Verdigris Frog Planter


Doc Holliday Molds and Color
Technique by Elsa Riedel

  1. Carefully clean greenware re-carving the detail where necessary.
  2. Fire to properly fired witness cone 04.
  3. Glaze the inside with color of your choice.
  4. Fire to properly fired witness cone 06/05.
  5. Basecoat with Roughcut Bronze.
  6. Load a flat shader with Shadow Green and wetbrush the entire surface.
  7. Thin Turquoise to a wash consistency.
  8. Thin Shadow Green to a wash consistency.
  9. Apply the colors to the frog with the tip of a large round brush allowing them to run.
  10. Dampen an old bristle brush with Antique-It.
  11. Pick up some whiting(purchased at the hardware store) on the damp brush and apply randomly to the frog.
  12. When dry, brush off any excess whiting that did not stick.

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