Bob Guenthner on wed 19 apr 06
Quite a while back before we started to do pottery we bought a bowl that has
a leaf imprint in it. It has dark in the veins and lighter in the rest of
the leaf. The rest of the bowl is blue. What can I try and how do I get
the leaf to have the dark veins and lighter everywhere else while the rest
of the bowl is blue?
Thanks,
Bobg
Don Goodrich on wed 19 apr 06
Hi Bob,
One way to do this would be:
Make a bowl.
Impress a leaf into the clay.
Bisque fire the bowl.
Brush liquid latex around the outside of the leaf impression.
Apply stain or underglaze to the leaf impression.
Sponge the color from the impression. There should be more left
in the vein areas than the rest of the leaf.
Brush wax resist on the impression. Allow it to dry.
Peel off the latex from the leaf perimeter.
Glaze with blue glaze & fire.
I bet there'll be different suggestions. It'll be interesting
to see what appears.
Good luck,
Don Goodrich
goodrichdn@aol.com
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:32:23 -0400, Bob Guenthner
wrote:
>Quite a while back before we started to do pottery we bought a bowl that
has
>a leaf imprint in it. It has dark in the veins and lighter in the rest of
>the leaf. The rest of the bowl is blue. What can I try and how do I get
>the leaf to have the dark veins and lighter everywhere else while the rest
>of the bowl is blue?
>
>Thanks,
>Bobg
Barbara Francis on wed 19 apr 06
Bob, I use a lot of leaves in my work and use a green glaze that just turns darker inthe veins because it pools there. If you paint the glaze on the leaves only, then you can mask the leaves off with wax or better yet, liquid latex. I just started using that and I love it because it saves me a lot of time cleaning off wax. Then the bowl can be dipped in the blue glaze. You can also paint the leaves in a green, then scrape the glaze off so the glaze just stays in the recessed areas, then use a second lighter glaze on the leaves, mask if off and then glaze with the blue. Hope this makes sense. Barb
Bob Guenthner wrote: Quite a while back before we started to do pottery we bought a bowl that has
a leaf imprint in it. It has dark in the veins and lighter in the rest of
the leaf. The rest of the bowl is blue. What can I try and how do I get
the leaf to have the dark veins and lighter everywhere else while the rest
of the bowl is blue?
Thanks,
Bobg
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