Ceramics at Home for Beginners

Overview

“In this lesson you will meet different types of enamels (suspended enamels, oxides, lusters) that are used to glaze traditional ceramics, as well as the paints that are used to decorate the air-dried clay. I will also show you what other materials you need to create certain effects (marble, gouache), as well as the appropriate tools needed in each particular case.”

In this video lesson Paula Casella Biase addresses the topic: Materials to decorate your pieces, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ceramics at Home for Beginners. Learn modeling and enameling techniques to create decorative pieces.

Partial transcription of the video

“Materials to Decorate your Pieces Hi. For this lesson, we'll go over all the different tools and materials that we need to glaze our ceramic pieces. Since we'll go over five different glazing techniques, I'm going to explain which materials we'll use for each. First of all, for our lesson on bone dry clay, we'll be using acrylics. With these acrylics here, we don't need any color testing. Once it's dry, you'll get the exact same color that you saw on the package, except maybe a little darker. So our bone-dry clay can be glazed with acrylics and sometimes some people recommend you glaze it w...”

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Course summary for: Ceramics at Home for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 82638 students
• 5 units
• 21 lessons (3h 51m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Fine Arts