Multi colored sgraffito process on a pottery bowl.
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2022
- I am working on a more in depth tutorial on my multicolored sgraffito process for you guys! Please send me your questions in the comments so I can incorporate them in the tutorial and make it more useful for you!
In the meantime you can watch my process in this video, although edited it is in real time.
The clay I used is Laguna #65 stoneware for cone 5/6, the slips are made from that same claybody with Mason stains. As soon as this bowl is fired I will post a picture in the community section of this channel.
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Happy potting!
It might be helpful to mention, to people that are complete novices, that you are applying a colored "slip" clay to an unfired "greenware" bowl. And that the little pebble you are using to "burnish" the rim of the bowl is to smooth and more securely bind the colored slip to the bowl. You might, in future videos, explain how you mix the stains in the clay that you use to make the colored slips if you are not using premixed slips.
I am intending to mention all of that. Those are the basics I will talk about. I was hoping to get questions I had not thought about. I appreciate your imput very much, thanks!
I would love to know which mason stains you use. I know some will burn out in a cone 6 firing and I do not want to do all of this work and have it not turn out.
@@micheledickey4066 I believe Mason has information about that on their website. It is not only that some burn out at cone 6, it also depends heavily on the glaze you put on top. I have not had any luck with greens at all, I mix blues and yellows to create my greens. also pinks are difficult, they need a different glaze. I use reds and white to create pink. These are some that work for me: shrimp pink, red 5987, sapphire blue, sunshine yellow, jade 6255. All crimson reds do not work for me, victoria green does not work for me. I am sorry to say but you are probably going to have to put the work in to get results you like. Just have a test or 2 in each firing and you'll get there.
@@nukuaceramicsbonaire Thank you. I bought 6 or 7 mason stains and then I found out that certain ones aren’t supposed to be used to color clay, some don’t fire well at cone 6 etc. The site does list them all but there are only 6 colors they say actually work in clay for colored slip. But then I have spoken to many people who use the mason stains to color clay and they say it doesn’t matter. Ugh. I do many many tests in every single kiln load. I just happened to start this technique a few days ago on a whim when I saw your beautiful scrafito pieces. I will definitely do some tests. I am loading my big kiln today and will bisque fire it tomorrow. I noticed how you put a base color on each pot and I did not do that with mine so filling each and every spot was getting a bit hard. These are just test pieces so no worries. Thanks again.
@@nukuaceramicsbonaire I went to the mason stain website and I could only find the yellow and jade mason stains. Which white do you use? Thank you for helping me so much. I so appreciate it. I just don’t want to buy these and not have them work. They are soo expensive.
Nice work, but you should show us the finished piece out of the kiln. It's like stopping the film before the ending.
Gorgeous, thank you for sharing your work.
I love the ball stylus tool for all curve work! I love your cute design! So much fun!
Pretty in pink…..what a lovely bowl.
Thank you Clara!
Monique, thank you so much for meeting with me today!!!! You are an inspiration!!!! Taking the time to talk with a new Potter!!🥰🥰🥰I absolutely love your videos!!!
Hi Cynthia, it was so lovely to meet sparkly you! And a pleasure to talk about pottery. Off to throwing some mugs for you and you teacher now... 😉
I learned a lot with your video, thank you for sharing your art!
Lovely work!
You Tube is tricky...Thank you for teaching me aspects of ceramic art I was questioning. What's with the subscribing algorythem (sp?) thing As a Luddite, I think computers need monitoring...You have WAY more admirers that this machine gives you credit for.I agree with showing the finished result. Alas, these days, unless watching a sour dough starter, start...our attention spans seek results. Love your videos
Thank you for your kind words! It makes happy to learn my videos help and/or inspire! I personally do not worry to much about the algorithm. I believe in sharing and, spreading creativity into the world. The world needs that because there is way to much 'follow the crowd' behavior and people do not realize or remember that we are creative beings... just my 2 cents 😉. As I live on a small island I am glad this technology exists. Is it prefect? No, I don't think so but, it also is what we do with it. But I really appreciate you chiming in and I hope you enjoy my little part of the You Tube corner! Happy potting!
