Sharp-edge Plate

This plate is destined to draw blood. Red on white. How appropriate! Of course, this is my attempt at a bad joke.  The edge is wonderfully sharp. I purposely left it like that. Retrained myself from smoothing it out. I love the little pointy bits. They formed naturally as the slip dried and gave shape to a curve.

This one in fact was real easy to make. I think I talked about it in a previous post. It is slip casting. All I need to do is to pour the slip and let it sit.

I wonder what my friends at Mud Colony are up to this week. Let's' go check it out   

Plate in the making

Slip casting with kitchen paper.

Making a plate

Ha.....the thing that I spend the most time thinking about has got to be more than just a thing. I am being bold. But I think the word for this is "calling".  Wow! It is big but it is a calling.

I have been playing around in my mind the idea of slip casting a plate. Of course I'm talking about the slip casting I have just shown you in last post.

Here are some pictures of my first attempt. I did 2 plates differently and one didn't survive. It is quite shallow.  An idea just came to me. With the force of gravity, I think we may have a winner. Let me try that out next week.

My Green Tree

I painted this by hand with a gust of sudden inspiration. Wanted it to be green because the day before I made a tree image with print transfer and with red stains.

The plate is glazed with a pearl green color.  Purposely sprayed on very thinly in the center so it would not block my hand painting.