after Throwing and trimming the
form out of a mid temperature stoneware, I apply
terra sigilatta to create a background
colour.
This terra siggilatta is stained
with a comercial teal stain.
The
prints are selected and composed in
reverse as they will be flipped over
during the process.
After bisque firing, clear glaze is brushed
on the strokes and applied to the crest. Then a high Magnesium glaze airbrushed
on with underglazes over top to tone the whole thing down some. Finally it's
ready to glaze fire and done!
then
the prints are covered with a contrasting colour of terra sig. and applied carefully
to the form.
Brushstrokes
of other colours of slip and terra sig are applied, drawn through, and then
trailed over using other colours of stain.
The
paper from the transfers is peeled away carefully in order not to mar the images
underneath and the whole thing gone over to finalize the composition with brushstrokes,
smudges, and whatnot. I'm sorry not to have pictures of the laying on of the
prints to the form but my camera ran out of room and I had no way of offloading
them that day. Argh - the wonders of modern technology!
