I've been playing about with this cardboard template to work out some ideas for a reliquary. I was quite pleased with it and remembered just in time that I needed to make the templates bigger to allow for shrinkage. I'm calling it 'the birds and the bees'.
This is one of the casseroles out of the kiln this week. I am very poor at taking photos of my work and so often things go off and I realise too late that I haven't kept a record of them. Sometimes it's helpful to keep a record to go back to ideas and build on them. So today in the middle of cooking Sunday roast I shot outside into the sunshine to try and record this weeks firing. I only photographed this one though because I had to re-organise my priorities and rescue the lunch!
I've been playing about with this cardboard template to work out some ideas for a reliquary. I was quite pleased with it and remembered just in time that I needed to make the templates bigger to allow for shrinkage. I'm calling it 'the birds and the bees'.
This is one of the casseroles out of the kiln this week. I am very poor at taking photos of my work and so often things go off and I realise too late that I haven't kept a record of them. Sometimes it's helpful to keep a record to go back to ideas and build on them. So today in the middle of cooking Sunday roast I shot outside into the sunshine to try and record this weeks firing. I only photographed this one though because I had to re-organise my priorities and rescue the lunch!
Hope the lunch was as divine as the pot! I find photographing and recording everything is such a pain, but as you say, helpful if can do it.
ReplyDeleteI love your reliquaries and your pottery with the owls, birds and feathers on them. What are your sources for the images?
ReplyDeleteI like to cover white clay with black slip, carve the birds on the pottery, and then soda fire them. A great source for owl and bird pics in general is the photo gallery section of WeatherUnderground:
http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/
Just enter the birds that you are looking for.
ConnieN