The Fiske Free Library
These were from a drawing that I did of the library in Claremont. The first is the drawing, the second is from a screen print made by using a photographic technique transposing the drawing to the silkscreen. I used the process to glaze many familiar buildings on ceramic items.
Alas, the customers in the shops where my glazed ceramics were on consignment wanted things in color, which I never got around to learning to do. And even though I sold about ten percent of the stock in stores a month, that wasn't good enough for the merchants and besides, most of them went out of business during the recession of 2000 anyway.
The polyurethane decal is printed with special ink containing crushed glass and then applied to the ceramic piece already glazed and then re-fired at low temperature of about one thousand degrees and the design then becomes part of the glaze. The technique, I understand was developed way back in the 19th century, but then they used paper apparently, instead of the polyurethane decal. The polyurethane burns up the moment the kiln gets hot enough leaving only a very feint trace where the decal has been cut.
We lost all these things when we had to move. Rick of Nanna's second hand shop gave me three hundred bucks for everything from personal belongings to the merchandise that didn't sell that we were going to have to leave behind when we moved to California. We could only fit what we could get into the rental truck and even that was a bit to much. So if you want one of the ceramics maybe he still has some left. I think he's on the web. His shop is somewhere on Pleasant Street in Claremont (New Hampshire).
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