These letters are all in the style of a blackboard with chalk writing on them.
Mostly I used a charcoal colored slip underglaze and trailing white slip for the decoration.
This text is the exception. For it, i just scgraffitoed through the slip. It resulted in a sharper, more defined line . To do it this way you need to catch the clay before it gets too dry to carve the line cleanly.
Maybe I should make some of these even smaller and thinner out of porcelain that would be appropriate to use as pendants. I could see them layered with various other types of pendants.Last year I made quite a handful of tiny little disks like this and just stamped numbers on. Haven't really done anything with them. But they were fun to make.
I like those wild west ones!
ReplyDeleteJust getting caught up with your clay blog... the tiles and letters are fantastic. It's really neat to see how the glazes seem to work. And I could definitely see the lettered discs as pendants. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteI like the black with white - have you done any checkered ones? or diamonds?
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