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Offline blackdave

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Decorated Clay Pipe
« on: July 31, 2018, 06:48:10 PM »
While looking through back posts of a well known page that features contemporary artists doing traditional work based on historical examples, I came across the work of Ra Sharek Gadd having decorated a couple of clay pipes. Doing a little background research, it would appear that early pipes were decorated first by sailors based on tattoo patterns they saw on Pacific voyages and later explorers drew patterns based on Native peoples geometric patterns on pottery. I made an attempt to duplicate an effort. As always, I appreciate the opportunity to share with the community. I remain your humble servant, Just Dave.



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Re: Decorated Clay Pipe
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2018, 07:26:24 PM »
Interesting.  :)
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Re: Decorated Clay Pipe
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2018, 11:50:21 PM »
Just Dave, that is beautiful and striking work!  Almost makes me wish I was still a pipe smoker!
Thanks for showing it to us, and for the history of decorating things.  Truly looks Samoan.
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Re: Decorated Clay Pipe
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2018, 12:53:59 AM »
Dave,
Is your artwork fired in a kiln or just drawn on with a magic marker?  Just curious.
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Re: Decorated Clay Pipe
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2018, 02:17:40 AM »
Love the old pipes,,...thanks for posting.
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Re: Decorated Clay Pipe
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2018, 06:29:16 PM »
He used a sharpie marker. You can see the purple-black reflection of the sharpie color in one of the pictures.
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Re: Decorated Clay Pipe
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2018, 06:33:53 PM »
If decorated in authentic 18th C scrimshaw scratching and ink pigment, it would be pretty neat... But I doubt the inking would survive the usual cleaning method of clay pipes-- putting them in a fire til they glow red? Not sure about that though.

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Re: Decorated Clay Pipe
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2018, 08:28:21 PM »
The reason I asked is because he could very well have painted it on with ceramic media as used to decorate pottery and then fired it.
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