Holiday Creations Art Elements Blog Hop
About the time I acquired the concept for this month’s Art Things weblog hop: Holiday getaway Creations, I was setting up to make a established of kitty cat themed ornaments for a tree for our ageing cat. We have a new glassed in front porch and imagined it would be a best way to decorate it for the Holiday seasons. And for ceramic ornaments, it would be risk-free from the factors.
For the final couple of many years we have been having an outside tree rather on a single inside. We have it out on the deck and enhance it with brightly colored netted chook treats. It is so enjoyable seeing the birds flutter about the tree and peck at these “property baked” goodies of birdseed and peanut butter. So this yr we have 2 Xmas trees.
For our kitty cat tree, I used cat formed cutters to lower out the decorations.
They appeared pretty substantial at first but my clay shrinks about 11 % so they looked substantially far better as soon as they were being bisque fired.
I made use of two methods to carry my cat decorations to existence. For some I silk screened on cat drawings (Mayco silkscreens) bisqued them and then included shade
and for many others I did some drawing into the clay. They dried genuinely speedily so by the time I got to them to scratch in some lines, the incisions ended up not quite deep. To strengthen them I utilized a black underglaze and then wiped it off, bisque fired them
and then hand painted on glazes and fired these to cone 5 ( over 2100 levels F)
Finally I embellished the tree.
Our cat who encouraged me
Thank you for becoming a member of me on this Art Elements blog hop now. I had these pleasurable creating these ornaments and decorating the tree. We get pleasure from it just about every time we phase onto our porch.
The record of blog site hop participants is under. I hope you will visit all of them and appreciate their Holiday Creations.
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