Still experimenting with surfaces and with color and texture. Often I feel that the wet clay pleases me more than anything that I do to it after it is fired. In this case I tried three different surface treatments — each one required a firing. Number 1 is wet clay. Number 2 is an oxide treatment — cool, but too busy. Number three shows an application of porcelain slip and some underglaze, with leftover oxide underneath it all. Too white, too pasty. In number 4 I mixed underglazes to get a kind of burnt orange, then added highlights of a complementary green. Though as I look at this quad photo, number 3 looks best to me, in reality the last one I did, number 4, I like best. The color and texture are good and work well with the rock-like base I made.
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