Today In My Studio 03

Greetings Steemians! In my last “today in my studio” post, I showed a few photos of this yantra in its early stages. Now that we have shipped it, I wanted to show the process beginning to end.

This client is my step-uncle’s wife and I like her very much. Half of the pleasure and satisfaction of making this piece was because it was for her. As a point of departure I used inspiration photos she sent me to give me an idea of the color palette and style of Sri Yantra she liked best.

The palette isn’t what I typically find myself working with and I appreciated the challenge of really having to think about color and try out a lot of options to see why certain colors worked and others didn’t.

Below is the process of this yantra start to finish including some flubs:

Drawing:

Working out the colors with a watercolor sketch and glaze chips:

Cutting from slabs of clay:

Once bisque fired, here it is being glazed:

Unloading the glaze firing:

Putting the pieces together:

Trying out a color and not liking it:

And another try, but nope, still not right:

Actually the process of putting this piece together took several weeks because of trying various colors, reglazing and remaking pieces a few times.

Finally, complete!

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