This time around I asked my beloved significant other to choose colors from the box, and she pointed to brown toned clay, so I started out using it.Beside that I finished some other side projects.
Finally I got at least some form of Mokugame working. Some sort in the sense that I got the thickness of the top layers in respect to the thickness of the imprint working. But most of all, I managed to get the shaving part more or less correct. I was pleasantly surprised by the colors, I used some pearl-mutter and silver clay and the shine they got was really stunning. Definitely a process to explore further! The blue ones were actually a failed attempt. I tried to imprint on a Mokugame layer a drawing with a dotting tool, but since this now was lower than the mayor part of the clay and probably not deep enough, the shaving didn't work. So I just started scratching the top layer randomly, flattened the scratched-off clay back on the slab and used that. Turned out quite interesting as well, but of course not a geometric as the other pieces. The other pieces was, again, a clean-up action for opened blocks of clay. |
'Esger'
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