Morning Sky

Description

Handmade using white earthenware clay and decorated using a combination of coloured engobe slips (liquid clay that will fire and stick onto the body of the pot without the need of being covered with glaze) and oxides. Finished using a combination of an earthenware gloss glaze, (coloured or transparent) and unglazed areas which are sometimes waxed. I rolled out a sheet of clay and pressed it into a plaster press mould and then built upwards and outwards using coils (sausages) of clay. I used three different purples and a light blue engobe slip, painted in a few thin washes layering it up to give it depth of colour and blended in using a rubber tool. The birds and telegraph wires were drawn in using an underglaze pencil after the pot had gone through its first firing. The inside was glazed using a grey gloss glaze. The inspiration for this pot came from a sunrise I saw whilst taking my dog for a walk one cold winter morning.