You will not believe that these items were made using clay

The artist's name is Tim Kowalczy. He teaches at Illinois Central College, where I'm a student. You can check out his website to see a lot more of this type of thing; I tried to get a pretty representative sample of his work in this gallery.

Tim's Website:

And if you want, you can try buying some of his work at any of these links, though last time I checked a lot of it was sold out.