Saturday, February 16, 2013

Birchley's commission Feb 2013




Birthday birdbath using precious old plates Feb 2013


I was given three very old and precious plates with birds on them to smash and arrange in this birdbath commissioned for a friend's birthday.  Breaking the centrepiece plate was SCARY! I turned it upside down and hammered away but the bloomin' thing wouldn't break!!  Finally it broke in three pieces.  Gingerly turning each piece over, I was delighted to find it had broken with each image intact and centred within each piece -- oh happy days!!
Then I broke the other two plates to extract the images to arrange around the edge.