Painting with engobe, and glazes on Black Mountain clay.
Something is very wrong with the weather here. It is the middle of February, and instead of rains we are having a heat wave. The nature got confused; trees and flowers are blooming early; it seems like nature thinks it is already spring.
I am confused too. I thought brushing glazes on pottery would be fun, and how could it be that potters out there didn't think about it…
mmm, the process itself was really fun. I enjoyed it very much, but the results…
It seems that painting with glazes isn't that simple, or at least, the results are not as I thought they would be.
Maybe, I have to find the right way to paint with glazes, there must be a way to do it right, and as I know myself, I'll work hard to find the way.
The other bowls, which I worked on with sgraffito technique, came out very beautiful, although distorted a little, and do not look as perfect rounding, probably because the technique which needs me to hold the bowl in my lap, while cutting inside.
5 comments:
These are utterly great, I am not sure I know why you are painting the glazes on to the pots, are they all the same transparent glazes on the scraffito bowls? I can see the coloured glazes would be better, easier and cheaper painted, but a transparent glaze is much quicker to dip onto the pots and if they are small they can plunge in completely and count to 5 and out they come. Cleaning off the foot is quick too or you can fire on pins. Tell me Varda are you selling them?
I think the last 5 black and white bowls are particularly lovely.
Love them all, especially the black mountain bowls, love what you are doing with the glazes and engobes, the surfaces are subtle and encourage me to look deeper into them. Your sgraffito bowls are amazing; I can't imagine the patience it must have taken to work on these.
Varda, I scrolled down through your other posts and love the red clay bowls too. If you don't mind my asking, what tool do you use for your sgraffito? I did some sgraffito recently and my lines aren't very straight and I would like to improve.
Here for the first time and I love these bowls! The designs are beautiful and so well done. What an incredibly steady hand you have. How big are your bowls?
Your work is amazing and inspirational. Actually, I love what you're doing with the painted pots, very abstract and moving. Don't stop trying, I like where you're heading. I too paint with my glazes because as a painter it comes naturally but can be time consuming. Lately I've been layering underglazes topped with thin washes of colored overglazes and am pleased with the watercolor like results. I just can't get into dipping my pots unless it's for clear glazes or I want a monochromatic look. Your carvings are mind boggling and the patience involved is beyond my mental reserve. The black and white pots are lovely. Beautiful, beautiful work.
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