You can save your brushes by mixing your paints with a pallette knife which also ensures the paint is smooth with no lumps. Also if you use a very fine sandpaper after firing that eliminates the roughness. Vegetable turpentine is what is normally used for cleaning brushes.
Thank you, Jessica! What an enthusiastic artist you are, and this is something that I've been wanting to explore for a long, long time. As to why one would choose china paint over underglaze........you can high-fire the glazed product to vitrify the object and then overglaze with vibrant colors. Vibrant underglazes are very expensive and some colors will burn right out over Cone 04. This technique allows for vitrification AND vibrancy.
Great video! Have you had better luck with one or another vendor's product that you've listed above? I'm sure they all use a slightly different formulation in their China paints...
I really don’t understand her comments on brushes...if as someone mentioned you mix your powders with a knife correctly until smooth no gritty feel and then use a good medium (Balsum is the best mixed with a little clove, lavender is good - the medium is critical) and if you take care - I don’t know of anyone that scrubs their brushes. It is a very delicate touch and the medium conditions the brushes. There are specific brushes for each purpose and they are designed to last doing that purpose - delicate brushes are just for applying each thin layer of paint. Depending on the complexity of the design, you might have up to 12-13 or more firings though most are in the 6-8 range - just depends on the intensity of color you desire. I know of folks who have their brushes for years and they guard them with great care. Top brushes will make your painting so much more enjoyable, as will high quality high pigmented paints - whether doing oil, watercolor, acrylics, etc. Your results will be better too. You never want to use good brushes in a water based that you will then use in oils. Keep separate brushes for water and oil and fine china painting brushes especially hand made squirrel you use on china I wouldn't use elsewhere - as I said scrubbing is not a classic technique. It is like good house painting brushes - my grandfather kept his brushes for years (I still have a couple). They were used properly - never allowed to just dry in the sun, were immediately cleaned with high quality linseed oil soap and conditioned with the same high quality linseed oil. Check out solvent free paint website for their no solvent boiled and raw linseed oil (Allback). It is made naturally from the flax plant and the boiled isn’t boiled (none is) but instead of chemicals like you find in big box, oxygen is used to change the properties. Diamond Forest Products has great real natural turpentine / gum spirits harvested from their own trees (like maple syrup is done). In my grandfather’s day (born 1900) - good quality brushes, paints, and cleaning products were at all decent hardware or artist stores. He cleaned his brushes after each use even if they would be used the next day. After dry they were wrapped in paper to keep clean and then hung up by a string or leather cord through the hole in the brush. That is what it was made for. Never store them on their bristles and don’t let them collect dirt and dust. Sitting in solvent or water (if latex) bends the brushes and the bristles will deteriorate, causes the ferrules to rust, causes wood to expand if wood handles, etc. Never get paint up in the top of the brush - just use the lower couple of inches. Take good care of your brushes whether artist, or home use and they will last for years. I have brushes that range from $10 to $50 dollars (one a little more) and I have been using them 20+ years so figure the math of buying a new set every few months vs 20-25 years or more. You have to search high quality out today - you won’t usually find it at big box chain stores nor most of today’s chain craft shops. However, if you research what you want, they may order it for you. BUT, even cheap brushes, if properly used and cared for, will last 10-20 times longer than how most people do today - new ones for every project.
What is spy holes?I am going to set up my kiln in my garage and I was going to open my garage door when I am using the kiln. I am wondering it that’s enough.
You may want to join a free email list that talks about china painting. You can ask any questions you have freely on the email list. The name of the email list is "Porcelain Painters International Online". It's also known as PPIO. They have a website with that name and you can join the email list on the website. The owner of the email list is Marci Blattenberger. If you join this list it will connect you to many china painters and china painting teachers throughout the USA and internationally. I am very impressed with how far you have gotten in china painting on your own! Just want to help you perfect you talent! Tami Durbin
Use artificial/synthetic brush! There are different qualities. Unless you could make one with your own hair o guarantee that the animal envolved is well cared with love. Thanks 🤗
Wow, I like your enthusiasm, however as a china painter, I seriously disagree with most of the info in your video. Decent china painting brushes are expensive and do not get worn out if you are using them properly. I have been using some of mine for more than ten years and they are fine. If you have to sand your work or it is rough. Then you either have dust and debris in your paint, you did not grind your paints smooth, your kiln is not clean or you did not fire hot enough. The statement you made about if you can watercolor you can china paint made me laugh. Mix your paints with thick mineral oil and paint with a mixture of clove, lavender and copaiba oil. You would be able to get a lot more color on your china and do less fires with the right mixture of oil and the right brush. I really wish you would have consulted a china painter before posting a how to video. China painting is a fine art and quickly becoming a lost art. Spreading misinformation is not helpful.
