on glaze painting

for my final practical lesson i used on glaze pigments to paint on my design, my design is utopia and dystopia and my design reflects this by having happy images on one side and sad images on the other.

one problem i had with this was the roundness of the vase distorted the straight lines, the way i got around this was to put the vase on a spinning wheel so i could rotate the vase freely with out having to stop and risk smudging the design.

i used two types of brushes on my vase, the first was a thick brush which i used to mark out the basic shapes and the second was a very fine brush that i used to paint in the detail.

to remove mistakes i used a small damp sponge with a pointed tip.