Wet Brush Technique Ceramics

Clean the paintbrush completely in the brush cleaner and water and let the dry brush color dry.

Wet brush technique ceramics. Antiquing and wet brush duration. For the first few years my experimentation meant a huge amount of trial and error failures and. Without overloading the brush apply paint to the object to be painted and spread it thinly over the surface. As a result i began experimenting with additions to the clay body itself including fiber grains and paper pulp.

Seeking a clay body with properties to best communicate my new ideas i found myself testing every kind of clay from my local supplier. Every type of brush will create its own unique footprint on your canvas be it paper fabric or ceramic. Two brush blending is a technique promoted by privateer press. Apply the darkest color first and finish with the lightest color on top.

Traen recommended for you. Brush strokes is the art of creating pictures and patterns with simple strokes of the paint brush. Any remaining rough areas can be sandpapered smooth with fine grained sandpaper. By namesake you ll need two different brushes for this blending technique.

Brush the object with a large soft hair paintbrush to remove any traces of powder that would create unsightly rough patches during the painting stage. Another brush to manipulate the paint s translucency while it is still wet. Basic brush strokes part i. Both accomplish results that leave depth and the crevice detail and accentuate the raised area with color.

Consider your piece of ceramic bisque as a piece of oil canvas. Wet brushing is done with damp soft taklon brush loaded with water and paint the brush is swiped against a scratch paper to work the color into the br ush and blotted on a paper towel to remove excess moisture. Ajs creation by johanna recommended for you. Dry brush smooth areas with more color left on your brush.

It is then applied to the piece by swiping the brush against grain keeping the paint on the raised textured and out of the crevice. Wet brushing is a technique done with wet soft bristle brush applied in single layer as opposed to dry brushing which is done with dry stiff bristle brush applied in layers. If you must clean the color out of a brush dry it before using it again real dry. If there is an additional color to be added to the ceramic piece wait until the paint is fully dry before adding a second color also in the opposite direction of the crevices of the ceramic piece.

If you are using more than one color in a dry brush technique always apply the colors on top of one another. Before long i had a studio full of reclaim. A brush to apply paint to the model.