What is the general process of making hand-painted ceramics?

1, Mud kneading: The purpose is to empty the air bubbles in the mud and make the mud more dense. Without this process, the green body is easy to have bubbles, and it is easy to crack and deform after drying and firing.

2. Blanking: Jingdezhen traditional round vessels are blank-making, that is, roughly corresponding blanks are made according to the final shape of the vessels for later printing.

3. Printing blank 1: the blank is naturally dried in the shade after a certain period of time (it must be naturally dried in the shade at a certain humidity and temperature, and cannot be exposed to the sun. The blank formed by the blank must be placed obliquely on the blank plate, not vertically. If placed vertically, it may cause the blank at the bottom to crack before entering the blank printing process.

4. Blank 2: It is to make the hand-shaped circular device uniform after firing. After the hand-drawn blank is naturally dried in the shade, the semi-dried blank is placed on a local grinding tool and slapped by hand to make the blank evenly knotted.

5. Blank: Finishing the printed blank to make it more polished and rounded.

6. Glazing: round utensils are made. If the utensils are not decorated, they need to be glazed first. The glaze on the outside of the utensil is the second dipping glaze in the later period. Glaze is a thin layer of glass attached to the surface of ceramic body, which has similar physical and chemical properties to glass. Glazes are generally made of timely, feldspar and clay.

7. Drawing: After swinging the inner glaze blank, you can enter the drawing process. The blue and white materials used for drawing blanks need to be ground for a long time in advance, and every studio can't do without the formula. To draw a blank, you must first prepare the painting materials, then tick the lines and mix the water.

Extended data:

There are two kinds of paintings on porcelain, decal/paper porcelain and hand-painted porcelain. Porcelain decal is to make patterns into drawing paper and stick them on ceramics, while hand-painting is hand-painting.

Look at the pattern of the picture with a magnifying glass (the eyes can easily distinguish it). If there is a mesh pattern similar to that on cloth, it is decal/paper. Hand-painted is not exactly the same. You can compare two identical cups. If the pictures are exactly the same, they are decals.

It is difficult to distinguish the underglaze decals of blue and white. Because of different efforts, hand-painted colors will have different shades, and decals are difficult to make, which is also an important reference. Pastel decals are glazed and easy to distinguish. Now there is semi-hand painting, which is between decal and hand painting. This is to stick to the line and then fill it with color or water. It can also be distinguished by the above methods, which is more difficult.