{"id":221,"date":"2009-09-11T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T11:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atamayka.com\/home\/?p=143"},"modified":"2014-11-09T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T18:30:11","slug":"the-process-of-my-ceramic-illustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/2009\/09\/the-process-of-my-ceramic-illustrations\/","title":{"rendered":"The process of my ceramic illustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"small-text-post\" href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/2009\/09\/the-process-of-my-ceramic-illustrations\/\">English <\/a> <a class=\"small-text-post\" href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/de\/2009\/09\/the-process-of-my-ceramic-illustrations\/\">Deutsch <\/a> <a class=\"small-text-post\" href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/es\/2009\/09\/the-process-of-my-ceramic-illustrations\/\">Espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_0021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-603\" src=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_0021.jpg\" alt=\"illustrated-tiles_0021 by Atamayka\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_0021.jpg 480w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_0021-125x104.jpg 125w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_0021-250x208.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-602\" src=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_1.jpg\" alt=\"illustratated-tiles_1 by Atamayka\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_1.jpg 480w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_1-125x104.jpg 125w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/illustratated-tiles_1-250x208.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve combined my two passions &#8211;<strong>illustration and ceramics<\/strong>. These \u201cpaintings\u201d are directly burnt onto their ceramic frames and will be ready to hang with a nail on the wall. Each one of these ceramic illustrations is <strong>hand-drawn and unique<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I just opened the kiln to take a peek at them; they\u2019re still so hot I can\u2019t get them out yet.<br \/>\nThey make me smile when I see them; I hope they do the same for you once they\u2019re ready.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Making these illustrations on clay<\/strong> is time-consuming, but I love it. Some ceramists call this etching, I always say I\u2019m carving (even though I know it\u2019s wrong), but regardless of which terms to use this is how it goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First I build my clay \u201ccanvas\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I wait a while until the clay dries a bit and gets leather hard<\/li>\n<li>Then I draw -etch \u2013 my motive with a sharp instrument (like in the picture above), generally I use wooden picks<\/li>\n<li>After this I have to wait until it dries really well before I make the first firing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is what I have until now. The <a href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/2009\/11\/ceramic-illustrations-and-color\/\"><strong>next step<\/strong><\/a> in order to finish my ceramic illustrations is the coloring and <strong>glazing<\/strong> before I burn them again in the kiln.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the finished objects!<br \/>\n(2009-11-2, you can find them here: <a href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/2009\/11\/ceramic-illustrations-and-color\/\">&#8220;Ceramic Illustrations and color&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Deutsch Espa\u00f1ol I\u2019ve combined my two passions &#8211;illustration and ceramics. These \u201cpaintings\u201d are directly burnt onto their ceramic frames and will be ready to hang with a nail on the wall. Each one of these ceramic illustrations is hand-drawn and unique. I just opened the kiln to take a peek at them; they\u2019re still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}