This cup, unlike the celadon colored one, is functional because it did not crack in the kiln. Shrank quite a bit, but that happens with porcelain.
Tag: bird
Apr 22
Celadon Bird Cup
To make the surface decoration on this cup, I trailed slip made out of the same clay body. It came in handy that I had drawn several flocks of birds in my comic, coopdegrace.com, because I could draw them again without a reference. This cup, alas, is unuseable, because it has a longitudinal crack inside. …
Apr 21
48 Birds #7: Half Flight
I started out with the gesso resist. I used a greenish wash in the background, with a Victorian bookplate design stamp providing the resist. Since I almost always stick to blue+orange as my color theme, I decided to vary it and go with a sage green+red iron oxide color theme. I did a wash of …
Apr 06
48 Birds #5 Darling Sparrow
I had read about some gesso resist techniques and wanted to try them. The author, whose article appeared in a magazine called “Apprentice Building Blocks” from Somerset, neglected to mention whether one had to paint the background with paint before doing the gesso resist, or whether you were to just paint the gesso on plain …
Mar 15
48 Birds #1: The songbird that teaches
I have been wanting to embark on a collage project. That is to say, I want to start practicing in earnest to become a better mixed media artist. I had a theme in mind: 99 Ravens. I like pictures with ravens, after all, so why not do a series of mixed media with that as …