Poppies

     This technique requires RG701Sunset Red and RG702 Sunrise Orange. These glazes will not burn out or discolor when used on greenware or fired with a green or black glaze, as will most other red glazes. Do not substitute!

     Clean heavily cast greenware. Trace on pattern using Clay Carbon or Mylar Carbon. Sketch on the irregular area on shoulder of vase.

     Incise around the poppy pattern using a scraffito tool. Incise each poppy petal and the centers, not just the outline. Irregular line on shoulder should be incised also. Dust off chips, or lightly sponge ware.

     Dip a round brush in dishwashing liquid and lightly squeeze out the excess, then fill with Latex Mask and cover the black glaze area to about 1 inch back from where it joins the Textural Glaze. Next apply a generous coat of the masking over the design. Wash brush immediately.

     Use your sponge brush or silk sponge to sponge on three good coats of T102 Primitive Textural glaze to the base, except for the areas where you plan to use glossy black. Allow an hour between coats for drying time. Remove the latex as soon as the shine is gone from the last coat of Primitive.

     Dry the vase overnight, then fire to cone o5.

     Apply 3 coats of RG702 Sunset Red to the poppies. Apply 3 coats of LF817 Christmas Green to the leaves, centers and stems. Alternate between these 2 glazes to allow sufficient drying to both colors.

     Trace or sketch the poppy design over the last coat of glaze as all shading is done on the unfired gloss glaze.

     Mix black single-stroke to brushing consistency on your palette. Condition a #8 square shader with Antiquing Media. This will allow you to paint long, smooth brushstrokes. Shade the poppies, leaves, centers and etc. as indicated on pattern. Wash brush often and re-condition in the antiquing media before loading with the black single-stroke. This will insure clean, crisp shading. Change to your #4 liner brush, condition with the antique media and outline all parts of the design and put in stamens.

     Clean palette and place about a teaspoon of RG703 Sunrise Orange glaze on the palette. load a medium size round brush with the Sunrise and apply to the edges of all blossoms. Roll the brush so the color is very heavy at the edge, and tapers off as it reaches the center of the petal. One coat will be sufficient and if need not appear even, as the orange will blend into the red during firing.

     Roll thinned LF802 Black Patent Gloss Glaze to inside of vase and pour out excess. Apply 3 coats of the black to the neck as shown in photo. 

     Fire to cone 06 in well vented kiln.

The Evelyn Gildner Poppy Pattern is available from Satellite. Send 2.00 and SASE.
All colors are manufactured by Satellite/Unique and the vase is Crest C813.