acorns, oak leaves, and porcelain back to the pot shed for the first time for months and I have been picking up the oak leaves I have been so enchanted by to impress into clay. porcelain is the best material for retaining and showing off an impression – to start with I have been layering porcelain into stoneware clays – I do like the contrasts I get with this technique, and the extra depth of all the edges. not all leaves – here is one that has been attacked by the spaghetti spoon. the remnants of the cut out ovals make shapes which demand to be attached as wings, or flanges. today I worked with just the porcelain, rolling it out on a board contaminated with stoneware, iron bearing clays – this will give me some mottling and interesting variations under the glazes. I have a shaped piece of wood with a slot and holes in it, which works well as a repeated shape. a very small acorn still in its cup makes the round shapes, with more oak leaves as a border. I am listening to the Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi, a hard sci-fi novel – which is almost an inspiration, with its convoluted plot and descriptions of strange spaceships and habitats, exo-memories and many other weird goings on. constructing a sci-fi bottle … there’s my ipod telling me stories on the bench …. a tall slim cylindrical bottle and a one-winged vessel ….. the short afternoons limit my making, it starts to get dark after three, and I leave the rest of the porcelain wrapped for tomorrow. Post navigation back to Moreno Leónvirgins and bandits One Comment Very interesting, as always! Bet you are happy to get back to the ‘shed’! 🙂 Reply Leave a ReplyCancel reply This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.