Paper Pottery
Alasdair has been guiding me through the process of making one of his Bonnie Birds…it’s not a process I will be repeating in the near future! First you have to make the armature, which is quick and easy enough. Then comes the mache, which refuses to stick to the armature. Alasdair’s most helpful advice was [...]
Continue reading about bonnie birds – taking lessons from the master
It’s been commented on in the past that there are strange things going on in the dark recesses of my mind, that they seem to bleed out into the light through what I create … I think ‘they’ may have a point. I seem to have a raft of canvasses lying around and despite repeated [...]
Regular readers may well recall these bowls in their original form, you can see them here. As then they were blue, and they are finished with varnish. What is different is the depth of the ‘sub-coat’ I apply to these pieces, the method in which the paint was applied and finally the varnish used is [...]
This is the final set of mushroom inspired paper pottery bowls, the other sets can be seen here and here. All three sets were made using the same set of moulds, although despite this I think they are all quite different in terms of shape, of course the variation in colour also helps to accentuate [...]
Continue reading about Mushroom bowls in red ~ the final set
I’ve been meaning to make these for an age and whilst the inspiration is very much borne of the spring time the design is based on an earlier bowl I made way back when, here. I don’t know about you, but as we prepare to plunge into the depths of winter (haven’t we already plunged?) [...]
This is the second set of bowls I’ve made along the mushroom lines, of course mushrooms don’t traditionally come in shades of blue, but then traditionally bowls don’t come in the form of mushrooms. I have been keen to experiment with colour and whilst I was initially sceptical about making these blue they are beginning [...]
Continue reading about Mushroom bowls in blue ~ another set of three
This is the first finished set of paper pottery bowls that I mentioned earlier (below) when I was showing the ‘little red bowl’. The original inspiration for these bowls is obviously mushrooms, although the notion to create a set or two was borne of an earlier single bowl I made which is available in the [...]
It’s been quite some time since I did any paper pottery and it was something i was pleased to get back to a two or three weeks ago when I decided I needed a rest from the ‘plant pokes’ I’d been working on. The piece shown here is the first of nine pieces I’ve been working [...]
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