A few weeks ago, a client called me up to say that his wife’s favourite bowl had been smashed
He bought it from a gallery in 1997, and could he commission me to make another one?
I did recall the frog bowl when I saw it, poor thing all bandaged up with sellotape! but it was made in the days when I made my own glazes, and I had not ever bothered to write down the recipes. Big mistake.
It was interesting to try to work out what was going on with the design and the glaze, but I could not remember the sequence of things. I knew that I had used casting slip and not solid clay, and that each piece had been cast separately and then assembled inside a press mould. I decided to make several bowls and experiment a bit along the way.
I also had not used my spray gun for years so it was pretty gunked up. The compressor worked a treat, though, which was nice.
Here is a bowl inside the spray booth.
It is hard to tell what colour they will come out once they’ve been glazed in the kiln.
I think perhaps they are too pale, and what was meant to be red frogs turned into pink frogs instead. I quite like the finished result, though, and I think I’ll show them to my client before I re-glaze them.
God they look lovely 🙂 What a fantastic skill you have 🙂
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Oh, thank you xxx Not exactly copies of the first bowl, though. I hope they’re similar enough for him to like it.:-)
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do you find that you can only ever do something once? I do. I can do similar but never the same. This is drawing at least.
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Considering you made the original 15 years ago, and didn’t write the process down, I think you have done a great job in the attempt to copy
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Thank you, Mondrak. I had fun with it, but I still think the frogs should have been more red. However, I prefer them paler so I’ll wait to see what Bryan and Susan think before I re-glaze.xxx
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so beautiful… so beautiful. Thank you dear Anna, love, nia
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Love to you, too, and thanks for visiting xx
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