STENCILS are great fun ways to add images and detail to your work. They can be bought at- Michaels- Blick- Various Art Stores and online. They come in cheesy hearts and happy birthday all the way to high end sophisticated ones people use for airbrush tattoos and the like. Prices range from $1 to $35 for bigger higher quality ones. Some you will actually "recognize" they are so popular (yeck).
I like to use them on fresh thrown to pre-leather pieces ( you can use them on fired pieces as well) . Here are a few tips on using stencils on clay-VERY BASIC- No DVD needed for this...Hmmmm maybe I could do that instead of my inevitable project.
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Bridges Pottery - Pie Plates |
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Bridges Pottery - Pie Plates |
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4. Clean up any bleed or areas that need fixing using a small trimming tool or corner of a metal rib. You just want to gently scrape it off.
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Bridges Pottery - Pie Plates |
6. Don't like it - scrape the whole thing off with a metal rib and strat over. That's the beauty of doing it on moist clay. It it's a thrown piece like these pie plates - I can even put it back on the wheel and clean off the image if I want to have a do-over:)
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Those are beautiful. It looks like a fun technique.
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great post :)
Good tips. I've only used stencils a couple times and could have used the one about letting it dry before removing. Everytime I removed the wonderful spiral design It left splotches all over. Thanks.
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