These are six large platters I decorated and glazed today. They will be going into the wood kiln for the fall firing next month.
The decoration is a combination of traditional Karatsu and contemporary with motifs of shrimp, dragonfly, reeds, horsetails, nets, waves, and chains.
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Very pretty. You even decorate the outside. Iron oxide I suppose? Do you use a brush ?
Hi, yes, deer tail brushes with iron pigment derived from an iron rich sedimentary strata exposed on a mountain near my studio.
You are the first person I know who wins his iron ore from the earth :) I hope you did not scare a deer to make the brush?