Hand painting with underglaze and underglaze transfers #ceramics #pottery #glazevideo

Hey everybody, it's Tess. Welcome back to my channel. Today I am showing you how I glaze this mug using underglaze transfers and underglaze to paint hand-painted flowers. As you see, I'm just cutting out my underglaze transfer. These are from Elan transfers. I love this little chicken. A while back I saw a mug of a chicken with flowers all around it and I just thought it was really springy and fun and I kind of wanted to just do my own version of it. Here I am just placing my underglaze transfer onto my bisqueware mug and this transfer is from Elan transfers. I just use a little bit of water and I'm just checking it to see if it's ready. It's not quite ready yet so I'm going to go back and just press it on a little bit more. I love waiting to the bisqueware stage to put transfers on because I feel like it gives me the time to be creative. Now I'm just taking it off and then I just go in with a number two pencil. Make sure it's a number two that way your glaze will still cover it. Sometimes some pencils will act as like a wax resist. So I'm just going in and I'm just kind of like lightly sketching what I would like to be around this chicken. Just some flowers, some hearts, some tulips, some little vines, and yeah if you use a number two pencil on these you can just you can sketch it, you can erase it, and your glaze will cover it and then everything will be burned off in the kiln. And then I just go in after this with my speedball underglazes. I'll have these linked below. You can find them on Amazon which is really nice. I really like these ones because they're very consistent in their coloring. I feel like a lot of the time they really come out really similar to the color that you're using. Where a lot of times I feel like sometimes I'm like what color is this going to turn out or is this pink going to turn out? Every time I feel like I've had a good experience bit and then give the bottom some wax resist. So here I'm just dipping my mug into our wax resist. We just put some wax into an old skillet pan that we heat up and then I'm just dipping it into our 2167 mixing studio clear. And yeah this is the best clear ever on the market. And just gonna clean up my bottom here. So nice with the wax resist. Very minimal cleanup and she's ready to go into the kiln. Here I'm putting my mugs into the kiln and I will show you what they look like after. Everything I used will be linked in my bio. Please check it out and if you have any questions please let me know. Anyway hope you guys are doing well and I hope to have more of these videos up soon. Thank you!