Guess the experts with the expensive brushes don't like you muscling in on their territory, but hey, we plebs further down the food chain appreciate your videos. To me what matters is that your work looks fabulous however you achieve it, and I seriously don't care if they say you are doing everything wrong. Let them scoff, the end results speak for themselves.
@@lynseyadams6584 Nobody is muscling in on anyone's "territory" nor do I consider myself an expert or master. Not scoffing either. And yes her results do speak to the issues I mentioned above. I did not criticize her artwork, I provided some basic beginner information for china painting because I disagree with the information in her video. There are no wrong ways to create art, but there are techniques and tools that help along the way. I stand by my post and agree to disagree with both Ms. Putnam-Phillips and you. The only person who felt the need to make this negative was you.
@Deletea Hoffensteader Hello, sorry but I don't teach. I order my mineral oil from Amazon. Get the thickest viscosity you can find. Best wishes with your painting
I understand your thought, but this is the only video I could find that showed me how to do it from the basics, rather than starting straight on the plate. Also I think she is showing her own version, as she uses decals that go along with her personality and military background. Anyway much love to the both of you. Just didn't see it as spreading misinformation and viewed it more like sharing her way of doing things. I know you don't teach, but please if you are this passionate, take the time out of your day to stop china painting from being a fine art and quickly becoming a lost art, and spend hours editing and planning and making videos to document and to share what you know. Cheers.
Do have any videos we can learn the right way. She is a beginner self taught so yes any traditional taught china painter would be agast. Forge on Lady find you style
Such a great Teacher!
This is exactly what I needed! I stumbled into a whole bunch of China paints, and had no idea how to use them! Thank you!
You can clean your brushes with baby oil, which is much cheaper and does a great job. Great video! I learned quite a bit. Thanks!
I have a kiln, wish to get back to it. Need tutorials to refresh my memory
Thank you
You can save your brushes by mixing your paints with a pallette knife which also ensures the paint is smooth with no lumps. Also if you use a very fine sandpaper after firing that eliminates the roughness. Vegetable turpentine is what is normally used for cleaning brushes.
Thank you, Jessica! What an enthusiastic artist you are, and this is something that I've been wanting to explore for a long, long time.
As to why one would choose china paint over underglaze........you can high-fire the glazed product to vitrify the object and then overglaze with vibrant colors. Vibrant underglazes are very expensive and some colors will burn right out over Cone 04. This technique allows for vitrification AND vibrancy.
good job Jessica and i love your enthusiasm....
Thankyou for your tutorial.You did a great job answering all my questions.👍
This is great! So helpful! Thank you!
I got a diff phone that can't run periscope. IT MAKES ME SO SAD BECAUSE I NEVER SEE YOU ANYMORE!!! At any rate, awesome vid. Love the painting. :D
Why am I watching this. Way to bubbly for 2am. Or pm. 😉
Great video! Have you had better luck with one or another vendor's product that you've listed above? I'm sure they all use a slightly different formulation in their China paints...
I really don’t understand her comments on brushes...if as someone mentioned you mix your powders with a knife correctly until smooth no gritty feel and then use a good medium (Balsum is the best mixed with a little clove, lavender is good - the medium is critical) and if you take care - I don’t know of anyone that scrubs their brushes. It is a very delicate touch and the medium conditions the brushes. There are specific brushes for each purpose and they are designed to last doing that purpose - delicate brushes are just for applying each thin layer of paint. Depending on the complexity of the design, you might have up to 12-13 or more firings though most are in the 6-8 range - just depends on the intensity of color you desire. I know of folks who have their brushes for years and they guard them with great care. Top brushes will make your painting so much more enjoyable, as will high quality high pigmented paints - whether doing oil, watercolor, acrylics, etc. Your results will be better too. You never want to use good brushes in a water based that you will then use in oils. Keep separate brushes for water and oil and fine china painting brushes especially hand made squirrel you use on china I wouldn't use elsewhere - as I said scrubbing is not a classic technique. It is like good house painting brushes - my grandfather kept his brushes for years (I still have a couple). They were used properly - never allowed to just dry in the sun, were immediately cleaned with high quality linseed oil soap and conditioned with the same high quality linseed oil. Check out solvent free paint website for their no solvent boiled and raw linseed oil (Allback). It is made naturally from the flax plant and the boiled isn’t boiled (none is) but instead of chemicals like you find in big box, oxygen is used to change the properties. Diamond Forest Products has great real natural turpentine / gum spirits harvested from their own trees (like maple syrup is done). In my grandfather’s day (born 1900) - good quality brushes, paints, and cleaning products were at all decent hardware or artist stores. He cleaned his brushes after each use even if they would be used the next day. After dry they were wrapped in paper to keep clean and then hung up by a string or leather cord through the hole in the brush. That is what it was made for. Never store them on their bristles and don’t let them collect dirt and dust. Sitting in solvent or water (if latex) bends the brushes and the bristles will deteriorate, causes the ferrules to rust, causes wood to expand if wood handles, etc. Never get paint up in the top of the brush - just use the lower couple of inches. Take good care of your brushes whether artist, or home use and they will last for years. I have brushes that range from $10 to $50 dollars (one a little more) and I have been using them 20+ years so figure the math of buying a new set every few months vs 20-25 years or more. You have to search high quality out today - you won’t usually find it at big box chain stores nor most of today’s chain craft shops. However, if you research what you want, they may order it for you. BUT, even cheap brushes, if properly used and cared for, will last 10-20 times longer than how most people do today - new ones for every project.
