Dyed Ceramics: Coloring Ceramic Paste
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Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Lessons
- 19 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Paula Casella Biase
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Step up your ceramic work by getting innovative with original, personalized color mixes to experiment with in your designs. Discover how to dye ceramic pastes with artist Paula Casella, who also teaches Ceramics at Home for Beginners, Ceramic Glazing for Beginners, and Ceramics: Modeling and Decoration.
In this course, learn to dye ceramic pastes and engobes, working off white extruded pastes and powders, as well as white engobes. Take a look at various techniques for using the pastes to produce amazing signature pieces.
Description
Start the course by getting to know Paula Casella and hearing all about her professional background. She shows you some inspirational references that helped her grow and nurture her own ceramic vision, then she briefly outlines what the course entails.
Find out how to color ceramic pastes in different formats such as wet and powder, then engobes and grog. Next, try out different blends of oxides and pigments and see the great variety of results you can get.
Paula then moves on to teach you techniques for experimenting with colored pastes. Discover how easy it is to create unique pieces with just a few tools, among them a kitchen grater, clips, dry glaze, copper wire, a roller, and stencils for shaping your pieces.
Delve deeper and explore a great paste technique using a carving tool, a brush, a cutter, and sandpaper to create a delicate Nordic piece. Paula explains some important points relating to classifying your samples and shows you some examples to get you inspired and creating.
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