buckeye Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 I have never laid out designs on any of my pots but have a few I want to and I have NO idea what I can use to draw out designs. What do you all use to draw out designs?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Need more info about what you are trying to do and the stage at which you are trying to do it. Wet, leather hard, dry, bisqued? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted November 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Need more info about what you are trying to do and the stage at which you are trying to do it. Wet, leather hard, dry, bisqued? Leather hard. One thing I want to do is lay out lines to put holes in a bowl to make a colander, thats what I am working on right now. I have made colanders before but I would like to get the holes perfect and not just close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 I have an EZ vide that would work for that. There is another newer brand of a similar idea. I also saw an Italian artist lay out a pattern. One directions had concentric circles made on a banding wheel or your potters' wheel. They other direction could be marked with an e z vide or a compass dividing the lip evenly. Then use a flexible ruler to drw across the colander. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynny Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Hi Buckeye I would choose the banding wheel to mark light pencil marks to give a guide for drilling the holes BTW there is a great product I use from my painting days to lay out drawings and patterns on my clay forms. It looks like the old carbon paper used by typists to make multiple copies, but it is not oil based. It comes in different colours so you can choose the best to show up on your clay body. Its available from any art supply shop and comes under many brand names, just ask for it and they'll show you the brand they sell It burns out and leaves no residue or marks ps hope your 1st bisque went well cheers, Lyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted November 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Hi Buckeye I would choose the banding wheel to mark light pencil marks to give a guide for drilling the holes BTW there is a great product I use from my painting days to lay out drawings and patterns on my clay forms. It looks like the old carbon paper used by typists to make multiple copies, but it is not oil based. It comes in different colours so you can choose the best to show up on your clay body. Its available from any art supply shop and comes under many brand names, just ask for it and they'll show you the brand they sell It burns out and leaves no residue or marks ps hope your 1st bisque went well cheers, Lyn thanks everyone for all the help! Lyn, the first bisque firing went great!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claclana Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Hi buckeye by mistake, I placed a sheet of jet printed paper on top of my clay (but was pretty wet) and when I finished transfering the image (pressing with pencil) I discovered that another image printed in the back of my paper was transfer to the clay ON JET INK by itself , Great! no more pencil to transfer: just ink to clay!! easier and accurate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klen11 Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Are you saying you are trying to make a ceramic bisque colander? One technique is as good as another. Just imagine as to how it can be done and do it. I don't understand the question well enough. Maybe some more details could help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
confused_yet_curious Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Hey, Have you by any chance thought about using the sgraffito or monoprinting as an techniques to draw out your layout or design? I've just started doing sgraffito and it's really fun, and I've been having fun finding glazes which would advance my design :0) if you do use sgraffito please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 Buckeye-My production way when I made them years ago was to have them trimmed and flipped so bowl is upside down clay wads or giffen grip holding it down on wheel head I would use a pencil to make the lines where you wanted them and then drill them with a cordless drill-its quick and easy-I was able to eyeball it very soon as to where the holes went with just a few light rings as a guide.The lines where so faint the glaze covered them up when fired. Make 5 of them and when you are on #5 it will be like riding a bike. Make the holes a little larger for glaze to fill in. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
confused_yet_curious Posted March 19, 2012 Report Share Posted March 19, 2012 I thought you meant design for decoration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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