Hi Monique, Ive been watching your Scrafito, there was a question on a ceramics group recently re; sgraffito , so I told her to watch you, I'm am still trying to buck up the courage to have a go, I think its stunning, And you are a great teacher thankyou so much. Val Southampton England
Hi Val, thanks for chiming in! I hope you do have a go at sgraffito, just go for it and have fun! It's only clay.... 😃
Very nice!!
Thank you!
Thanks Monique ??? I'm going to give it a go 👍
have fun!
That is so cool! You make it look easy! Would I be correct in assuming your bowl was green ware? Your technique is very unique. I am looking forward to your tutorials. Thanks in advance!
Thanks for commenting! Yes, the bowl was greenware, leatherhard.
Mi Monique, do you find an ultimate amount of colours that works...4? if it dries out too much to cut back due to time that day, what do you do? damp it down with a sprayer or put it in a wet box etc. thanks
Hi Pete, thanks for chiming in! At the moment I use max 3 colors. Layering colors makes other colors change too so you have to test wich colors work.on top of each other. I have a large, non functioning fridge in wich I keep my pieces damp.
Great info thankyou, i had a paint your own pottery studio a few years ago and a lot of the children used to mix up the paints which had to then be thrown away like a lot of studios do, or... i found when mixing all the underglaze colours together you always got brown. Then adding white gave different shades. So it is interesting you using 3. Using a 4th could change everything. Thankyou.
@@petearnold8020 I can imagine the mess when kids are using underglazes! 🙂. With stains and underglazes it is a little bit like the color wheel used in painting. Mix cool and warm colors and you will get a brown/grey color. I do not mix my slips when I paint my pots with it, I overlap them and make sure each layer is thick enough so the colors underneath do not show through to keep each color vibrant. In the example in this video I only use warm colors and they are all in the same family of reds so no risk of colors getting 'muddy'.
Hi Monique, Just watching this Vlog , " again " are the colours you are putting on coloured slip or underglaze, Thanks Val England
Hi Val, thanks for your question. In this case they are all coloured slips. Made with Mason stains and slip from the same clay body.
Are you using slip colored with mason stains? What kind of glaze are you using? Does the glaze have to be zinc-free? I'm having trouble with clear glazes making my mason stain run.
Thanks for chiming in! Yes, I use Mason stains in a slip made from the same clay body as the bowl. My glaze does not have zinc, however, some stains 'like' zinc, others don't. Do you use the Mason stains on their own? I have never had my slips run. I will have a chapter on Mason stains in my tutorial.
@@nukuaceramicsbonaire I mix the mason stains with Laguna Toshi cone 10 casting slip and do slip casting. There is a lot more detail in the colors in what I am doing and sometimes our transparent studio glaze leaves the detail looking blurry, the colors run together a bit. I love your sgraffito!
@@pmbeerspottery2563 Hi! Thanks! I can imagine the detail you can get with slipcasting colored slips, a fun technique too! I don't know the Laguna Toshi casting slip so I can't help you there. It could be the slip itself becoming somewhat fluid in the firing which then will drag the colors with it. Do you fire at cone 10? Does it happen with all the colors or only a few? Have you tested with other clear glazes? Maybe you could make some small items, all the same size and same colored slips and fire with different glazes. I use MS29 clear bright and fire to cone 5.5/6.
how long should the underglaze dry before carving
The underglaze, or colored slip should have no more sheen to it and is not sticky anymore. If you are carving through and it smears you can wait a little longer. It is all about timing. When you carve and the little pieces fall off easily and don't stick to your piece, that's the perfect time. How long that takes depends on the temperature and humidity where you live and on how wet the piece you are putting it on is.
where is the finished product ??? LETS SEE IT!
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I have a few questions. How wet is the piece when you put the slip on? I have tried several different wetness and the colors were smudging. Also is the slip completely dry when you start carving? If your piece dries out a bit too much can you wet it a bit and put it in a bag to rehydrate and then carve? I tried this with slip cast pieces and underglaze but the underglaze became so dry and thick that it was hard to get through with the carving tool. Thank you soo much. I am really wanting to get this technique down because I absolutely love the results. Thanks.
