Slipcasting is not my favorite process but it is satisfying to see these multiply. WIP lure pipes! 🎣

“Wild American Kitchen” birch soup spoon set (2026) 🥘✨ #oakeydogpyrography

Oh hey I graduated from there! Fuck AI 🖕🖕🖕🖕 a computer can never make what an animal can or see what we do

Playing around with quilt patterns on some bowls 👀

A peek at some more cave art projects I've been working on...

Seen discussion recently of Beth Cavener's work, specifically the erotic/sexual themes and how they're perceived, so I cracked open my copy of her art book to share some writing exerpts and some pieces I think most folks don't know about! (Sorry for bad lighting)

“Sagebrush Lovers” on live-edge basswood (2026) #oakeydogpyrography #woodburning

Bear & wolf cuddle sculpture is complete! Tried out beeswax finish, pleased with the results 🐝

⭐stargazers💛 custom pyrography on basswood (approx. 13'' dia)

peek at this opossum WIP 💤 gonna be hard to know when to stop adding fur texture to this one!

My wolverine pawprint pendants from @earthen-were.bsky.social just got here. Look how cool they are! I love the thank you doodle too!

Experimenting in the studio today! 🐟 [wip]

im working on another batch of little critter pendants! any species y'all want to see me make? (currently making a horse, raccoon, raven, mammoth, hyena and domestic cat)

Something different, a little beaver sculpture. This piece will be available this Friday, May 22nd at 8pm Eastern time.

Always fun wiping off a glaze wash- can't wait to get this marten into her final firing 🔥

All orders from yesterday are in the post! Thank yall so much! My label printer bit the dust before I could even print off one, but we adapt and overcome 😤 (and cry, why are they so expensive...)

Somehow demolished my wrist while asleep But I also have 15 orders to pack because you wonderful animals bought so many pendants and cords yesterday!!!! I have my work cut out for me today 🐾💕 (thankfully packing is pretty wrist friendly)

Just restocked my track pendants! (Including sold out bear and otter 🐾)

A peek at some more cave art projects I've been working on...

Welcome, new travelers, to the Oakey Dog Trading Co.! 🌲🪵✨ My name is Levi Monroy, and I started Oakey Dog to share a variety of goods with themes that celebrate nature, animals, and queer relationships with the outdoors! Currently based in east central Illinois 🌾 oakeydogtradingco.carrd.com

Jaguar/panther head I have been picking at during downtime while slipcasting 🖤

Finishing touches of glaze on this wolf & bear 🎨

Wild boar woodburning 🔥 My new piece is looking for a new home! Availalble in our shop 👉🛒 www.kerf.hu/product/wild...

Reminder that some very cute cave art pendants are still looking for homes! I've also got a big batch in progress 👀

wolf pipe 🐺 🔺6 white stoneware, underglaze, glaze

“Return of the Coho” on live-edge poplar round (2026) Made to celebrate the explosion in spawning numbers from last spring to this spring for the endangered Central California Coast coho salmon! Well done, fellas! 🎉 #oakeydogpyrography #woodburning

One (1) glazed raccoon pp has been achieved. More experiments and such soon 👀

Heard tell that you can fire and glaze skulls/bones and I have a kiln with a bunch of experiments but it's too hot for me to open and it's KILLING ME!!

Happy Mother's Day! here's some of my animal mama art 💕

bobcat snuggles 💤

⭐stargazers💛 custom pyrography on basswood (approx. 13'' dia)

Sleepy opossum WIP, excited to burn more cherry wood

Mostly successful pit firing done!

"I Saw a Bird" Series, in which @echomary.bsky.social and I make birds out of secondhand saw blades! Hooded mergansers are gorgeous, but I really feel like the understated female is my favorite. She has confidence and great hair. I love her.

Finishing touches of glaze on this wolf & bear 🎨

planned to spend the day sculpting, cut hand via slicing a bagel....perhaps a day of glazing instead 😭

Comic is by Lynda Barry. Here's a version of it with alt text. (Thank you @alex-awoos.bsky.social!)

🌈 'Falling for You' 🍁

Video showing the sculpting and glazing process for the donkey I made a while back!

🔺6 stoneware animal head pendants what critters should I make next?

Just sent off the pendant in lrp to its new home, bye lil beav! Many thanks to those who have been ordering little things from me lately ♥

beaver pendant 🦫 🔺6 red earthenware, black underglaze

deep in the mold making mines this week and it's pretty boring BUT check out this bear press mold 🐻

Gaia Happy Beltane! Around April and May, deep in their dens, wolf pups are being born. 🥰💚🐺

pendant drop is here! teeny tiny cave art you can wear & all animal tracks restocked! (+ new porcupine & pronghorn tracks!) 🐾 www.earthen-were.com 🐾

got this beat up handmade wooden bowl from a resale shop and restored it! 😲

used a nice new Boos brand board (made just an hour from my house!), pleased with the results! more pics below, available on my site 🐟

the pull (2016?) 🏹🩸 stoneware, glaze, coated wire

Pheasants, anyone? 🌾 [wip]

bird bowl