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| Porcelain Seahorse £20.00 |
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| Porcelain Seahorse Brooch, £20.00 |
Already selling like hot cakes at Potters, my unique, ceramic seahorses have now been making their Pinterest appearances!
Rightly so, 'cos they are unique, highly detailed, a joy to wear, made entirely by hand, by me from scratch. Thank you all kind people who have pinned my stuff on their Pinterest.
Here's how I make them:
1.) I make 3 moulds for them, to get the bas-relief effect. The mould making takes 2-3 days as the clay needs to dry and bisque fired in the kiln!
2.) When the "negative" mould is ready, I press porcelain clay into bisque mould, take them out of the mould and put holes (if it's a pendant).
3.) Then I air dry the pieces which takes 2-3 days, and fettle all the rough edges by holding the pieces very gently as the dry clay is very crumbly! Any uneven (not sharp) edges you see in photos here are left so for artistic effect. The back of the pieces are smooth.
4.) Then I bisque fire them in the kiln.
5.) I put oxides on cooled down, bisque fired pieces and fire them the second time, to 1240 centigrade (for the porcelain). Oxides are burnt during the kiln firing and won't come off or smudge on your clothes.
6.) The finishing touch is a silver plated wire through the hole for the chain which I attached by hand.
Finally I attach the 16in. long silvertone snake chain and put the little magical seahorse in its box!
For all that work, and a porcelain (NOT Fimo, or plastic clay) one of a kind statement piece £20.00? May be I should increase the price it a bit more!
