There
was a time, a long, long while ago where when I was decorating bowls and plates
that I would just throw all caution to the wind, free wheelin' and making up
designs with the pot in hand, as you can imagine this was accompanied by a fair
amount of crash and burn pottery. Slowly but surely I worked out designs on
paper, with pencil mind you and then using ink on the pot surface. This
particular carved porcelain "grasses" bowl shows the ink quite well
along with a design that I just couldn't make work, especially after having
carved over a dozen other pieces that day. The inked decoration was to be based on an oak leaf design that I have used
before though in a set pattern and layout, this attempt was entirely
unscripted, not well planned out and 110% free hand. In the end I just couldn't
make it work and fell back on the "grasses" decoration which just
works so well around round bowls and plates. Maybe for the next go around, I'll
spend a few minutes with paper & pencil and see how to make the decoration
work before I just decide to just jump in head first.
Just a song I like by Mary Fahl, BEN
AINDI HABIBI;
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