PPIO

I’m a member of Porcelain Painters International Online or PPIO as it’s known.

PPIO is a place where porcelain artists can chat and share ideas

Here is a gallery of members paintings

Gallery 2

First self portrait

This is my first self portrait, I painted it this morning using overglaze paints, now it’s ready to be fired. I may add more later or maybe not.

This is the finished  portrait, as you can see I tweaked it further before firing, once fired the paint is permanent as it binds with the glaze.
Some of the paint in the heavy areas burned out, I expected this to happen, I added some more paint in places and fired again.

I was trying to paint tone using colour so here it is in B&W

Some people are put off by the colour,  people felt that way about the French  Impressionist paintings, they thought the flesh looked like corpses.
Which do you prefer? The B&W one looks more familiar to me for some reason

Technique used for ‘Wiltshire trees’

I’ve put together a video showing the technique used for this painting.

Watercolour or not?

I’ve been devoting a great deal of time to developing a method for overglaze painting ( or china painting as it’s often called) that is more akin to watercolours than to traditional china painting methods. I mix my overglaze paints with sugar and water in the wells of my palette, and then use water to paint with as you would with watercolours. As I’m working on a ceramic tile you cannot wet it first like paper, my way around this is to spritz on water allowing the colours to mingle and run.

Wiltshire trees

This painting is on a ceramic tile, it measures 20×30 cm

This is another painting using the same ‘watercolour’ technique for a china painting