Not each firing is successful, and not all hard work gets a rightly earned reward.
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Wet Cleaning
Wet cleaning a soft-fired porcelain doll head. It's as fragile as an egg shell in this stage.
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Cleaning porclain doll parts during a snowstorm
Read MoreWhite Peacock Queen
Peacock Engraving Tattoo 1st layer down, 7 more to go! The dark is my base, and now I’m gonna start making it look real pretty! For my next firing layer I’m painting the skin tone in 2 shades of Lotus and Peaches, and introducing white highlights to the feathers to make the bird POP! She is a White Peacock Queen!
Work on the new doll continues
At this stage of the process the porcelain is in a very fragile and soft state called Bisque
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