I love the water towers around town and I have taken quite a few photos of them. I had turned one of the images into a stamp so that I could make decals or photo litho transfers. This image, however, was made using an EZ Screen. This image was burned onto the screen and then I used a red Mudtool rib to squeegee some underglaze through. I made the screen while I was in North Carolina and I have wanted to try it out again since I got back home. I found a jar of underglaze that had conveniently dehydrated itself for me so that it was a good and gloppy thickness to print. I've been needing a coaster so that is where I started. This image came out great on the wet clay.
I tried it again on this leather hard piece and had a more difficult time. This is on the interior of a long, oval dish so there was a slight curvature and I was trying to figure out how to get the squeegee to get the whole thing at once. I missed a few spots but I also think the print didn't work as well because of the dryer clay.
I've been trying to get out of the round mode of thinking that I get stuck in as a wheel throwing potter so I made this fun little cloud candy dish. It looks flat in this picture but I actually draped the shape over a small oval plaster mold. Super fun!
Shall we have a bit of sgraffito? I free-handed my design with a pencil before I got started with the scritchy scratchin'.
I'm feeling like it is a bit too busy. Next time I think I will have more contrast without quite so much pattern going on but I am enjoying it. Uh, but I painted the back black also so I still have to do something with that side. Hmmm...
