acrylics. this is fun, but perhaps again, should have been low fire. the director here, darrin ekern, works with low fire and uses future floorwax over underglazes. i am learning to see the wisdom of this practice, for the clay's absorption abilities more than for sheen. i'd prefer a more beth cavener stichter look to the plastic look i'm getting. again, lesson learned.
amaco velvet underglaze. they are not kidding with the "velvet" this stuff is my new favorite.. now i must switch to low fire for sculpture. lesson learned. this had five firings....^04, ^6, ^04, ^04, ^018. i'd explain but it would just hurt your eyes and my head.
these are mugs i've been playing with. left to right, sandblasted with masking, soda fired with engobe, and ^6 with engobe. handbuilding mugs makes me really appreciate slipcasting...a lot.
this is the first moche. pretty much done. though the more i look at it, the more i think i need to go into overdrive on the prints...perhaps it's not done. drop off is tommorrow...it's done.
Reading your post, I just realized that beth cavener stichterv said she only uses Martha Sterwarts interior paint. Apparently it has clay in it too. She did lots of testing to get to that conclusion :)
ReplyDeleteyeah, i LOVE her website... so informative. i think my acrylic days were just that...some days...wonder how printing would go w/latex & cmc?
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