Two dimensional art
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morgainaYeah, really it is. I bought the bisqueware (hangs head in shame) because I wanted to make the kids travel mugs for Christmas (a request from miss
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dancing_guru )and these came with well-fitting lids. So I painted them with low-fire underglazes that I did not formulate myself (hangs head in shame a second time) except for my exterior glaze, with which I am not yet satisfied. If ceramics are done right IMHO, the surface design is there to enhance the shape. With this style, my attention to the shape was secondary (hangs head in shame a third time).
But dayum this was fun. Way, way fun. I could have yet another obsession to deal with.
This mug was given to handsome Goth middle son. I thought it would be appropriately spooky with unleafed trees. He was born in the year of the boar.
The dancer was given to beautiful dancer daughter. I was reasonably happy with the sketch of the dancer on the mug. The center mug is from a very early Middle Eastern Design for handsome performance art son #1; and is kind of bizarre because so is he. The hare is for my wonderful DIL. She was born in the year of the hare, which is also Middle Eastern Design rather than the common cute Western Bunny image.
This view shows the Middle Eastern decoration. When #1 son and DIL took me to the Chicago Art Institute Museum this year, as I mentioned in a summer post, there was a major exhibit of Medieval Islamic Ceramics. So these designs celebrate some of the designs we saw there if not the glaze colors.
My friend Lizette, who is so excellent at this style of painted glaze, lays her glaze down flat and even. Her work is superb, but at this point, I don't think I am interested in that effect. I like the unevenness, although it certainly isn't where I want it to be yet.
I am going to post some other pics of pottery I gave for gifts this Christmas & birthdays later. So be forewarned ;-)
dancing_guru )and these came with well-fitting lids. So I painted them with low-fire underglazes that I did not formulate myself (hangs head in shame a second time) except for my exterior glaze, with which I am not yet satisfied. If ceramics are done right IMHO, the surface design is there to enhance the shape. With this style, my attention to the shape was secondary (hangs head in shame a third time).But dayum this was fun. Way, way fun. I could have yet another obsession to deal with.
This mug was given to handsome Goth middle son. I thought it would be appropriately spooky with unleafed trees. He was born in the year of the boar.
The dancer was given to beautiful dancer daughter. I was reasonably happy with the sketch of the dancer on the mug. The center mug is from a very early Middle Eastern Design for handsome performance art son #1; and is kind of bizarre because so is he. The hare is for my wonderful DIL. She was born in the year of the hare, which is also Middle Eastern Design rather than the common cute Western Bunny image.
This view shows the Middle Eastern decoration. When #1 son and DIL took me to the Chicago Art Institute Museum this year, as I mentioned in a summer post, there was a major exhibit of Medieval Islamic Ceramics. So these designs celebrate some of the designs we saw there if not the glaze colors.
My friend Lizette, who is so excellent at this style of painted glaze, lays her glaze down flat and even. Her work is superb, but at this point, I don't think I am interested in that effect. I like the unevenness, although it certainly isn't where I want it to be yet.
I am going to post some other pics of pottery I gave for gifts this Christmas & birthdays later. So be forewarned ;-)
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Date: 2007-12-27 04:42 am (UTC)In addition, I'm not certain where I could find the lids that come with the bisqueware. I've tried making some out of clay and they aren't such a tight fit. So there is that too.