Decoration - even colour!

Last Wednesday I got back my flower pedestal piece, which I had coloured with underglaze and then applied a clear glossy glaze.  I used yellow, orange and red on the flower, mixing some of the shades and applying with a brush.  The pedestal I painted in a couple of shades of green.  I am never confident about any decoration at all, certainly not using colour, and I am very pleased at how this piece has turned out.

Flower Goblet

  I took some of my own clay along to this week's class, and started pinching a new flowery pot.  Continuing at home while it was still soft enough I formed the petal tops, then when it was drier I scored lines for the edges of the petals down to the foot of the pot.  I later decided it would be better to have multiple rows of petals, more like a chrysanthemum, but after much messing about went back to the original idea - the chrysanthemum will have to be another pot!

Pinch pots #1

One of the options I have chosen is pinched forms - not something I've done very much in the past or had any great success with, but on the first week of the course I had a go at one with everyone else and loved the technique and the finished article so much it seemed like a good idea.  Plus it works very well with the nature theme I am going for, being far less strict than something like throwing, less severe than slabbing - just perfect.

The story so far

I  have loved creating things since I was a child.  I usually lack the imagination required to come up with something new and unique; I am more of a copier - I will happily draw something that already exists, or play written music, but if you ask me to produce something entirely from my imagination I will most likely produce nothing at all.

I have flirted with a variety of art and craft techniques, and while I have found some firm favourites and have abandoned others, I find that experiencing one thing usually ends up helping in some way with another thing.  Like everything in life, I suppose.