Black clay bowl on the wheel
Bowl today, after being trimmed, and white slip added to the interior. Then teal coloured eggs and grass green for moss were painted on.
Light and chocolate brown streaks added to the roughly painted nest.
Bird’s nest bowl: thrown in black clay with white slip,, underglaze colours and sgraffito.

 

Today I’ve decorated a bowl to represent a bird’s nest. In the depth of winter, I can’t wait for spring, lighter evenings, warmer weather and the liquid song of the Blackbird.

I threw this black clay bowl yesterday, and turned it to produce a deep footring today. (The sharp-eyed will notice that it is thicker at one side than another, because I need throwing practice.) I added white slip to the interior, and when that was dry I added underglaze colours in teal for the eggs, grass green to represent moss lining the nest, chocolate and light brown for twigs. I added line detail with sgraffito, and added speckles to the blackbird eggs with chocolate underglaze. It needs a little fettling when it is drier, to remove the burrs produced by the sgraffito, and then it will be finished and ready for firing.

I quite like the result. If it fires successfully, I might make some more for Easter.