Ghosts & Pumpkins
Jenny Dowd
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Well, here it is, Happy Halloween Weekend!
I’m always a bit late on this, but really, ghosts are for all year. I made a small series of ghost tea cups last year, after Halloween, oops, and sold all of them last month during September sales. So, I made some more… but again a little too late. Oh well, they are some of my favorites…
It was a spooky day in the studio when I was decorating the cups, Sam was working on something with the lights, so I was working with the moody natural light through the window. (Yup, our studio is still very much a work in progress, more on that in a few weeks.)
I draw on the bisque fired porcelain using an underglaze pencil, and then brush on a watered down underglaze, a lot like ink drawing. This batch turned out etherial and definitely more spooky than my last batch!
Sam, on the other hand, starts making pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns in August! This year he used the Raku kiln he built to add a spooky finish to his pumpkins.
Our porch is covered with pumpkins and of course we lit them up one night to see how they glow! Many of the pumpkins that we took to September markets found new porches to live on, and the rest will fill up our porch for Halloween and into November.
We really like the idea of a pumpkin on the porch that does not rot! Plus, it can hang out inside and add a spooky element wherever you like.
Pumpkins and ghost cups are still available on our webshop, and will stay there past Halloween… because spooky can be anytime!