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Bowls for Bean's Cafe'
Silk Screen Image Transfer Experiments
From FVCS workshop held at Leola's Studio Friday 11/4/11.
Monday, November 7, 2011
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Bowls for Bean's Cafe' Workshop
Success!
Fresh out of the kiln this morning. Check out these latest experiments from a FVCS workshop I taught this past Friday night. I asked students to experiment with the silk screen transfer papers on bisqued bowls that I had made to donate to Bean's Cafe' annual Empty Bowl fundraiser. (The fundraiser isn't until March, but this is when I have time to dedicated to making bowls for this event. I donate 250-500 bowls each year to help feed the hungry.)
The images were silk screened onto old sewing pattern paper using maison stains or underglazes mixed with extender printing medium. This technique is like the temporary tattoos you get in some gum wrappers. To transfer an image, place it ink side down on the pot, applying a small amount of water and then some pressure with a slightly damp sponge. After a few seconds of pressing, you peel off the paper and the silk screened image remains. Add other paint embellishments either before or after applying the tattoo transfer and walla! You have made a transfer on clay.
(More images to be posted with link to my Flikr account: Girdwood Potter.)
Friday, November 4, 2011
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Front & Back Veiws
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Underglaze Silk Screen Transfer Experiments.What fun to play with something new! Really happy with how these are turning out.
Tried several methods to silk screen images onto tissue paper for water tattoo like transfer onto clay.
(1) Straight Underglaze: too watery, flaked off paper once dried.
(2) Shaving Cream: used as a thickener (what was recommended by the silk screen company), gel made it too thick to go through the screen. ? if foam shaving cream would work better.
(3) Glycerin: worked great! A few drops in the underglaze thickened up the paint and allowed it to stick to the paper.
(4) Extender + Mason Stains: my favorite. Didn't make use of the underglazes, but gave sharp dark image that stayed on the paper and easily transfered. Now all I have to do is invest in more mason stains and find a local supplier for the extender medium.
Note: tissue paper works ok, but the best paper I found (hint from UAA professor Melissa Mencinni) has been recycled pattern paper from old sewing patterns. This paper is more durable and is closest to the commercial transfer papers one can buy from China or Japan.
Plan to experiment more with these during my upcoming workshops to make bowls for Bean's Cafe' Empty Bowl fundraiser. Will post photos of finished bowls soon.
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