![]() ![]() Jumping right in, I naïvely assumed that printing on clay would be just as easy as any other kind of screen printing. Finally, I didn’t want to mess with solvents, oils, decals or other products that might produce irritating fumes or messes. Next, I wanted the prints to survive high-temperature firings, including wood firing. First, I wanted to manipulate the printed clay, so it had to be printed while the clay was still workable. I had three technical goals for the process I wanted to develop. I decided that silkscreened images would be the solution to pursue to bring the backsides of these pieces to life. The back of the kiln was struggling to get to temperature-the pots in the back third of the kiln had decent ash and flashing on the front-facing sides, but the backsides were anemic and lifeless. Several years ago, the kiln developed a problem. It happened like this: for many years I’ve been firing with Richard Rowland in his Astoria Dragon Kiln, an anagama-style wood kiln that typically fires for over 100 hours with temperatures in the cone 11–13 range, and a lot of ash. I took, perhaps, the most indirect route to making prints on clay, and that, with a nod to Robert Frost, has made all the difference. The full article, including how to burn a silk screen, is included in Image & Design Transfer Techniques. In today’s post, an excerpt from Image & Design Transfer Techniques, he shares this process. So he came up with a process in which he screens a dry mix of a clear glaze and Mason stains onto damp newsprint, and then transfers the print onto a slab of clay. So he thought, why not start with dry materials? ![]() Pottery Making Illustrated Submission Guidelinesīrad Menninga was interested in screen printing on wet clay, but didn’t want to mess with screen printing medium or long drying times to get his “inks” (in this case a glaze) to the consistency at which they wouldn’t run.Pottery Making Illustrated's Print Mailing Schedule.Ceramics Monthly's Print Mailing Schedule.Workhouse Clay International ICAN Merit Award.ICAN Making a Difference in Ceramics Award.Annual National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition Award. ![]()
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