Bisque set of three!

This bisque set has been sitting in my cupboard for years, waiting to be painted. Last week I suddenly had an idea of what to paint on it ........ I wanted to paint it as a set, and not as 3 individual items with different designs. There is enamel work on a few of the flowers, and the white penwork around the rim of each of the 3 pieces is done to look like lace.

Bisque Egg

This bisque egg has been painted for an exchange with someone who lives on the other side of the world from me. I sure hope she likes it, for I sure enjoyed painting it for her!
The egg is 3" long and was poured by my friend Bev Stone who lives in Seattle, U.S.A.

Under the egg I have written the name of the recipient, together with the date . . . . and my name as the artist.

Bisque egg

This is the top of the egg!

4" oval pansy dish

I painted this little dish for a sales table. Our club is taking part of an art and craft day to be held in the centre of our city . . . . . roads will be closed during the day and stalls will be set up with space for walking traffic only. I edged the little dish with blue, applying it with my finger the same way I apply gold around the edge of a plate.

Actually, I quite like the blue edge!

A border of lustre over acid etch

With this border, I marked off the squares and then lightly sponged acid etch on alternative spaces. After it was fired I sponged lustre over the whole border and fired again. On the last fire I penned grey paint to make the squares more pronounced.

More Roses!

I love the yellow sunshine behind these roses, and the way it reflects on some of the petals. The border is lustre (with a rim of gold), over penned acid etch.

Ellie's Box

This is the birth box I painted for Ellie, who is now just over 3 months old and (of course) beautiful.
Her birth record is on the bottom of the box, and my name is inside the lid.
One very good thing about recording history information on porcelain, is that it will last for ever. It will never fade or wear out, and it will even survive a fire . Of course it could break but then it could be mended also.
I wonder what it will look like, and where it will be in a hundred years time?