Another pottery session has concluded a few weeks ago. My challenge this time was to achieve transparency with water etching. Note that this technique takes FOREVER.
The transparency would be even sharper if I had access to real porcelain, fired at cone 10, but still, I’m quite happy with the results.
These bowls/lanterns are a work of love. I’ve stopped counting the hours it takes to remove the clay with a wet sponge, just to get to that tipping point where removing more would break them, which happened twice.
Fish bowl/lantern: one that got damaged during production, on a day I was all thumbs. Hopefully, I was able to “fix” it by smoothing the curve where a piece fell off, near the lip.
The Hare
The Octopus
