We have talked on several occasions about pricing your wares at selling venues and also how to present your wares for maximum appeal. Check through past issues of CERAKANVAS, BLUEPRINT and MATRIX for these articles. But this is about what's HOT.One of today's hottest artist's is Jim Shore. His style is very imitable for ceramicists. Of course it will work best if you cast your own greenware. Shore uses a country quilt approach to all of his pieces. i would suggest going to your local giftware shop or department store, and spending some time examining and fondling his pieces. THEY ARE NOT CERAMIC. They are made of cast resin, but don't let that concept sway you. His work is non-fired finish final look. You could use matte with underglazes, but I believe you will have far better results with acrylics. If you are working with greenware it is most easy to adapt a carved quilt look to the piece. If you are not familiar with quilt block patterns just go to a used book store and pick up a book for a little of nothing that will usually have thousands of patterns. You can also just look on line.
Finally I would recommend putting your piece on a base and adding the quilting to the base. You might say now I wont do this because everyone else will. A lot will think about it, a lot less will explore the possibility and only a very few will implement it. Good Luck. If you do try this report back, with pictures of your pieces of how it did.
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