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Delayed ungratification
This is not a new thing, but it’s a follow-up to the unfired plate I posted about last week:
I hate it.
Can any experienced potters out there give me a hint about some way to do this design that would not have come out a gloppy, uneven mess? Laying down a solid orange ground under the brown (except where the blue is) would have helped, I’m thinking, but how can you tell where you’ve already painted, when you’re trying to get a deep color? I’ve clearly got four layers of glaze in some places and one in others. (It only looks blotchy on the unfired photo because the last coat hadn’t yet fully dried; once it’s dry, it all looks the same.)
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First paint orange and blue (1 or 2 coats) to give the “cutout” shapes a solid underneath color.
Then I’d cut the shapes that you want to be orange and blue out of masking tape, and stick em on top of the dried blue/orane glaze.
Then you can go wild and do 2-3 sloppy coats of brown… wait for it to dry… take off the tape and
voila!
That should work?
(Did that make sense? By “sloppy” i mean that once you have the tape shapes on there, you can just paint right over them and since this is a lot faster than detail work, the paint is still wet by the time you’re done with a coat so you can tell you got all the spots wet that you wanted to.)
Yes, that makes total sense. I shudder at the thought of cutting out all those birds and speckles in tape, but I suppose it can’t be more tedious than painting them freehand.