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Elizabethan and Jacobean Embroideries Prints and Weaves
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Colour predictions 2014 from WGSN |
Clay Research Feb 2014
Ceramics and Print by Paul Scott 1994
(738.15.SOC) IBSN 0-7136-3746-3
Inlay
Red clay painted inlay to reveal white clay patterns 13th-16th C
Stamp clay with pattern
Biscuit fire clay
Apply under glaze
When dry scape surface back to reveal stamped area
Screen-printing
Mix ceramic pigment with light sensitive emulsion
Print it dry it expose it
Print gum Arabic mixed with Diazo sensitizer
Expose it
Dust with ceramic pigment
Relief printing (to impress)
Try solar plate pressed into leather hard clay
Biscuit fire
Ceramic pigment painted into indented surface and excess wiped away
Carve a lino
Inks made by mix of ceramic pigment (mix cobalt and copper oxides and copperplate oil)
Roller out thin layer of ink
Roll onto lino
Transfer onto clay slabs
Fire and glaze with matt stoneware glaze
Intaglio (below the surface)
Dry point onto Perspex
Ink with oxides or under glaze mixed with copperplate oil
Use ceramic pigment transfer onto pottery tissue (florist paper)
Rub pottery tissue onto bisque fire clay to transfer image
Fire
Mono printing
Paint onto sheet of glass with oxide or underglaze mixed with water
When dry tape a sheet of pottery tissue onto glass and draw onto the paper with soft pencils
Lift off and place on top of damp clay
Rub tissue to transfer image onto the clay
Fire
Screen print straight onto clay or soft porcelain
43T mesh bold shapes
90t mesh half tones
1 part medium system 3
2 parts ceramic pigments
Direct photo emulsion
1 part ceramic pigment
2parts water
2 parts gum Arabic
2 parts ammonium dichromate
Paint onto fried glazed tile
When dry expose to uv using and acetate positive for 10mins
Wash out and re fire @680°c
Liquid light silverprint emulsions
Prime biscuit fired clay with water based acrylic or polyurethane varnish
Paint on emulsion
Expose to light
Develop
Wash for 30 mins under running water
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Fired black clay |
The design is impressed into black clay,and then bisque fired.
Overpaint with porcelain slip, let dry
Scrape back with a metal kidney
and fire the red clay will turn black
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This is the same as above but a wet sponge was used to take off the excess porcelain slip |
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Specialist Pigments |
Sublimation print on brushed gold aluminium |
Acrylic pigments screen printed onto aluminium |
A sublimation print has been added to this gold aluminium . this has then had an acrylic screen print placed on top. it creates a great matt and shiny contrast |
- Wood
2mm Ply wood has a sublimation print printed on it The wood was then laser cut This is the positive image |
2mm Ply wood has a sublimation print printed on it The wood was then laser cut This is the negative image |
- Perspex / Acrylic
Samples of 2 and 3mm Acrylic that i got for free by writing to the company |
Sublimated printed 2mm window Acrylic laser cut Negative shape |
Sublimated printed 2mm window Acrylic laser cut Positive shape |