Showing posts with label Alphabet tiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alphabet tiles. Show all posts

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.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

More tiles

These tiles all have some green on them. I like the chartreuse underglaze, and I have been trying to develop another darker green glaze that won't go all of or brown at cone six

This is closest I've come to a medium green, and I wish I could remember what I did to get it. I think I must have combined chartreuse with another color.





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