As you know, recently I've been experimenting with adding animal skulls to my mugs. For the most part I've been using modern animals and prehistoric mammals, but for this latest batch, I decided to revisit one of my childhood passions: dinosaurs.
During a recent trip to a natural history museum, I sketched several dinosaur skulls. Let's take a look:
This is an example of a dimetrodon skull. The dimetrodon is not actually a true dinosaur, as it went extinct about 40 million before the first dinosaurs evolved. It's actually more closely related to mammals, though it's not a direct ancestor either. The dimetrodon is best known its massive back sail, which you can see in the picture below.
Once I drew the skulls and had the mugs fired, I went through the usual glazing process, starting with applying the wax resist...
...then dipping them in the glazes and getting them fired a second time.
During a recent trip to a natural history museum, I sketched several dinosaur skulls. Let's take a look:
This handsome fellow belongs to the hadrosaurids, a family of duck-billed dinosaurs. These were common herbivores during the Cretaceous periods. The dinosaur below is an example of a hadrosaur type.
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| Image courtesy of http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130701230203/dinosaurs/images/c/ca/Hadrosaurus-1.jpg |
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| Image courtesy of https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Dimetrodon_grandis.jpg |
Once I drew the skulls and had the mugs fired, I went through the usual glazing process, starting with applying the wax resist...
...then dipping them in the glazes and getting them fired a second time.
Here are the final versions:
I'd definitely like to do more of these, and use an array of not only dinosaur skulls, but skeletons as well. After all, who doesn't like dinosaurs?
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