YES DON'T CLEAN YOUR BRUSHES LIKE THAT!!!!!
You're the best!!!!
Do u have link where u buy the porcelain powder?
Does the color look the same after it is fired or is it different, as with underglazes? Thanks
It will look more intense - the intensity depends on the color. You build the color to get the delicate finish and look.
Why choose China Paint over underglaze? I know it perhaps the look is different but what is the difference? Thanks, in advance!
it is just an entirely different look. over glazes are softer and more translucent .
Where do u buy your China paint powders
I saw the old powders on ebay, but as she says do as she says not as she does. be careful!
I enjoyed your video. You have a very pretty face! Compliment, not a come on.
Thanks for the video. I was thinking about getting a kiln for china painting. Would it be okay to have it in the basement?
What is spy holes?I am going to set up my kiln in my garage and I was going to open my garage door when I am using the kiln. I am wondering it that’s enough.
min oh Discuss it with the company that manufactured your kiln.
A lot of people recommend having a vent in the kiln.
I want to lern to paint like you , where I can study about dhis, I don't speack well english but I have a little talent
You may want to join a free email list that talks about china painting. You can ask any questions you have freely on the email list. The name of the email list is "Porcelain Painters International Online". It's also known as PPIO. They have a website with that name and you can join the email list on the website. The owner of the email list is Marci Blattenberger. If you join this list it will connect you to many china painters and china painting teachers throughout the USA and internationally. I am very impressed with how far you have gotten in china painting on your own! Just want to help you perfect you talent! Tami Durbin
how we do the true gold lin on porcelain plates
Can I use China paint on other clay bodies othe than porcelain? Yha k you for all the tutorials
Helen
yes you can even use it on bisque and fire but it will shine slightly. u can use it on anything that has a glaze, ceramics, etc.
Use artificial/synthetic brush! There are different qualities. Unless you could make one with your own hair o guarantee that the animal envolved is well cared with love. Thanks 🤗
You are smokin' hot.
Wow, I like your enthusiasm, however as a china painter, I seriously disagree with most of the info in your video. Decent china painting brushes are expensive and do not get worn out if you are using them properly. I have been using some of mine for more than ten years and they are fine. If you have to sand your work or it is rough. Then you either have dust and debris in your paint, you did not grind your paints smooth, your kiln is not clean or you did not fire hot enough. The statement you made about if you can watercolor you can china paint made me laugh. Mix your paints with thick mineral oil and paint with a mixture of clove, lavender and copaiba oil. You would be able to get a lot more color on your china and do less fires with the right mixture of oil and the right brush. I really wish you would have consulted a china painter before posting a how to video. China painting is a fine art and quickly becoming a lost art. Spreading misinformation is not helpful.
Guess the experts with the expensive brushes don't like you muscling in on their territory, but hey, we plebs further down the food chain appreciate your videos. To me what matters is that your work looks fabulous however you achieve it, and I seriously don't care if they say you are doing everything wrong. Let them scoff, the end results speak for themselves.
@@lynseyadams6584 Nobody is muscling in on anyone's "territory" nor do I consider myself an expert or master. Not scoffing either. And yes her results do speak to the issues I mentioned above. I did not criticize her artwork, I provided some basic beginner information for china painting because I disagree with the information in her video. There are no wrong ways to create art, but there are techniques and tools that help along the way. I stand by my post and agree to disagree with both Ms. Putnam-Phillips and you. The only person who felt the need to make this negative was you.
@Deletea Hoffensteader Hello, sorry but I don't teach. I order my mineral oil from Amazon. Get the thickest viscosity you can find. Best wishes with your painting
I understand your thought, but this is the only video I could find that showed me how to do it from the basics, rather than starting straight on the plate. Also I think she is showing her own version, as she uses decals that go along with her personality and military background. Anyway much love to the both of you. Just didn't see it as spreading misinformation and viewed it more like sharing her way of doing things. I know you don't teach, but please if you are this passionate, take the time out of your day to stop china painting from being a fine art and quickly becoming a lost art, and spend hours editing and planning and making videos to document and to share what you know. Cheers.
Do have any videos we can learn the right way. She is a beginner self taught so yes any traditional taught china painter would be agast. Forge on Lady find you style
get to the point too blah