Hi Michele! Thanks for your questions. I will keep them in mind when I make a more in depth tutorial. I am working towards that.... 🙂 Are your underglazes smudging with each other? Then you have to wait longer between layers. Wait until a layer is dry to the touch, then put on the next layer. Or do they smudge with the clay of the piece? Then you also have to wait a bit longer. I put my slips on when the piece is leather hard or even dryer. My slips are dry to the touch when I start carving. However, I start a bit softer than you would normally do because everything dries like crazy in the climate I live in. Test by carving a bit, if the crumbs fall of without sticking to the piece you are good to go. I keep my pieces in an old refrigerator and spray the pieces with water. I can keep my pieces damp for a long time. Depending on how dry your piece is yes, I think that could work. Remember that slip cast pieces usually are thinner and therefor dry faster. It is like it always is with ceramic, try, test and test and try again! 😉
@@nukuaceramicsbonaire Thank you so much. I actually slip cast several pieces extra thick so that I could carve them. Then I saw your last video and thought I had to try that. So they were extra thick and I also put them in bags so they would stay more wet. I don’t have very good carving tools so I think that may be the problem when I’m carving and I get a bit of color in the clay. So my piece is covered with 3 layers of underglaze and when I push the carving tool in and pull down to take a chunk out, the underglaze goes into the top part of the carved piece. I think it’s because the tool I’m carving with is just too dull and a bit rounded. I just can’t spend that much money on the tools from Diamond core. I just recently got my pottery in a gift shop so I’m not making money yet. Maybe if I see that my pottery is selling I can spend a little bit. Thank you so much.
@@micheledickey4066 I think it is a combination of to wet and a rounded tool. You do need a sharp tool. However, you do not need the expensive Diamond core tools. As a matter of fact, I don't like them for sgraffito, they ware away to fast! For trimming I like them though. Look up Kemper tools, they are nice tools for a good price. Perfect to start with! I use them a lot. Or make your own tools with staples! There is a video out there on YT somewhere.
Do you have a link to the stylus pen you use to mark it out ? X
Hi Karen, I don't for the one ìn this video, it was gifted to me. I don't have it anymore (it dissapeared after a workshop 😳). I now have the same tools in several sizes from Kemper tools. They are great too! I think I bought mine from DickBlick but any ceramics supplier should have Kemper tools.
Is that underglaze or colored slip?
These are colored slips.
is this coloured slip? or is it underglaze?
oh i see someone already asked that. Coloured slip it is!
Ok So, You Give the piece an all over base coat first got it !!! Its 17.26 Here in England, Very dark and very wet, Clay keeps me sane ??? I think😂
Yes I do 1 solid coat first. Believe it or not, it is rainy here too! Clay is the only option lol
What glaze do you put Over the sgraffito.
Hi Linda, I use MS29 clear bright by Laguna.
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thank you so much !! I love you Videos.😄
@@lindahayes2868 thank you!
Where can we see the finished product?
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What will be: "If you colour your piece. Made your sketched of your design/Flamingos with a pencil and followed the sketch lines with underglaze in light or intensiver lines like in black, grayish or brown, as you like. Than processes your work as you used to with the point tool and wire tool to draw the design and removing unnessarsary colour spaces?" With the underglaze lines, would it not leave shades of the underglaze lines on the object and it gives kind of a character to the drawing and depth? I saw the process of the flamingos, and thought, that looks very good with the pencil lines added. After 1. fireing they are gone, but must this be? *Question of a Starter*
Hi Viki, thanks for commenting. Yes, you can use underglazes to make a painting with shadows and more details. It is personal preference. I like it a little bit more abstract and because I use 3 colors it will have more character but that will become more visible after the firing.
Is this slip or underglaze?
This is slip. Made from the same claybody with Mason stains added.
What clay body?
Laguna #65
Why do you burnish your rim and won't it ruin your work?
to smooth the slip on that rim.
No help to me!! 😢 why don’t you talk over the video and discuss your dryness do the bowl, underglazes used, etc…