Jul 29
I saw something like this on pinterest, where a woman showed how to use washable gel glue as a resist to batik dye a tee shirt. She wrote something on there, but I decided to use a mehindi design. On the left, you can see where I’ve drawn the design in glue and let …
May 30
. One might wonder why I used a non-transparent glaze here. I was hoping that if I did it thin enough and feathered it light by rubbing it with my finger, I’d get a bright color and not lose the design. Almost worked. Our only translucent glazes at the Tempe Arts Center are clear and …
May 28
When I do surface decoration on a piece I’ve thrown, I almost always have to work freehand, because I rarely remember to bring books and references from home to the pottery studio. For this piece, I remembered to bring books, and I used mehindi designs. I like mehindi designs because they are adaptable, and because …
Aug 18
I had more fun with henna tonight and Friday night. Some people volunteered to let me use their skin as canvases, though I didn’t remember to photograph all of it. I’m afraid that the batch tonight was mislabled and contained some indigo, because it was unusually blue-green. :( Either that or I added too much …
