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

This process can make the soil more dense and there are fewer bubbles in it, which is very helpful for redundant molding. If you don't do this, it will crack easily during firing.

2, making a blank

In Jingdezhen, the traditional round vessel blank making is to make roughly corresponding blanks according to the final shape of the vessel for later printing.

3. Printing blank

After natural drying in the shade for a certain period of time, the blank can enter the blank printing process.

The purpose of printing blank 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.

4, beneficial to the blank

The advantage of the blank is to trim the printed blank to make it smoother and rounder.

5. Glaze throwing

If the round vessel is not decorated, it needs 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. The methods of glazing ceramics are spraying, blowing, dipping, pouring and swinging.

We use the traditional throwing glaze method for inner glaze (inner glaze of utensils) and bottom glaze (bottom glaze of utensils), and we use dipping glaze method for outer glaze.

Step 6: Blanking

After swinging the blank of the inner glaze, 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.

Mixed water:

The charm of blue-and-white porcelain is just like the position of freehand brushwork in China's traditional Chinese painting, and the beauty of blue-and-white porcelain lies not only in fine painting, but also in the exquisite degree of painting and dyeing of traditional ink and wash landscapes in China, all of which come from the process of mixing water.

7. Exterior glaze

The finished porcelain blank needs secondary glazing. At this point, the foot of the cup has not yet formed. The glaze dipping method requires the master to have a comprehensive understanding and grasp of the expected values of blank, glaze and porcelain. The time that the porcelain body is immersed in glaze water directly affects the appearance of the fired porcelain.

Step 8 dig your feet

After the exterior of the porcelain blank is glazed and the glazed surface is naturally dried, it can enter the digging process. Because we are glazed objects, we need to leave the outermost blank when digging, and to keep the excircle basically the same, which requires strong control ability and foundation.

9. Write the bottom payment and coat the bottom glaze

10, glaze foot

Glazed foot, the initial state is a small round mud cake made by hand on a pottery wheel. After drying, the corresponding shapes are cut on the pottery wheel again, corresponding to each cup one by one.

1 1, full kiln, kiln burning

Put the prepared porcelain blank into the cellar evenly, which needs to be placed reasonably to facilitate the flue to flow away, otherwise it will affect the firing.

12, kiln opening

After 12- 18 hours of natural cooling, the kiln can be opened when the temperature in the kiln body drops to normal temperature. This is the most exciting moment in the whole production process.

Finally, it is necessary to inspect the porcelain burned in the kiln and polish the bottom.