Monoprinting On Ceramics

From screen printing on clay to lithography on clay there are lots of ways for artists to get their images onto the ceramic surface.

Monoprinting on ceramics. Build the clay piece. Clay monoprinting with martha castillo duration. Nov 5 2013 explore sonya penn s board clay monoprints on pinterest. Before any color can be added your clay piece must be built.

See more ideas about monoprint clay ceramic art. Check out her process and then give it a try for yourself. Pieces are coil and slab built earthenware with coloured slips and screen printed and monoprinted ceramic inks built up in layers on the surface. The monoprinting process will not work well if extra pieces are added on.

To ensure success when printing you will want to create a piece made from slabs. Ceramic tiles by fiona thompson. In today s post jason shows how to transfer a screen printed image to a clay slab. They are fired 3 or 4 times with glaze transfers and lustres applied at different stages.

Screen printing on ceramics is definitely a trend these days and one of the main trend setters in this area is jason bige burnett. The monoprinting process for clay prints is the same as it is for paper prints with the notable exception of working with different core supplies. This video demonstrates monoprinting onto clay using underglaze or slip. Monoprinting is a method of transferring an image one time onto another surface an.

Learn how to add color to you ceramic pieces with monoprinting. These techniques as well as transferring a design to the pottery or the use of clay slips essentially clay with a high moisture content often with added colorants continue in the much more recent art form referred to as clay monoprints. As catie miller demonstrates in today s post an excerpt from the pottery making illustrated archives clay monoprinting is a perfect way to transfer hand drawn designs to round pots. A plaster bat is used as the printing plate underglaze is used to create the imagery and clay or casting slip replaces the paper used to pull capture the image off the plaster bat.