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The Classicist
The top poem is ‘The Divine Image’ from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence. The lower poem is ‘The Human Abstract’ from Songs of Experience.
Half way through finishing the lower piece I realised I should have done it upside down rather than just right aligned. So that at any one time only one of the poems would have been the correct way up to read. Live and learn.
Maybe next year when the students are having their exams I will make one that says ‘exams. (consider revising)’
Not perfect, but still a lot better than the first attempt.
More of yesterday’s work.
Yesterday’s work.
WIP. Still needs two firings. Night elf ‘of the crane’ markings. So I’m a geek in my spare time.
Yesterday’s work.
More glaze issues. -_- first cobalt contamination, then clumping, now pinging/crazing. Though I don’t think this particular mask will look any worse for crazing.
This made me laugh when I opened the kiln this morning. I had no idea the colours were going to be THAT vivid (using very old stock left in the cupboards).
