{"id":27237,"date":"2019-07-01T21:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T01:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/?p=27237"},"modified":"2019-07-01T21:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T01:07:31","slug":"water-etching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/2019\/07\/01\/water-etching\/","title":{"rendered":"Water etching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transparency would be even sharper if I had access to real porcelain, fired at cone 10, but still, I\u2019m quite happy with the results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These bowls\/lanterns are a work of love. I\u2019ve 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Octopus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019m quite happy with the results. These bowls\/lanterns are a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceramic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}