After a couple of months of wheel throwing and slip casting, I am back behind the wheel. China Painting is almost like riding a bike, but you have to find your way back to it every time you start again. Sometimes the pigments are grainy and don’t mix as well as the last time, the…
ANNOUNCING THE PANTONE COLOR OF THE YEAR 2019: Source: https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year/color-of-the-year-2019
I have been thinking about retiring this cup shape for a while now, but every time I get back to it the decorations get more elaborate and I get more inspired by its form. I adjusted this cup to have a “real” foot and a rim and decided to revamp it again and again and…
My china-painting techniques allow me to paint the bottom of my pieces. I recently figured this out and have been painting avidly. Here are some examples of “feet” or “bottoms”:
Kintsugi (金継ぎ, きんつぎ, “golden joinery”), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い, きんつくろい, “golden repair”), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object,…
Porcelain making in Japan began 400 years ago. It is said to have started in 1616 in Arita, a town on the southern island of Kyushu near Nagasaki. One of the most famous of Japanese porcelain styles is Kakiemon.
Hungary has a long tradition of porcelain-making, which flourished during the mid-nineteenth century and continues to present day. Herend Porcelain The Herend Porcelain Manufactory (Hungarian: Herendi Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt.) specializing in luxury hand painted and gilded porcelain, was founded in 1826 by Vince Stingl with a focus on earthenware pottery making. He went bankrupt later on and…
[see the original article here] Baroque is one of those words whose meaning changes slightly depending on context and perspective—it could refer to a specific or general time period or a style of art, architecture, music, or other creative endeavor. Possibly derived from a Portuguese word for a misshapen pearl, it has a history that…
I had the pleasure to spend an afternoon with the ceramics students at Fort Hays State University and teach them some of my gold and decal application procedures. We got some great results with image transfers and line decorations in gold. At the end of the workshop we loaded two kilns with our gold luster…
After applying #gold #luster and #chinapaint the last step is to apply decals on ceramic. Here I am using a Vintage decal with #blue and gold #flowers from England. —-> @potsinaction has been taken over by @louieseven.0 hosting a week of #piadecals – be sure to follow along on INSTAGRAM and tag your pots in…
Welcome to the new edition of Ogee Magazine Fashion, design, arts, hotels, restaurants, porcelain, perfumes; Pierre Cardin, more than any other designer, was an expert in linking his name and style to a legendary well-known brand which was applied to many items and many domains. Enjoy the winter exploring the splendour of futuristic and surprising…
Mapping out the surface on a ceramic budvase from Melanie Sherman on Vimeo. This is part of a series of videos about including china paint techniques, applying gold luster and decals.