Sunday, July 14, 2013

The blackboard style

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.

The circular disks are a bit smaller about 3 inches in diameter.

And these ones are even smaller about 2 inches across the widest part.
These last two are just reversed color placement.

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.

3 comments:

  1. Just 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.

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  2. I like the black with white - have you done any checkered ones? or diamonds?

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