END OF DAY III

I put off dealing with a group of eight small porcelain bowls until the very end of the day today. All eight were black slipped and two of the bowls were intended to not be carved so I went with this chattering technique where I use the very corner of the tool to create these marks. This technique isn't fool-proof and it causes the occasional skip in the design which personally I like, it breaks the routine and symmetry of the decoration and gives the surface a bit more pep. My current plan is to glaze them in the soda blue but things are fluid and always open to change depending on if I have enough glaze on hand, this approach is called the glaze lottery, using what I have enough of when it comes time to get things glazed and loaded, unless it is an order or commission. Since it is highly unlikely that I will win the $1B lottery, the chances are this will be my best odds for the day; a one in four chance of a suitable surface.