Ceramic decoration: printing on clay

Course Content:
Day 1 (3 hours)

Preparing work for the second session which needs to achieve leatherhard state. Learners can make tiles, press moulded forms or bring along work in a leather hard state using earthenware and/or stoneware clay bodies. Flat surfaces are desirable such as cylinders or tiles rather than complex curved pieces

Printing with lino cuts and lace onto plastic clay using printing medium and ceramic stains.

Day 2 (3 hours)

Printing onto leatherhard clay using a lithographic technique. The tutor will bring a range of images to use based on a discussion with learners in the previous session.

Monoprinting onto leatherhard clay using slips. This involves building up layers or slip on newspaper and transferring the print to the leatherhard object.