Making pottery is amazing in its own right, but some pottery artists really wanted to push the boundaries by making their creations as small as possible. Troy Schmidt, the founder of Red Dragon Pottery, is one of the best miniature pottery artists out there, and he’s making the tiniest ceramic vessels that you’ll ever come across.
Troy Schmidt is a pottery maker and teacher, and he’s been making his miniature wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware for over two decades. He’s no stranger to working on full-sized pottery, but creating 1-inch scales is a much bigger challenge.
“The process of throwing miniatures is very much the same as throwing life-sized pottery except Troy contacts the clay with his fingertips rather than his entire hand and all of the motion of his fingertips is contained within a volume not much greater than one cubic inch,” the artist explains on his official website.
Schmidt enjoys making everything from tiny jars, vases, pitchers, and vases to makeshift gardens and art studios. His ceramics made it to many pottery magazines over the years, and he even taught ceramics in Santa Barbara. Schmidt divides his time between life-size pottery and miniatures but prefers smaller pieces because he finds them most rewarding and fulfilling.
