This is the largest of all six of this series, and can hold maybe sixteen ounces. It has a couple dots of blue glaze that got on there by mistake, but it’s still one of my favorite drinking vessels now.
Tag: scraffito
Jan 12
White Slip Weed Cup 1
For the second set of weed cups, I first tried to scratch in the design and then fill it with white slip, using a metal rib tool to scrape it off. That didn’t work at all. My fellow ceramicists suggested that perhaps I had done it with the clay too wet (It was leather hard …
Nov 14
Scraffito Cup Two
After the first scraffito cups details all got washed out in the high firing, i decided to make it easier on myself and use a simpler technique. I used a scratchboard tool to make fine vertical lines up and down the cup, and radiating out from the center of the saucer. Since I wasn’t trying to …