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Old Shed Studio is the Ceramic Practice of Melissa Scheinfeld Featuring Porcelain Home Goods, Made in the Backyard

Pottery hand made with intention in East Austin

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Pourovers are a success! You can expect to see more of these from me. I find them charming, delightful, and very important. And my friends say they work! The morning ritual of coffee happens each morning in homes of all shapes and sizes in nearly
New home for a spotted vase! 🥹 I’ve been starting the day with texts from y’all with photos of pottery that went on a little trip and traveled home with you. It might be the greatest part of an already wonderful studio tour experienc
Marbled tumblers, chaotically glazed, in a way that screams joie de vivre. Confetti, streamers, ribbons, and dancing in the rain. I’m in love. Too effusive? Come decide for yourself. Colored porcelain, glazed and fired at the incomparable @
Here’s something different. Welcome to the carnival. Testing out some hand building, laminating slabs with colored clay patterns, and keeping it playful. What do you think, do they need gold to really get the effect or keep them like this so
Thornless mesquite - Texas Native. There’s a thornless mesquite just outside the window of my studio. It’s elegant and wispy but also upright and strong. It retains its wonderful fern-like leaves all year long. Sometimes I pick a frond
Porcelain agateware bowl with mishima inlay. The ginkgos illustrated on these bowls came from a tree planted 50 years ago by my mother-in-law on her farm in Illinois because “ginkgos have longevity.” I love thinking about how the applica
Germinate through fire. 🔥 I felt more fiery than usual so I made these agateware copitas with red-stained porcelain. Each is illustrated with either a lodge pole pinecone or a protea flower, two plants that require fire as a part of their germin
Happy Full Moon! 🌕 These moon mugs came out of the kiln this morning, birthed on the day of the last super moon of 2024. (Did you know I’m into this? I am. Big time.) Tonight’s full moon is an amazing opportunity for setting intentio
Assorted festival vases. Colored flecks, once wedged into white porcelain, dance and swim throughout the vases. Porcelain with colored stain, fired by the power of the Texas sun in Old Shed Studio in East Austin.
Austin Studio Tour! Will you come visit me at stop #397 from 12-4 both Saturday and Sunday?Artists all over East Austin will have their studios open to the public this weekend. Here are my tips: 1) download the app “Austin studio tour&rdquo
Serving bowl, ready for a big steaming bowl of pasta with homemade marinara sauce. Maybe a jewel-colored fruit salad studded with pomegranate seeds. Or a mountain of sourdough bread slices, crusty on the edges and chewy in the center, next to a plat