Ceramic "glazing/painting"

By this session all the pots and modals we'd made had been baked in the kiln, the next job was to paint and decorate them. There were 2 types of paint that we could use but no together, the first were normal clay paints the we painted all over the pot except the bass ( the paint melts and sticks) these colours were more sturdy when applied to the clay and showed we found that the colours were. Ore vibrate than the other type but only gave use simple effects. 

 

The second type was glass paint mixed with cobalt (blue) copper (red) zinc (green) these were the three colours we had we also had clear paints that gave the clay modal a shiny effect, we also had opac paints which was white these paints where dramatically affect by the kiln type eg gas, and electric which were at our dispasoal, gas gives the pots a more wider spectrum of colours than electric because the baking technique is slightly different from electric which gives you a small spectrum but is cheaper and more sustainable than gas a natural resource which is limited.

The idea behind our clay modals was to show a wide array of styles and understanding of what we were doing me if did two in normal clay paints and the other in glass paints to see the effects that the kilns have in the pots during their baking period and how this effects the pot overall finish.