A Second Rectangle

I began work on a companion plate planning the image to be the same stripes on one end  and a starfish on the other end.  The stripe pattern looks very similar; four French vanilla and four brown topaz, alternating stripes. 

Stripe end of starfish rectangle.

For the starfish, I started by firing a variety of sizes of French vanilla squares.  Once fired, small pieces have rounded corners, and very small pieces actually look like dots (the candy that used to come on big strips of paper,) or buttons. 

Stripe end of sand dollar rectangle.

I placed a drawn pattern underneath the clear brown topaz square of glass, and began assembling the star shape.  In this early stage, the roundish blobs resembled a starfish in the same crude was the cut stringers and ovals resembled a sand dollar.