Ceramic house number

This week was rather packed with people at the open access, so I just worked on the new house number for my parents-in-law's new porch. Last week saw the starting point of creating the dish by using a plaster former and laying over a slab of buff clay. This week saw the next part of slightly flattening out the shape. This proved a little tricky and created a slight crack in the rim, which hopefully I've managed to mend.

Then I laid a print-out of the numbers onto the surface and cut through using a scalpel....not an easy task!

I then rolled out a thin rectangle of clay and attached it to the back of the dish and attached the insides of the number 8.

The idea is to after bisque firing, I will flood the inside of the letters with a white glaze after dipping then outside dish area in a deep green glaze. I also need to attache some screw brackets to the reverse of the dish to enable fixing to the wall which will happen next week.

The left overs.