5 Free Online Ceramics Classes to Learn How to Illustrate Your Pieces

Customize your ceramic pieces with five simple DIY techniques - such as pigmentation and glazing - recommended by experts

Want to turn an everyday ceramic object into a piece that reflects your style? Learn how to do it through different techniques ranging from glazing, to using decals, pigments, decals and stamping.

Join these 5 illustrator artists and art directors who are experts in ceramics in these free classes that will enhance your technique.

To view each class, simply click on its title in red. Enjoy!

Free Class: Illustrate with pigments

In this video, architect, ceramicist, and illustrator Pepa Espinoza shows the different uses you can put ceramic pigments to add color to your creation. Before, she reveals which materials can be used in the piece before firing. Want to learn more?

This class and many others are part of the course she teaches: Ceramic Illustration and Modeling Techniques.

Free Class: Painted cup-character and dish

Lola Giardino, online designer, photographer, ceramist and art director, explains how to maximize your creativity by creating a character, with expressions and life of its own, in your cup and how to make the plate an extension of this same universe.

This video is part of the course Creative Ceramics: Give shape to your ideas with a handmade technique.

Free Class: Decoration by transfers

In this class, which is part of the course Home Glazing for Beginners, expert Paula Casella Biase teaches how to use fabric transfers to decorate ceramics. Transfer papers can be found in pottery stores and give great results.

Free Class: Painting the Vases

Here artist Sandra Apperloo shows painting patterns for two vases. A basic one with polka dots, and a more detailed botanical one. While painting, she talks about the process and gives some helpful tips and tricks.

This class is excerpted from the course Modeling Ceramics with Personality.

Free Class: How to stick the decals

In this video lesson, part of the Ceramic Decal Decorating with Digital Decals course from CHICHINABO INC, you will learn how to easily glue decals to give your pieces an original and personalized design, and tell a story.

These classes will be available until March 15, 2021. If after this time you would like to review them or access the rest of the content, you can do so by registering for each course.

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