Painting on Plates - Old Roses and Dogwood Flowers

A detail of one of the roses on the second plate with this theme. I've used the underglazes with a watercolor style adding in some cobalt stain - The cobalt lines are grey now but will fire deep blue to unify the image. I am anxious to see how the colors hold in the fire. 
The underglazes are by Amaco - and I've had good experience with them in the past.
I am very fond of old roses as well as dogwood flowers. The image are from photos I've taken of my garden  over the past few years. 

As with a lot of my painting the intention is to create an image by working the with patterns and attributes of the image to create the impression of the flowers being more sharply defined than they actually are. As with all my painting I am interested in just what details we need to find in order to see the world around us.

It will be exciting to open the kiln and see just how the colors come out. I darkened some of the colors with cobalt.

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