Details
| First Name | Linda |
| Last Name | Arnold |
| Nickname | Ludlow |
Social Media
| Website |
My Ceramics
| In the studio I like to do | Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel |
| Pottery Wheel | I have 2 Brent C wheels |
| Clay body | Porcelain |
| Clay Brand | Armadillo |
| Kiln Type | Electric Kiln |
| Kiln Atmosphere | Oxidation Atmosphere |
| Temperature | Mostly Cone 5/6 some Cone 10 |
| Glaze | I use Amaco’s Velvet Underglazes quite a bit as well as their Potters Choice Glazes. I also use Coyote glazes and have just stared to make my own glazes. I am obsessed with Crystalline Glazes, so one I get the basics down, I’ll be working on crystals. |
| You can buy my work from | My work is available on Etsy or you can buy it through my website, Whimsikettle.com |
About Me
| Introduction | Well Hello there! My name is Linda Arnold, I am a mostly self-taught potter who is obsessed with teapot and tea sets.  I have taken one semester of pottery at my local community college to see if I could handle being on the wheel. I can; but I still need lots of practice. I enjoy hand-building and being challenged. I still consider myself new to pottery as I’ve only been doing this for about 6 years. I let the pottery wheel intimidate me for about a year (or 2), so I’ just now starting to throw more and get better. I am looking forward to learning more about, well, everything so I can become a better potter. |
| What I Love about Ceramics | I love that you are taking something from the earth and literally changing it, making it into something amazing, wether it be useful, functional or Art.  I like being able to watch people use their hands to make something, as there are many people who will not. |
| How I started with ceramics | In 2014, my family (and our Boy Scout Troop) when to DisneyWorld for summer camp that year. It was also the year that horrid “Maleficent” live action movie came out.  I and a Disney fan and Maleficent is my favorite (Don’t get me started on the live action movies – they are horrid) and I was so disappointed there wasn’t more Maleficent merchandise for sale.  So when I got home, I decided to paint my own with acrylic paints on white, glazed pottery I could get anywhere.  That set lead to 3 others that I painted and gave away to friends for birthdays and Christmas that year. Then in 2015, one of my friends asked for a set to be painted for her BFF. She said that she would want to use it, so that lead me down the ceramic path so that her set would be useable and not just to collect dust. And that is how Whimsikettle came to be. |
| What inspires me | I am inspired by other potters, by painters, by my family, heck and amazing sunset inspires me. I see colors differently, see shapes and composition in different ways now. Depending on what you’re working on or what you want to create, any number of things can inspire you.
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| What I'm working on at the moment | I am creating a canister set for one of my Scouting friends which will have some carving in it. She’s challenged me by limiting me to painted and Grey and Navy, so I’m still working on figuring out how I’m going to paint it while it’s drying.  My husband also challenged me to throw 100 tea cups to help me refine my shape. So far I’m on teacup #2. |
