Have had the most wonderful week playing with surface pattern and images on porcelain slab samples so that I have an idea of how work directly onto my porcelain houses/rooms. First I used a technique I saw Jenny at varsity using a couple of weeks back. She
used stamps to press into the clay, brushed slip on quite thickly when leather hard and
then scraped off with a kidney leaving the slip in the impressions left by the
stamps. Then yesterday and today I took images from my sketch book and translated them onto the patterned porcelain slabs with a Peter Beard oxide and a very thin brush.
So here I have scratched and imprinted the clay, covered with slip and then scraped back
The next pictures are of the same porcelain greenware slabs with images painted onto them
This is all part of my desire to layer images
and textures as I do in my sketch book. So these samples, once fired to bisque
will have more layers on them of glazes, perhaps transfers and lustres...
