It
probably comes as no surprise that I try to get as much mileage out of various
designs/ decoration as is possible. It has absolutely nothing to do with being
lazy, rather the truth is that coming up with good designs that work well on my
forms is not a walk in the park so to speak; for every design that works there
certainly are quite a number of missteps. When it comes to the carved
decoration that I do, it is a simple transition to go from terra cotta and
black slip to porcelain and black slip as the technique works across the board
in relation to various clays and slips. It only makes sense that a design like
the scimitar grasses would work in black and white and create a much different
visual than that of the rich terra cotta and black. Though the porcelain and
terra cotta fire to much different temperatures I usually make a group of eight to ten of each so that once I get
carving I stay in the groove and kill two birds with one stone.
"Pleasure
and action make the hours seem short." William Shakespeare (Othello)
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