TECHNIQUE TILES

Essential Questions:

What are some different ways to decorate a ceramic surface?
What traditional and non-traditional tools can be used to decorate ceramic surfaces?
How can I mix colors to create an original color or color match?

Learning Targets:

Students will be learning different decorating techniques.
- Slip trailing, sgraffito, mono printing, and wax resist
To create their slabs, they will learn how to use the slab rolling machine and create a smooth surface.
Use test tiles to create the desired color and effect.

Prepare Tiles

Step One: Wedge a pound of clay.

Step Two: Flatten out the clay by flipping the clay and dropping it on the table at an angle.

Step Three: Once the clay is about an inch thick, take it over to the slab rolling machine.

Step Four: Smooth out your clay surface with the metal rib.

Step Five: Place the square template on the flattened clay and use the needle tool to cut out 4 tiles. With the leftover clay, cut out a circle and rectangles for the color wheel and value scale using the templates and needle tool.

Sgraffito

Sgraffito, (Italian: “scratched”), in the visual arts, is a technique used in painting, pottery, and glass, which consists of putting down a preliminary surface, covering it with another, and then scratching the superficial layer in such a way that the pattern or shape that emerges is of the lower color.

Assignment

Step One: On one of the prepared tiles, paint three layers of underglaze. Make sure each layer is dry before applying another layer.

Step Two: Trace or draw your design onto the tile. Use the sgraffito tools to carve your design.

Step Three: Once you finish your design, place your tile on the Greenware to Bisque fire shelf.

Step Four: After your tile is bisque, clean the tile by putting it under running water and wiping it with a sponge.

Step Five: Apply clear glaze to the tile.

Step Six: Place it on the Glaze fire shelf.

Step Seven: After it is glaze fired, take a picture using the photo studio tent and add it to your process page.

Step Eight: Add your reflection to your process page.

Slip Trailing

Slip trailing is a great way to use clay slips as a decorative tool. Like its cousin, glaze trailing, slip trailing applies material in lines using a slip trailer or other applicator. The big difference is that this ceramic decorating technique adds lines and patterns and creates a raised surface texture that adds tactility to the decoration.

Assignment

Step One: Draw out your design using the slip squeeze bottle on one of the prepared tiles.

Step Two: Once you finish your design, place your tile on the Greenware to Bisque fire shelf.

Step Three: After your tile is bisque clean the tile by putting it under running water and wiping it with a sponge.

Step Four: Apply glaze to the tile.

Step Five: Place it on the Glaze fire shelf.

Step Six: After it is glaze fired, take a picture using the photo studio tent and add it to your process page.

Step Seven: Add your reflection to your process page.

Mono Print

Clay monoprinting allows you to make small-scale production work without the commitment of burning a screen to do silk-screen transfers.

Assignment

Step One: Draw a design on a sheet of newsprint using underglaze. (Remember it will be a reverse image, so if you are using letters, they need to be backward.)

Step Two: When your underglaze design is dry, you are ready to transfer.

Step Three: Spray a little bit of water onto your leather hard tile. Place your newsprint onto the tile, design side down. Use a damp sponge to saturate the newsprint slowly. peel off the newsprint, and your design should transfer over to the tile.

Step Four: Once you finish your design, place your tile on the Greenware to Bisque fire shelf.

Step Five: After your tile is bisque clean the tile by putting it under running water and wiping it with a sponge.

Step Six: Apply clear glaze to the tile.

Step Seven: Place it on the Glaze fire shelf.

Step Eight: After it is glaze fired, take a picture using the photo studio tent and add it to your process page.

Step Nine: Add your reflection to your process page.

Wax Resist

The function of the wax resist is to keep liquids, such as raw liquid glazes, from adhering to the clay body of a pot. The most common use for wax resists is also the most practical.

Assignment

Step One: On one of the prepared tiles, paint underglaze that will be your bottom layer color.

Step Two: Once you finish underglaze, place your tile on the Greenware to Bisque fire shelf.

Step Three: After your tile is bisque clean the tile by putting it under running water and wiping it with a sponge.

Step Four: When it is dry, you can use the wax resist to paint your design. These are the areas you want the underglaze layer to show.

Step Five: Once the wax is dry, apply the glaze layers. Wipe off the glaze that might be left on the wax.

Step Six: Place your tile on the Glaze fire shelf.

Step Seven: After it is glaze fired, take a picture using the photo studio tent and add it to your process page.

Step Eight: Add your reflection to your process page.

Color Theory

Color Wheel

A color wheel is an abstract, illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, etc.

Assignment

Step One: Prepare a slab and use the template to cut out the color wheel. Place it on the Greenware to Bisque fire shelf. Make sure your signature is on the back.

Step Two: Rinse your bisque ware.

Step Three: Paint the color wheel's red, yellow, and blue areas.

Step Four: Write down how much color you use to mix secondary and tertiary colors in your workbook. Mix the secondary colors first.

Step Five: Mix the secondary colors first using a mixing pallet. Use the combinations below and paint the color in the correct space in parentheses:

Drop of Red and drop of Blue (Purple)
Drop of Red and drop of Yellow (Orange)
Drop of Yellow and drop of Blue (Green)

Step Six: Mix the tertiary colors next using a mixing pallet. Use the combinations below and paint the color in the correct space in parentheses:

2 drops of Red and one drop of Blue (Red Purple)
2 drops of Blue and one drop of Red (Blue Purple)
2 drops of Blue and one drop of Yellow (Blue Green)
2 drops of Yellow and one drop of Blue (Yellow Green)
2 drops of Red and one drop of Yellow (Red Orange)
2 drops of Yellow and one drop of Red (Yellow Orange)

Step Seven: Place your glazed color wheel on the Glaze fire shelves.

Step Eight: After it is glaze fired, take a picture of your glazed color wheel and your color wheel notes. Upload the pictures to the assignment on Schoology.

Value Scales

Step One: Prepare your slab and cut out a 2" X 8" rectangle. Put your slab on the Greenware to bisque fire shelves. Make sure your signature is on the back.

Step Two: Rinse your bisque ware.

Step Three: Divide your value scale tile into 7 equal sections.

Step Four: Write notes in your workbook value scale sheet. Paint the pure color on the first section.

Step Five: Using a mixing pallet, mix one drop of color and one drop of white. Paint the section below the pure color.

Step Six: Add another drop to the mix and paint in the third section.

Step Seven: Add another drop to the mix and paint in the fourth section.

Step Eight: Add another drop to the mix and paint in the fifth section.

Step Nine: Add another drop to the mix and paint in the sixth section.

Step Ten: Paint the last section white.

Step Eleven: Place your glazed tile on the Glaze fire shelves.

Step Twelve: After it is glaze fired, take a picture of your glazed value scale tile and notes. Upload the pictures to the Schoology assignment.

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