighting course for artists is available now. Join me for collage experiments, marketing ideas, and my true love encaustic.
Sharon Gottula
Ceramics doesn’t wait for you…
You wait for ceramics.
It’s been years since I’ve had my hands in clay. Luckily, I’m married to an expert—so with Marc’s guidance, we’ve got about one-third of the cocoons cast for the Extinction Chandelier.
Here’s the thing about ceramics: once you start pouring the molds, you’re on its timeline. You can’t walk away halfway through and come back later like an encaustic painting. Every pour, every release, every drying phase has to happen in rhythm.
For now, that rhythm means my studio life is all slip, plaster, and the slow choreography of drying forms. The Extinction Chandelier will fill the Shift Window Gallery in November, delicate ceramic monarch cocoons suspended in the space.
It’s both beautiful and uneasy. Monarchs are migrating less each year, their flight paths shrinking as climate change reshapes our planet.
This installation is my meditation on fragility, persistence, and the strange beauty of survival.
November 1 is coming fast. The kiln is calling, and the clock is ticking.
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Sharon Gottula
Tomorrow is the day!
My class is dropping and you'll learn how to photograph you artwork like a pro... even if you only have a phone.
We're covering lighting, tripods, settings in you phone and DSLR cameras, color temperature and so much more.
Need to sign up? tinyurl.com/4dckjxa6
You'll get this as well as classes from 26 other artists every week for a year.
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Sharon Gottula
Normally when there is a microphone in my face I'm talking about how to show up on camera as your best self. This time I got to talk about my second passion... Encaustic art. If you want a break from business work this Friday –after all the markets are closed – take a few minutes to hear about the art scene at Magnuson Park Gallery and my love for Encaustic and (no surprise here) marketing.
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Sharon Gottula
This Saturday April 19th I'm teaching a 3-hour workshop all about how to photography your artwork using gear you can buy for under $500 or at the very least rent from your local photostore. If you are the Seattle area come join me and elevate your photo skills.
Register here: www.schack.org/classes-workshops-events/photograph…
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