Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Fun with Letters

My first batch of letters - A to L - are now out of the kiln and finished ... thankfully all survived the heat and I'm pretty pleased with the effect.
The pieces were first Bisque Fired to 1000 degrees - then painted with a 'crackle' glaze and re-fired to 1120 degrees. As the glaze cools - tiny hairline cracks form. The next process was to paint the pieces with black ink - the ink seeps into the tiny cracks and sets into the clay underneath ... I then wash the ink off the pieces in clear water leaving the black ink-filled cracks.














Now it's time to play ...
H goes for a swim in the birdbath ...

H underwater again ...

FD smelling the Dahlias ...

and finally ...
Letter Soup !!!!

cheers for now - Ken Munsie

5 comments:

Barry said...

K These are just great and so well presented in various settings - the H in the blue bird bath looks great; and of course the Lertter Soup is a stunner. B

chuckie said...

These are just great!! I love the presentation!!

confuzed said...

Alphabet soup! These are all delicious.

Fiona Dempster said...

Hi Ken
These really are fabulous and make me feel happy when I look at them. I am particularly happy to be out smelling the dahlias...

F

Linda said...

Hi Ken - what fun. I love the day in the life of...K! Wonder what the rest of the letters will get up to when no-one is looking!
cheers
Linda