I think I mentioned in my last post that I picked up the fruits and veggies bowl I made in my last class. And here it is! It's a good sized bowl- excellent for a large salad bowl or pasta bowl. Plus this particular piece is really heavy! The neat thing about serving pieces I make in ceramics class is that they are oven safe up to 400 degrees (I think) and are dishwasher safe. I don't put anything in my dishwasher that I value because my dishwasher is lousy (long story) and I'd hate for anything I work on so hard to get chipped.
This piece has lots of good examples of shading, which wasn't that easy to do in the "olden days" of ceramics. But with new paints we have a lot more control. I used Stroke and Coat on this project. Most of the time you'll use Cover Coat if you go to a local ceramics store. You can see some good shading in the pumpkin and the apple.
We just got home from watching Inkheart at the theater. I enjoyed it, but I don't think you can really ever go too wrong with Brendan Fraser. Medium is about to come on, so see you later!
2 comments:
The bowl is lovely and you did such a nice job of shading. I did try ceramics for awhile and made a cat, a gnome and a snowman but I am not much of a painter.
Thanks. I had my art teacher helping me with every stroke, so she should be given more credit than me. A good teacher makes all the difference. I really like the way this one turned out.
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