Art is hard, especially when fortified by the flames of a sintering kiln. Make a piece of sturdy, ceramic eye candy with today's deal: for $10, you get $25 worth of studio time and supplies at Doing Dishes Pottery Studio. Start your family's artistic legacy or experience romantic date chemistry by redeeming your Groupon at either Jacksonville location.

Staring at a blank piece of paper can be intimidating, but browsing the blank, premade pottery at Doing Dishes draws hibernating creativity from its den, enticing the brain with shape, size, and bisque meat. Pieces range between $7 and $60, and all merry potters are assessed a modest studio fee of $6, which covers everything required to design and fire a project, including time. Grab a blank plate and paint a meal upon it, stencil a cup with springtime flowers, or decorate a picture frame worthy of being hung inside itself.

No matter what creative choices are made, the studio staff is standing by to assist artists of all ages and skill levels. They'll gladly help you start a project in the brave new world of glass fusion ($10–$60 for studio time and materials). Using a kiln process similar to pottery, glass fusing involves layering colorful glass to create one-of-a-kind designs, heightened by light and hindered by opera singers. This colorful technique is simple and accessible to artists of all plateaus.

At Doing Dishes, artists are welcome to stay as long as they need to complete their beauties. Once complete, pottery-handler staffers will put the finishing glazes, flames, and butterfly kisses on each project. They ask that anxious artists allow one week from their visit before returning to pick up their creations.

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Doing Dishes has more than 200 fans on Facebook and was featured on Jacksonville.com:

• Doing Dishes, [owner Katie] Yallaly said, is unique because it offers fusion glass which requires gluing pieces of cut glass to a blank piece of glass, then firing it in a kiln. With this method, customers can make pendants, ornaments and even clocks. Yallaly said that anyone of any age or skill level would be able to design and make a glass fusion piece... – Amanda St. Germain, Jacksonville.com