Ceramic Birds

I am obsessed with making ceramic birds. It all started with this guy, for a project based on dreams (This is Buddy, who disturbs my dreaming.)

He was trouble in this form too, let me tell you! First, I painted him with underglaze, then used high fire. yellow salt and "clear" (which was actually nasty gray.) This sucked. I then tried doing a coat of light green lowfire. This came out matte and U-G-L-Y. Then I fired him a fourth (!) time, during which I painted on more lowfire green, with a layer of lowfire clear, and then popped him in the raku kiln. And FINALLY he came out good! Darn it, Buddy!!

Then I made his mini brethren

and then I made my personal totem, a sparrow!

Many more birds are in the kiln at the moment, I'll post them soon. caw caw Cady