Ceramic Bisque Painting Tips

Discover the exciting hobby of painting and decorating ceramic bisque.

Ceramic bisque painting tips.

Stains are applied to a bisque piece of ceramic. The term applies to all fired clay objects or the process be they useful such as tiles bathtubs dish ware electrical insulators or. While underglaze decoration can be done at the greenware or bisque stage i paint when pots are bisqued because i like painting bisque fired clay i hold my piece with a cotton knit cloth so i don t transfer any oils from my hand onto the pot. Not only does it add a safe sealed coating to your bisque fired wares making it waterproof and food safe it also brings your work to life with any color you wish to create.

From the greek word keramos meaning pottery potter s clay or a potter. Ceramic stains can be used to mimic the look and effects of the most wonderful brush and ink paintings. A very large site about ceramic bisque supplies and decorative painting with lots of nice pictures. Once the stain has been applied over the glaze or paint it is then wiped down so the stain remains in the crevices to add depth.

Find your favorite subject theme in ceramic bisque dolls carousel chess sets fish birds cats fantasy dragons dishes gargoyles christmas and many others. It has to be fired before painting you do not have to glaze it and fire again. You are purchasing an unfinished ready to paint piece of ceramic pottery be sure to look for painting techniques on the details page when you see a finished sample. Choose the finish you want matte gloss satin effect lacquered etc.

This is a piece of ceramic that has been fired in a kiln. It gives strength to dried clay called greenware and it is ready to be painted or glazed. The unfired bisque is too soft to work with. Glazing your ceramics serves several purposes.

All of our ceramic bisque is fired to a cone 04 and is un decorated and ready to paint. You must start with prefired ceramics. The possibilities of glazing are endless and the techniques and patterns you can create with them have no limit. Acrylic paint in different colors.

Potters and pottery painters borrow techniques from their screen and scroll painting cousins. It is light tan in color and it is the kind of ceramic that do it yourself pottery decorating stores carry. You can use acrylic paint on bisqueware or you can paint it with an underglaze to fire in a kiln again. A stain is applied to a piece of ceramic that has been fired with a glaze or acrylic paint that has been applied.

Take a look at all you can create. You can just paint and spray it with a clear coat of finish. This in fact is the way in which the very famous blue and white chinese porcelain pottery paintings and designs came into existence. All of our ceramic bisque is unpainted.

Painting bisque fired clay with underglaze.