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I'm taking it slow with this one. Ears on now, next week it's arms, engobe and textures time.

Additional details!

The body is the right shape and hollowed out, and I added a tail. Feet are rough and arms+ears entirely missing 😂

A choir of creatures!

Little bird enjoying summer

I bought a Dremel today! Now I can sand down any uncomfortable edges on my maker's mark and sharp glaze drips won't be a problem

Pigeons

This guy will end up holding a pot, as is traditional, and will be coloured exactly like my MIL's boy.

Black clay, white engobe, Mayco Olive Float, a face and a cute hoya to plant in it. Bonus earlier creature.

Let the glazing begin 😄

A few dabs of heatproof ceramic glue and they'll be ready for glazing.

There are limbs and a tail prepped but they need some more solidity before attachment makes any sense

12kg black stoneware clay

Black clay with white engobe. I'll add glaze and/or an oxide wash to the face and peets

The clay fires to a nice black so the unglazed interior should make for a good contrast!