My Hand-painted Pendant Tops
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My Hand-painted Pendant Tops

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Last month at a porcelain art exhibition in Italy, my French friend Bea gave me some blank porcelain pendant tops for free. Usually, she sells them at shows but in that show, she seemed to be down because of her best friend's air plane crash. I tried to encourage her, but it didn't work.

After I returned to Japan from Italy, I started painting on them; one for Bea, one for my Welsh friend, Lynn and one for my best female American friend, Gay, who is also an artist. Since Gay and Lynn love cats, I painted them in a very Japanese style.

The first picture shows the initial stage. I drew some flowers and Japanese traditional patterns.

After firing them in my electric kiln, I added more colors on the flowers, Japanese patterns and covered the white part with color black. It was getting closer to my image and fired them again. The second picture shows this stage.

For the final touches, I added an arabesque pattern with gold to tie everything together and fired them once more.

The last two pictures show the finished pieces. I truly hope my hand-painted pendant top will lift Bea's spirits, and that Gay and Lynn also will love theirs.

Since painting the pendant tops was so much fun, I'd love to order more in different shapes from Bea!

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