In this workshop students will
learn and master two different
printing on clay techniques. The
first technique will be silkscreening
an image in slip and then transferring
it to wet greenware. This allows
the image to adhere onto the clay
in the building process. These
greenware pieces will be completed
by the middle of the third day
and then fired to bisque. The second
phase of the workshop involves
making decals that can be applied
to a glazed surface. We will spend
a day making decals from our screens
and then applying them to prefabricated
ceramic forms. By using commercially
made plates, cups or tiles students
can learn the process of applying
the decal. When they get home they
can continue to use prefabricated
ceramic forms or apply the decal
to forms that they have already
made. On Thursday we will glaze
our bisqued pieces and load a glaze
kiln with both the prefabricated
ceramics with decals and the pieces
we just glazed. Friday we will
continue to make decals using a
laser printing process. These laser
printed decals are easy for students
to transport home. Friday afternoon
we will unload the kiln.