HOW TO PAINT BLUE AND WHITE ON CERAMICS

Hi everyone, Seth Rosa here. Welcome back to the channel. Today I am going to show you how I painted this bowl using cobalt carbonate. They are blue and white Chinese painting inspired. Thanks for watching. The bowl is already dunked on white glaze. So right now I'm just diluting the cobalt blue or cobalt carbonate with water. So that's how I paint the bowl. I just basically eyeball it. I don't have no magic formula. Test the brush. I dilute it enough with a mixture making sure it's flowing well before I apply it on the bowl. So I'm painting a flower. I am copying it from my previously painted vase and they're right there in front of me. This bowl is thrown by another artist. It's a 182 white stoneware. The vase in front of me is my hand coiled vase and that's porcelain with clear glaze on top. You can watch my other porcelain vase in front of me. At the very end of the video I will show you the difference between using decal blue and white decal and stencil blue and white technique. So you can compare them between actual decal, under glaze and cobalt carbonate. So those are the three techniques that you can use in painting blue and white. In my opinion with all the techniques I rather paint on a bisque fired porcelain directly using cobalt carbonate. You just have to be very careful touching it because they do bleed. They do smear. For the stencil I use underglaze. I mix blue and black underglaze and I apply it using the sponge. I purchased them from Nseka. They are Sanbao brand. I do have another video if you want to them in more detail application. Again thanks for watching. Hopefully this is very helpful. Don't forget to click subscribe, comment and share.