Ceramic Bisque Pottery Painting Techniques
Ceramic Emporium.com features ceramic bisque from a professional artist, and Cathie loves sharing acrylic painting techniques for use on unpainted ceramics and other craft surfaces.
For our blog visitors, we will also occasionally provide a discount code so you can get some ceramic bisque to practice on, and often it will be the pieces used in the demonstrations! Hopefully this will encourage you to experiment in painting pottery and other crafts. The code will only be valid for the a short, stated period of time- and we have some really good deals coming up. But only for those folks who are smart enough to bookmark the blog so they don’t miss out!
Coming next: acrylic painting using whites. Cathie will show you how to create glowing whites using orange, blue, gray, purple, and white. Be sure to leave suggestions on what you’d like to see painted. Fur? Feathers? Leaves? Clothing?
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Hi– just found your site and I’m definitely going to bookmark it! I would like to know how to paint eyes– my whites were too white and looked awful so this is a good place for me to start.
Hi Gail- Cathie here. I actually have a series for eyes! Will post after the white series, as it’s a slightly different approach. The eyes I did a demonstration for are brown, but the same principles apply to blue and green eyes.
In the meantime, be sure you put a bit of dark gray and dark blue in the corner of the eye, add white and stroke toward the middle so it gradually pulls inwards. To make the rim of the eye add depth, one teeny tiny (and I do mean teeny tiny) line which is lighter than the skin color will make the eye appear more inset.
I am getting ready to open my own ceramic shop and need to learn everything before hand My sister use to teach classes but I have a hard time trying to get her to help me. I have everything I need including over 4000 molds and 2 kilns and I have poured cleaned and fired my first batch now I just need to learn to paint the bisque
I found your website and LOVE the detail of your ceramics… is that your entire selection? I’d like to order because I can’t stand having mold lines and / or missing detail where the mold line was. I’m really into lighthouses, nativities, or other “scenic” type pieces. Any of that stuff coming?
Thanks for the articles!
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