Mishima -- Stage 2

 

Bisque Fire. The engobe (deep blue) now fired into the cut lines 

Next steps: Glaze surfaces, fire. 

Steps prior:

Below, pre-fire, at leather hard stage, apply the engobe focusing on the cut  areas, allowing to seep into the grooves, and then reapplying until sure the slits are filled flush to main surface.

Then use care with a scrapping tool and a sponge, remove the excess engobe. I discovered how incompletely I did that when it emerged from the kiln with lots of splotches outside the cut lines (last image here). Cleaned that up fine grain sandpaper.  

After it came out of kiln...smudge lines to clean up with sandpaper (keep surface wet, wear a mask).