Ceramic Stains: The Easy Way to Create All the Colors of the Rainbow on Your Pottery
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
Learning how to work with ceramic colorants can be one of the most exciting parts of the ceramic process to the novice potter or ceramic artist. Developing the skills to effectively use ceramic colorants in glazes, slips, and clay can really help potters and ceramic artists develop their voices in clay.
This section features articles on how to use how to use ceramic stains and colorants in glaze recipes, how to make colored slip, how underglazes can be used to create bright colors and so much more. And ceramic colorants are not just used to create color ON the surface. You’ll also find out how to make colored clay and use it for techniques such as nerikomi or neriage.
Plus, don’t forget to download your free copy of How to Add Color to Your Ceramic Art: A Guide to Using Ceramic Colorants, Ceramic Stains, and Ceramic Oxides, which is a great primer on ceramic pigments!
If you’ve delved into it at all, you know that creating ceramic color is a tricky subject. Unlike paints, ceramic colorants often look very different in their unfired state than they do in their fired state. So it helps to have a good understanding of all of the ceramic colorant options available. The great news for potters today is that it doesn’t take years of experimentation and testing to come up with the color you want. Because of modern stain technology, we have practically every color of the rainbow at our fingertips.
Browse through these pages and make sure you know what colorant is most suited to using in a clay body versus what works best in a glaze. Learn about what oxides make which colors, and how different firing atmospheres can impact color. The subject of ceramic colorants is fascinating! Dive in today and add some color to your work!
Learn how to use ceramic colorants, stains, and underglazes when you download this freebie, How to Add Color to Your Ceramic Art.
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
Ceramic stains make it possible to create glazes that fire to just about any color of the rainbow. But one … Read More
A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of watching Kristina Bogdanov demonstrate a really cool way to transfer … Read More
Lana Wilson uses texture and clay slip to decorate much of her work. It’s a a lot of fun to … Read More
Ceramic pigments, often referred to as ceramic stains, have vastly opened up the color possibilities for potters. And as we … Read More
If you’re bored with glazing, working with colored clay is a fun way to get color and pattern onto your … Read More
Drawing/painting on clay is something I have experimented with from time to time with limited success. So I always have … Read More
Sometimes you just need a change. Tim Ludwig began to feel that his work needed a change about ten years … Read More
One of my favorite things about ceramics is that there seem to be endless ways to decorate clay surfaces. In … Read More
Frustrated by the amount of time between forming a piece and decorating it after a bisque fire, Mitch Lyons came … Read More
Learn how to use ceramic colorants, stains, and underglazes when you download this freebie, How to Add Color to Your Ceramic Art.