I thought for a while on what clay I should use to make the envelopes and the answer did not wait for long. Although just the word porcelain made me fear to work with it, I still chose it because I knew that I would learn so much from it. It was a good choice as the porcelain is very delicate.
It was not easy working with it but bit by bit I learned about it and it seemed to like me too. First I wanted to make the pieces and fire them to 1040 degrees, then paint on the imagery with underglazes and then glaze it and fire it again to 1220 degrees. (Is the best because if higher the underglazes would burn out) But thinking about it more I realised that it would be very time consuming. Porcelain doesn’t needs 2 firings if I painted on with porcelain slips. So I made porcelain slips and made few tests which fired to 1220, and they came out very well. I worked in that way for the rest of the project. Although I did make one work were I used underglazes as an experiment. That work was fired twice.
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| Porcelain envelope with a slip design, ready to go into 1220 degree firing. |
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| Other different scale envelopes made out of porcelain and painted with slip |
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| Bisque fired porcelain envelope with underglaze design painted on. |
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