chris beloni on sun 17 apr 05
I am making a vase for a special friends birthday, and want her teenage
daugher to decorate it with acrylic paints. I thought I would use a slip
over speckled brown clay to give her a field to paint on , glaze the
interior and fire to cone 6, then let her paint a family portrait with
acrylics. Does anyone think this will work?
jesse hull on sun 17 apr 05
Try a product called "Porcel-ain" (I think that's what
it's called...). It's manufactured in France and sold
in hobby and fabric stores, etc. It's acrylic based,
with lots of color options, and bakes on at 300deg F.
I've only used it once for fun, but it doesn't peel or
crack off once it's "fired".
~jessehull.
Deeclay@AOL.COM on sun 17 apr 05
Your idea will work fine. I do that all the time for nieces and nephews with
my masks. I usually glaze the lips red and let them go to town with the
acrylics. Even sold a few to friends for their kids to do for presents. Best
of both worlds.
Have fun.
Diane in Sunny (rainy tonight) Miami
dkat on sun 17 apr 05
I know a sculpture that wasn't interested in learning to glaze and simply painted his pieces with acrylics. They look quite nice. He uses sculpture clays and only fires to cone 06 but I can't imagine it not working for cone 6. I just wouldn't get it wet though. I would not know what would happen but it seems that you would get peeling.
----- Original Message -----
From: chris beloni
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:11 PM
Subject: acrylic painting on Cone 6 pots
I am making a vase for a special friends birthday, and want her teenage
daugher to decorate it with acrylic paints. I thought I would use a slip
over speckled brown clay to give her a field to paint on , glaze the
interior and fire to cone 6, then let her paint a family portrait with
acrylics. Does anyone think this will work?
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Cate Loveland on sun 17 apr 05
Painting on pots isn't very tricky, but I always put several coats of gesso
on to prepare the ground to receive paint. My cone 04 pots are still porous
enough to soak up the gesso and hold the paint. I'm not sure about a vitreous
surface. You might have to go to porcelana type paints which are designed to
go on glassy surfaces.
Hope this helps...
Cate in AZ
Jeanette Harris on sun 17 apr 05
>I am making a vase for a special friends birthday, and want her teenage
>daugher to decorate it with acrylic paints. I thought I would use a slip
>over speckled brown clay to give her a field to paint on , glaze the
>interior and fire to cone 6, then let her paint a family portrait with
>acrylics. Does anyone think this will work?
I would suggest that you glaze fire the piece with maybe the slip and
clear glaze or an opaque white glaze, then get the special overpaint
called Pebeo that can be applied to ceramics and set by putting into
a kiln at 300 degrees for 30 minutes.
You can find it from Dick Blick
http://www.dickblick.com/zz029/08/products.asp?param=0&ig_id=232 or
google Pebeo.
--
Jeanette Harris
Poulsbo WA
Potter's Council member
Snail Scott on sun 17 apr 05
At 02:11 PM 4/17/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>...I thought I would use a slip...to give her a field to paint on , glaze the
>interior and fire to cone 6, then let her paint a family portrait with
>acrylics. Does anyone think this will work?
If the clay itself is properly vitrified, it
should work fine.
-Snail
Kate Johnson on mon 18 apr 05
> Try a product called "Porcel-ain" (I think that's what
> it's called...). It's manufactured in France and sold
> in hobby and fabric stores, etc. It's acrylic based,
> with lots of color options, and bakes on at 300deg F.
> I've only used it once for fun, but it doesn't peel or
> crack off once it's "fired".
Actually, it's Pebeo Porcelaine, and here's a bit of shameless
self-promotion--I have a batch of it for sale on eBay, just relisted. It's
item # 8186273046. Heckuva deal starting at $15--it includes an
instructional video and a whole BATCH of paints, a few of them opened.
I bought it to try on tiny oval porcelain blanks, on the portrait miniatures
I paint, but I wasn't able to get quite the detail I like for those. I'm
clearing stuff out, here, so getting rid of things I'm not actively using
before the floor joists collapse.
This would be a fantastic buy for anyone wanting to try it on their own
pottery (or any other china as far as that goes--I even did one graniteware
plate that was a lot of fun.)
Best--
Kate Johnson
http://www.cathyjohnson.info/
Art, History, Nature and More at Cathy Johnson's Cafepress--
http://www.cafepress.com/cathy_johnson/
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Elizabeth Priddy on mon 18 apr 05
I have found that watercolor works well and that loose acrylics work well, but
thick acrylics look like you coated it in plastic.
A spray poly coating will peel if the piece is not vitrified because it will absorb atmospheric
moisture and cause the surface to weaken from the inside.
watercolor "breathes" and does not do this.
EP
dkat wrote:
I know a sculpture that wasn't interested in learning to glaze and simply painted his pieces with acrylics. They look quite nice.
Elizabeth Priddy
252-504-2622
1273 Hwy 101
Beaufort, NC 28516
http://www.elizabethpriddy.com
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Snail Scott on tue 19 apr 05
At 06:24 PM 4/17/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>I know a sculpture that wasn't interested in learning to glaze and simply
painted his pieces with acrylics. They look quite nice. He uses sculpture
clays and only fires to cone 06 but I can't imagine it not working for cone
6. I just wouldn't get it wet though. I would not know what would happen
but it seems that you would get peeling.
Not really. It's pretty durable once the
paint film has properly dried. You can
scrub it with a wet sponge, but abrasives
would harm it, and I wouldn't soak it.
Those 'Porcelaine' paints are nifty and
more durable, but not as controllable or
versatile as standard acrylics.
-Snail
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