Making Fingerprints On Ceramic Glazed Plates

To make the butterflies cover your child s index finger with black ceramic paint and press firmly to platter.

Making fingerprints on ceramic glazed plates.

Use a food safe glaze to paint a design on the plate or cover the whole plate. Make sure your ceramic paint is labeled food safe and toxic free if it will be used to serve food. Buy food and dishwasher safe ceramic paint if the plates will be used for food. Make slab and cut.

Add glazing and fire the plate again. To make it easier to fire leave the bottom unglazed so it can rest on a shelf without getting stuck to it with the glaze. Place newspaper pattern on slab and cut out plate using a fettling knife a plastic picnic knife works well for elementary age artists. Pebeo porcelaine 150 paints.

1 white oven safe ceramic plate. To make either the ladybug or bumblebee use red or yellow ceramic paint to cover the tip of your child s thumb and press firmly to platter. Craft retailers often stock specialty ceramic paint that you can apply freehand with a brush or to kick it up a notch use stencils or stamps in your design. Plates are meant to be eaten off of so make sure the paint you use to decorate your plate is safe.

When you use acrylic or ceramic paints you can easily create. Once dry add colorful wings antennas to head and cute faces to the butterflies. How to paint a faux fire glazed pottery look. This paint can be applied on porcelain china glazed earthenware and more.

Roll slab to 3 8 to 1 2 thickness and large enough for at least one plate per slab. High fire the wall plate to cone 11 in an oxidation atmosphere using a crystalline glaze firing profile. Replicate the look of fire glazed pottery without having to put your piece in the kiln. Then fire the plate again to the temperature required by your glaze.

Food safe paints are often labeled as such and can be found at your local art supply store. A step by step video on how to use the slab roller to make a plate with a unique foot. If your plates will be displayed in a case or hung on a wall as decoration only you can use enamel acrylic paint.