Showing posts with label esgrafiado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label esgrafiado. Show all posts

Friday, August 10, 2012

The Hobbits

I am a fan of mostly everything that is related with fairies, elves, gnomes... so when a classmate didn't want his pot anymore and offered to me I say quickly yes!

Somehow from the moment I saw it I imagine a houses in a starry night and what better houses can be that Hobbits' houses.... maybe I am influenced by all the advertisement of the new movie, I just can't wait to see it. Below is my version of the Hobbits's ville, if I coul only reproduced it in my garden. . . maybe I should try!





Thursday, May 31, 2012

Inca Summer

I was taking some photos the other day, took me so long to just take photos of 7 bowls, I guess I will have to keep practicing. Any way, here there are..



There are more photos here: Inca Summer and here Barro y Arena

Friday, April 20, 2012

The new critter says: Who am I ???

I decided to post the photos of the greenware pots I was decorating with the sgraffito technique  on Monday/Tuesday. I was thinking of just doing more birds and cuyes a.k.a. guinea pigs. But temptation of trying new animals was toooo strong, plus I had this weird looking bowl and I said to myself, even if I missed it out, it wasn't the nicest bowl anyway. It sounds silly but I have to say those things to myself in order to try new things.... maybe I am just a little cuckoo.

So, can you guess what is this new critter that came along to play with me/us ???





Wednesday, March 28, 2012

New critters!

Summer is coming pretty soon and with it, all sort of critters, one of them just stop by my little room, came all the way from Peru, can you recognize it?


The is a greenware bowl and design is made with sgraffito technique. I will take to the studio tomorrow where it will be fired.






Friday, March 9, 2012

My big bowl!

I made a big bowl, a really big one and I did it myself, Kathy (my wonderful teacher) did not help me`this time. Is not a super big bowl is a regular 8 inches, but for me is huge because 5 inches was my limit and even though 3 inches is not a big deal it makes me so happy.  

I did some sgraffito over brown underglaze and since apparently my style is more Kawaii than I thought , I will keep doing my "Inca Summer" design, as my queridisimo boyfriend name this particular design.





Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Red clay and white slip!

Finally I have some time to post some photos. Here is the final product.

Just two bowls, I took photos in different angles so you can see all the design. :)







Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Sgraffito & Slip. Experiment # 2

Experiment with red clay and slip. The pot is still on greenware, can't wait to see how it will look after being fired.




Sunday, December 11, 2011

Saving the Greenware

I got two pieces from my teacher, she again asked me if I wanted to do something with them otherwise she will discard and I don't like that,  I will save anything (almost anything I must admit). Although I should also say, that some pieces don't deserve to be saved, I must learn to let them go....but not these couple.  So I did something with them. I did a sgraffito design with one of them, a bird, bring me back memories of the old good days in Lima, when I was studying drawing animation. I think one of my characters from the short film animation will show up again very soon :)  I wonder if Edith or Maria Angelica will remember it...







With the second vase I wanted to try a design with slip and carving. I didn't have the official potter tool, the slip trail applicator, so I used a piping bag instead. It doesn't work quite exactly as I planned, or maybe the vase was a bit to dry or maybe I just need more practice or maybe the slip had not the right consistency.... many maybes, I will keep trying.