Owl eyes...On the original owl I got a glossy deep black with a good glaze that is apparently so temp specific that I only achieved it one more time, despite trying repeatedly. So I thought ok...black fingernail polish would achieve the same results with a topping of crystal clear glaze. It is an acryic which seems to me perverse to do to clay, even tho i have been told repeatedly by teachers that it is ok to paint them. It tried a couple other ideas, one was to run the eyes through teh gas kiln and get a glazed black, but it is not the deep wet of the acrylic or the black glaze. So does it matter? Which would you prefer if you were getting a rocking owl. There is a deep shadow on the one owl, it is not black from anything else above that eye.
original owl
experiments
and big bowl came out nice I think
quail
original owl
experiments
and big bowl came out nice I think
quail