Having decided to reapply to take the exam in Oct 18 I began to experiment with some ideas I have been having over the last few weeks. These were:
- Incorporate colour between layers of the bone china using a loom I made and CoCO3 (10%) coloured suspension
- Stabilise the tile surface before printing with 5% PVA
- Sgraffito of printed surface
- Over printing with different colours
- Print on fired tile.
- Strengthen tiles with artists acrylic varnish +/- varnish soaked rice tissue paper (See Graham Hay)
- Fire at lower temp on already fired tile for more stable colours
- Superimpose one coloured tile over another for more interesting image.
Images of all this below.
(1)Â Incorporate colour between layers of the bone china using a loom I made and CoCO3 (10%) coloured suspension
The loom
Over my standard plaster batt
Detail of fit
1/2cm pins
Cross image (a)
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(2)Â Stabilise the tile surface before printing with 5% PVA
Nothing to see here but works very well. No dust. Good print surface. Burns out leaving no residue.
(3)Â Sgraffito of printed surface
CoCO3
Teal Green
Teal Green & Black
The colours in the second two burnt to black at 1240:
The following represent (4), (5), (6 no tissue) & (7)
Green over print of Black
CoCO3 and green over intrincic colour
Ditto
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Reflected
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Transmitted warm white
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Reflected
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Transmitted warm white
They look awful like that. However, sunlight and cool white look much better:
(8)Â Superimpose one coloured tile over another
Even though the actual images here are often a bit of a mess the outcome is striking. Although the rear tile is visually unsatisfactory alone, as a background through translucency it achieves something greater. Obviously more careful choice of image, pattern and colour for the 2 tiles would result in more aesthetic outcomes. The tiles could be glued together with cyanoacrylate and mounted and lit in various ways. Strengthening would be via varnish and tissue. Light via spots or light ribbon in wall box. Cool white.
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