Dyed Ceramics: Coloring Ceramic Paste

Overview

“Now that we have our colored chamotte, we are going to learn how to use it with our ceramic pastes.”

In this video lesson Paula Casella Biase addresses the topic: Using dyed chamotte, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dyed Ceramics: Coloring Ceramic Paste. Learn to create unique colors for your pieces by dyeing ceramic pastes and engobes using oxides and pigments.

Partial transcription of the video

“Using Dyed Chamotte Hi. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to use the chamotte that we previously dyed. We’re going to do it two different ways. First, we’ll sprinkle it over the tile, go over it with the roller, and then blend it into the clay and knead it. This is because, in reality, the chamotte is blended into the clay, when we buy it on the market, it’s already evenly distributed throughout the paste. So that would be the ideal situation. Why are we going to sprinkle it on? Because we don’t have the chamotte already dyed in a traditional way. Our chamotte has not been completely dyed b...”

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Course summary for: Dyed Ceramics: Coloring Ceramic Paste

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