My Hummingbird Bowl

[liralen]

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Originally uploaded by Liralen Li.

This is the hummingbird bowl, post-firing. Yay!! It, along with the froggy bowl, was in the auction, and I got to take a picture of it.

The shading on the bird turned out better than I'd hoped. With the turquoise on the shoulders and head as well as the red on the breast showing quite clearly. The white dots I'd put on in a faint hope that they'd show up on the breast actually did! Woohoo! The greys worked out really well on the tail and base of the wing, and I really liked how the flowers turned out. The brush markings for the petals were more than I'd hoped for with the single coat of glaze.

I'm very happy with how it turned out and I learned a lot from it, too. I should have left the flowers at the top just floating without the stalk in the background. Next time I'll remember that. I'll also remember that I can do better with a brush than I can with the "mosquito" bottles for 'writing thin lines'. The beak and eye isn't what I wanted, really, but it's what I got. Hee.

The outside of the bowl is on my flickr site, but it's fuzzy. The frogs with it's auction sheet is there too.

Lunch was okay. I bid on a few bowls. We found both of Jet's bowls on the tables. I have pictures of Jet's planet bowl, post-firing, on flickr.

I'm pretty happy with being in the auction twice again. *grin*

Comments

[incandescens]

That's absolutely gorgeous. Well done!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tagryn]

Very nice work!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*beam* Thanks!

[marith.livejournal.com]

That came out quite awesomely! Thank you for posting pictures! *admires*

[liralen.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! I'm glad you like it.

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

That's lovely!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

Ooo, pretty! Does your family have dishes they've decorated? I know there are pottery places that will let people do that. I can just picture a shelf with each person's plate and cup and bowl sitting in one of those brackets that lets you see the patterns on each.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

We do! We even had all the grandparents do sandwich plates for us when we were down on those, so we have a whole collection of very unique plates. *grin* It was a lot of fun to see how each grandparent's personalities came out on the dishes.

Plus we now have two of Jet's bowls! Which we didn't get before, so that's all to the plus.

[kjc007.livejournal.com]

WOW that's pretty! You do really good work, with what looks like simple strokes evoking a lot more.

(Catching up & the pic caught my eye...)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!

It was funny... at the auction two members of our church were standing over it and one lady was bidding on it when the male member said, "It's funny how it's just daubs of paint, just like what everyone else was doing, but she makes those bits of paint really LOOK like something."

And it kind of struck me as when I'm actually painting the piece I'm kind of, "Man, it's just bits of paint... will it actually look like the thing I *want* it to look like? Probably not... it's just strokes of paint..." *giggles*

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Wow, that bowl is really lovely. All your posting about these has made me want to start going to Petroglyph to paint some stuff, I tell ya. ^_^

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Cool! I love doing it. I should probably do more pieces we get to keep, but I keep thinking I'm not very good at it, yet, and making so many mistakes I shouldn't be keeping them, yet. *giggles* Silly, no?