Monoprinting On Ceramics

The clay monoprint artist works on a slab of traditional high temperature stoneware clay and adds or manipulates additional clay in various forms.

Monoprinting on ceramics.

Her interest in monoprinting developed after seeking a way to develop the surfaces of her vessels and to push her art she said. The imagery is created on a flat printing plate glass plexiglas or metal with oil based ink. To ensure success when printing you will want to create a piece made from slabs. Monoprinting is a method of transferring an image one time onto another surface an.

An extra cool thing about this clip from the graphic pot is that jason shows how. This video demonstrates monoprinting onto clay using underglaze or slip. Clay monoprinting allows you to make small scale production work without the commitment of burning a screen to do silk screen transfers. Jason draws on his background in screen printing and image design to create his super fun work.

This video shows how to do image transferring onto clay using lithography and pronto plates. If you have any questions please don t hesitate to contact me. Instead of carving into the surfaces erteman began developing them outward through monoprinting. Learn how to add color to you ceramic pieces with monoprinting.

The monoprinting process will not work well if extra pieces are added on. The clay monoprinting process begins with a template drawing. In today s post jason shows how to transfer a screen printed image to a clay slab. Monoprinting is a printmaking method that yields a single mono original print using a printing plate ink and paper as the core supplies.

If you have a ceramic slab roller you can also use it to roll over the plexiglass with a piece of felt on top of the plate. Before any color can be added your clay piece must be built. This is the case when monoprinting meets ceramics. Initial clay slab or matrix the most common addition is through the use of typically colored clay slips.

Trace the template drawing onto a new piece of newsprint i use a light table to do this 1 using a slip trailing squeeze bottle filled with amaco electric blue velvet underglaze. Screen printing on ceramics is definitely a trend these days and one of the main trend setters in this area is jason bige burnett.