Halloween Candy Salad Dish

Designer: Jessie Sterling

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Instructions

  1. Begin with properly fired shelf cone 04 bisque. Moisten a clean sponge and wipe bisque to remove any dust. 
  2. Using pencil, draw a line straight across the middle of the base of the dish, then adding two lines on both sides to make the whole base striped. Extend those lines straight up the sides. Add two more lines on both edges to keep the sections continuing up the side, these sections will be smaller. The entire inside should be striped. 
  3. Using flat brush coat the six stripes in the middle in this order: Glo-Worm, Aqu-ward, Lavendear, Pinkie Swear, Just Peachy, and Sunkissed. Continue the pattern out to the edges, to fill each section. Repeat with three coats of each color. 
  4. Turn the dish over and using the fan brush coat the entire outside and bottom with 3 coats of Black Velvet. 
  5. Fold the pattern over on itself like an accordion fold. There should be six sections. Cut out the patterns of the two ghosts and one bat. You should have six of each. 
  6. Once the Black Velvet is dry, turn over. One by one, wet each ghost and bat and randomly place each one inside the platter. The water should adhere it to the dish. 
  7. Once all the paper shapes are placed, use the fan brush to add three layers of Black Velvet over top of the paper and the entire inside of the dish. Everything should be covered in the Black Velvet. Once this is no longer shiny, use the needle/toothpick to carefully pull up all the paper pieces.  
  8. Use the back end of a brush to add ghost eye dots using the Black Velvet. 
  9. Use the flat brush to add stripes of Snowfall around the outside edge of the bowl. Repeat until you have three layers. 
  10. Do not clear dip. Fire to cone 06.  

Supplies

Form 

  • Flared Rim Serving Dish Bisque Imports 2989 

Colors

  • SC077 Glo-Worm 
  • SC006 Sunkissed 
  • SC096 Aqu-ward 
  • SC103 Lavendear 
  • SC095 Pinkie Swear 
  • SC102 Just Peachy  
  • SG302 Snowfall 
  • FN304 Black Velvet 

Decorating Accessories

  • Fan Brush  
  • Flat Brush 1.5 inch 

Miscellaneous Accessories

  • Sponge
  • Water
  • Plate for glaze
  • Scissors
  • Pattern
  • Pencil
  • Toothpick

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