Today I've spent the morning glazing 6 more of the porcelain bird bowls as you can see from the piccies above. The far left pic shows the pendants I was working on last week (see my earlier blog on ceramic pendant making). The pendants in the state they're in right now are considered greenware (air dry but un-fired) - this is an ideal time for underglazing because if you make a mistake, you can rub or erase out the line. The 6 bowls however, have already been fired once, or bisqued, and so if one of my lines goes wrong at this stage, I'm screwed :) - I use a black underglaze that behaves very much like black ink. To take a more positive spin on it, I have to come up with a very creative way to cover my mistake(s)....I have good and bad days on this of course. Today I wasn't having a very painterly day and my hand wasn't behaving well, so I had more than one wobbly line, and more than one blob of black in the middle of a field of white that posed a bit of a problem. Ah well, from mistakes sometimes come lovely accidents. Also, I don't use a pencil or anything else to sketch in my drawing first, so I'm relying totally on getting it right the first time.
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