ONE AT A TIME?

Last week I mentioned that I had settled on and made a number of groups of pieces to go to Connecticut in November. Among the styles selected is a small group of plum blossom pieces which includes a square tray form and misc. bowls and this picture is of them just recently decorated and detailed with sgraffito to outline each blossom. I like working in groups as it makes more sense to decorate ten similar pieces at a time then just one at a time, completing them as singular pots. Normally I try to get as many pots of a particular style going at the same time, normally I can get about twenty pieces or so laid out and going from one to another I can get each element completed so that by the time I am ready to incise the details around each leaf or blossom, the surfaces are nearly dry which is the best time for the sgraffito. I currently have a fair amount of pots drying that will need to be decorated but at the moment getting these smaller groups of falling leaves and plum blossom pieces completed gets me one step closer to getting everything buttoned up.