Liz Gowen on thu 10 oct 02
Marianne, while you described this method of making the design
below, a thought came to me . After rolling in you cedar, hemlock or
whatever flat leafed evergreen branch, if it will stay in place,
cover the surrounding area in floor wax as a resist( 2 coats if
possible). After the wax dries, probably when the clay is leather
hard? remove the branch, gouge in your berries and squiggles. You
will have cut through the wax resist and you should then be able
to dab in your underglaze before firing. ( won't help those you have
already bisqued though but should work for new ones) let me know
Liz Gowen NJ where we are getting some much needed rain.
> This isn't carving, but a nice technique for slab dishes is to
take some
> tiny delicate cedar branches (I think it's cedar, flat green
needles) and
> lay them out on a slab and roll them in. Then take the end of a
brush and
> press in some groupings of "berries", add a few curly squiggles
with a
> scraffito tool. >
> This is one of the pots I wanted to rub green underglaze into the
> depressions and color the berries red, leaving the rest of the pot
white.
> Unfortunately, I want white, not green smeared white. Oh well. I
guess
> I'll have to sand these to get what I want.
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