Nearing the End

I have only three weeks left in Italy. È una cosa pazzesca.

Accordingly, we have been experimenting with glazes, finishing our own personal projects (mine turned out to be hidden in the kiln, not broken or stolen), and trying to finish as many pieces as possible for Andrea Salvatore. 

Since I have not posted any pictures for a while, here are some that I took of the items on which I have been working. This is how my amphora looked after the first airbrushing of glossy black glaze over the matte black. When the latex that was covering the painted design melted it left cool droplets of glaze.

The glaze turned out a little bluish and did not fully cover some spots, so I decided to airbrush the whole thing again.

These were the test pieces I used to figure out the glaze combination that I wanted. The tests were not very promising, but I am hoping the final color combination turns out similar to the spot in the top right-hand corner. The fleur-de-lis shape is meant to imitate the "giglio," the lily of Florence, and has a slight relief map of the city. 

This is the giglio shape after I painted it with a transparent blue glaze (olive green before firing), and the burnt orange glaze in the cup will become green when fired. Here you can also see my amphora after it has been re-airbrushed with the glossy black glaze (which turned out to be closer to a midnight blue color). The droplet pattern created by the latex has been amplified by the second coat of glaze. I hope to finish it by painting in between the glaze droplets with a gold or silver lustre glaze, abandoning completely my initial painted design.

This is my finished midterm practical after I glazed it with a transparent wisteria glaze.