Ceramics at Home for Beginners

Overview

“After the enamelling you can give a special touch to your pieces with the most used third fire technique: the gold luster. You will see how easy it is to give a touch of distinction to your wonderful pieces.”

In this video lesson Paula Casella Biase addresses the topic: Gold luster, 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

“Gold Luster Hi. Now I'll teach you how to apply a gold luster to your fired pieces. Gold luster is an overglaze. First you need a biscuit piece that you'll then glaze. You need a really shiny glaze to make your gold luster work. Here you have some finished pieces. We'll be working with this, with the dotted bowl and the little glass. I always put some luster on top. Since we're doing a kid set, I'll be drawing the eyes and some freckles. Gold luster is easy to apply. But you need to beware of its toxicity. So there's something we always absolutely need to use when we're applying it. A vapor...”

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Course summary for: Ceramics at Home for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 21 lessons (3h 51m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Fine Arts