Last
week I showed a square plate being made on a hump mold and thought to show one
just recently slip trailed. This particular piece is larger than the one shown
and I have attached lugs to the rear so that the tray can hang on the wall.
After the form was pulled off the mold and fine tuned I first coat the surface
with black slip and after about an hour I go back in and slip trail the design,
in this case a pair of fish. As I have probably mentioned I came by the slip
trailing kind of naturally working with Bill Klock way back when as he was
influenced by Bernard Leach whom he studied with and by Michael Cardew who he
took every opportunity to visit while at the Leach pottery. I have tried to
impart a casual look to my slip trailing and this is aided by the simple fact
that you only have one shot at the decorating part of the process, if you screw
up, it shows, its just a done deal.
Moving
in to the weekend, here is a novel cover of one of my favorite tunes of the
1990s;
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