How To Make A Ceramic Piece With Lots Of Color

An underglaze is a ceramic glaze that is applied to greenware.

How to make a ceramic piece with lots of color.

She gets her color from ceramic pigments mixed with a clay slip which she makes from a commercial clay body. With ceramic pigments you can color the clay color the glazes or color both. All glazes and clays have different properties. So bear this in mind before you start.

Dipping your glazes or brushing them on. Glazing can make or break a pot so it s great to spend a bit of time planning the exact look feel and color of what you want to achieve. Sand the tile gently. Ceramic pigments are easy to use and the simplest way to introduce a wide range of color into your work.

Apply the paint using brushes sponges or other techniques and then let it air dry according to the directions on the paint. By bill jones commercially prepared ceramic pigments commonly referred to as ceramic stains expand the potter s palette with infinite color options. There are a few types of glazes that are used on ceramics. Lana wilson s work is mostly black and white with bits of vibrant color splashed about.

Select a paint that is safe for use on clay and that doesn t require firing in a kiln since air dry clay can t withstand high temperatures. She explains how to mix the slip how much ceramic pigment to add for each color and how to use the glaze on a finished piece. Paint air dry clay with an acrylic or latex paint if you want to add color. Greenware is an unfired piece of ceramic.