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Comment by Carl Ray Crutchfield on February 8, 2014 at 5:52am

Denice, the "sponge" I used is made from a 12x12x2 inch sheet of foam that I bought from a fabric store.  I believe it is used to make cushions.  It is soft, with a very smooth surface and extremely small cells.   I drew my pattern on it with a sharpie and used a pair of very small scissors to cut the foam to make the stamp.  I made the stamp in two halves so I could easily stamp different colors on the two sides of the leaf and leave a space between for trailing a dark green glaze to represent the stems.  The bowl was first glazed with a white gloss and then before it was completely dry I stamped the leaves using red and yellow glaze.  I find if you wait too long before doing the glaze on glaze the second glaze drys and falls off the glaze underneath.  Conversely, if you do the glaze on glaze too soon it mixes with and muddies the glaze underneath.  I also used the edge of one stamp with a light green glaze along the edge of the yellow because the yellow doesn't show up well against the white background.  hope all this is clear and helps.  -carl

Comment by Carl Ray Crutchfield on February 7, 2014 at 5:25pm

thanks for the encouragement, Robert.

Comment by Robert Coyle on February 7, 2014 at 3:39pm

Love your art Carl... Shows what you can do at cone 6

Comment by Denice E. Demuth on February 7, 2014 at 12:16pm

I wondered if you had used some sort of stencil, was it a thick underglaze that you used on top of the white with the foam cut outs.  I am working on a large mural and it will be glazed differently in areas.  I was thinking about doing something like this with a sponge.  The mural has a  tile foreground that  needs a rustic look.  Of course I will test.test and test.   Denice

Comment by Carl Ray Crutchfield on February 7, 2014 at 11:18am

thanks, Denise, I was pleased with the results.  have been using this same red and yellow with brush work, but really like how they came out using cut foam shapes.

Comment by Denice E. Demuth on February 7, 2014 at 7:07am

Lovely makes me feel springy and happy.   Denice