Wow, That Was Fast

[dotplaid]

Went to the pottery shop Color Me Mine this weekend for my mostly-annual-paint-a-thing-on-my-birthday celebration. I had, some years ago, painted a chopstick bowl (their term not mine) in a very zen fashion - one small strip of blue on the outside and one small strip of black on the inside - but it broke in my last apartment. This year I decided to

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[dotplaid]

¾. Thanks! I spent a few hours tracking down a good, open source gaelic font then threw some interesting words into a translator. As you can see from the first pic the bowl, as sold, is totally blank. The bottom red line on the finished bowl is the "above here thar be gluttony" line; the top red line was cuz I was done painting but didn't want to turn it in just yet. =]

sin(90). The inside lines, the black skinny ones, are just pencil markings. I used wee squares to line up my letters - the graphite burns off easily enough in the kiln. I think pencil lead burns at about the same temperature as hair, so no cleaning is involved. If you notice in the first picture, the tile at 11 o'clock in the background: they're a bunch of numbered squares. You "order" a bunch of colors based on what shade you want after your item is fired. It's really a very interesting process. Go wander!

e. It wasn't until last night, during my first test-drive, that I realized that my old bowl was superior in this regard; the hole's a bit big. The "old hole" was

[dotplaid]

cos(0). I totally MacGyvered it. Holding my hand very steady, and supporting only my elbow, I traced some horizontal circles inside the bowl. I then rested a plastic ruler (grabbed from a community jar) on top of the bowl and centered it over two principal meridians, 90° apart. One created the upper and lower boundaries for the lettering and the other helped determine the letters. I ran two skinny pieces of tape along either side of the ruler, creating two slits that I could see through. Centering my eye-line just so, looking through those spaces, I made little ticks at semi-regular intervals then freehand-connected the dots to form lines. Move the ruler and repeat. Violin!

As for the other colorers: dunno. I foolishly wandered in on Friday night, anxious to get started and spent a goodly amount of time trying to find a way to squeeze aigneadh into the rim as well - all of the letters would have been excruciatingly small if I'd forced it