It is a great idea but the colour selection is lacking vibrant pastels & neon pastels! 😅 I’ve always been disappointed with the selection of pottery paints every time I’ve taken a class or done it at camp. Like why is there always red & peach & nude but never PINK?!?! 😫 👀 k I’m done 🙈
That’s because they don’t really exist! Essentially a lot of colours don’t hold up in the extreme temperatures of the kiln firings. These are as extreme as they kind of get without mixing and changing the colours up. It’s really frustrating, but neons don’t work and vibrant pastels need to be custom mixed but even then you can unbalance the pigment chemistry and it can still not be nice. If you would like to paint something in pastels it’s best to do something non functional where it can be sculptural and use an acrylic paint instead
I just think it is cool that you dip into the glaze & it looks like you have covered all the colors with white, but they come out shiny with bold, bright, and beautiful colors. 🎉😮🎉
Glazes do be like that. I've been taking ceramics this school year, and hoo boy the glazes get weird. (So many people were using tenmoku (a really dark brown-ish color) at the end of this semester, that the floor was absolutely covered in red dust from the red iron oxide used to make the glaze. And the iron oxide is like impossible to remove from clothes and other pieces if you accidentally touch them)
It's because the clear glaze is almost all silica, without added colorants -- and silica melts into glass! Silica powder is white so that's why the unfired glaze is an opaque white I think glaze chemistry is so fascinating and cool
Yeah, it's always neat to see. My school has clear glazes that appear as a light pink and a light aqua color before firing (the aqua ones smell like a zoo, tho)
Coat tiles are so helpful! Whenever I’ve gone to a place to paint pottery, they don’t have that and I don’t always put enough coats to get the look I want.
I was an art student when I was in college. These color swatches are just very satisfying to my brain. It reminds me of a color theory class project. ❤
I am a big time pastel girl, ever since I could remember and your videos and all the colour palettes bring instant soothing to my eyes. When I was in my teen and pre teen days, I would always want pastel frocks and skirts, but unfortunately where I grew up bright colours were popular and in demand and getting pastels were difficult! But now, here I am able to fulfil all my pastel dress dreams! Love from Sydney
my daddy used to bring me to a pottery studio caller Glazed Over. it was one of our favorite things to do together! this video reminds me of that studio. they even had gift cards made out of tile!
I used to work at a ceramic painting place (kids bday parties/camps/etc.) and we had swatch plates and they are SOOO helpful. I quite miss being able to sit and paint samples for the wall
You are so clever Shelby, very helpful and somehow also cute... How come everything you make ends up being cute? Magnetic glaze samples and a dotted plate!
Great respect! It is so difficult to merge together, to combine pure creativity and calculating logical thinking, and to do it so beautifully! thanks for sharing)
My goodness after firing and glazing those colors really get vibrant - they were barely noticeable, the reason you were doing multiple layers, but once you've through the entire process, the saturation (and to a lesser extent also value, even hue as the white background shines through less) changes - these are soooo pretty, lovely done ♡ ^&^
Am I the only one who likes the muted pastel colors before pottery gets cured? I’d be soo happy with my creation even if it was muted, I always loved muted colors.
There is a pottery coloring shop near me and they also had tiles with a “one coat” side and like a “three coat side” so you could see how the glaze layered It’s a great idea, I like that yours had a thing for 1, 2, and 3 coats!
I desperately wish I could have a resource like your new studio here near me in the states, you have thought so deeply into the creative process in offering all of these swatches
THANK YOU!! I always struggled with pottery because I'm a very visual person, and if I can't see what the color will look like after so I know what I'm going for, I get incredibly anxious, especially since I work primarily digitally. Having these would actually help so much encouraging me not to be afraid of the final result
This is brilliant. The first time I painted a pot the colors confused me so much I just accepted that pastel was the only option so I changed all of my plans for my piece to accommodate a muted product and then WHAM was I wrong - but the sadness was there was no do over.
This so HELPFUL! I wish I had this during my pottery class! I knew it would change but I really wanted to see exactly how it would look I ended up doing a black and put on so many layers it was actually impressive how nice it turned out but I secretly wish it was less intense
that is so cool! as a person who loves to go to pottery painting places similars to yours i find this so cool to see the process. one thing that i think could be really cool is the place i go to uses animals like a peacock to display the colors (peacocks are like the animal of the area or smth idk) i think it would be so cool if you gave that a shot with an animals or object that reflects onto where you are or something about the place! either way so cool and thanks for letting me share an idea
I’d sculpted some porcelain flowers once, and I was using a water color like under glaze that hadn’t be used before. I thought it was getting a lovely magenta color, and after the firing it turned bright blue! It’s still lovely, but it was quite a surprise! Color swatches are so useful, because what you see is not always what you get!
That piece breaking made me think "Kintsugi." Such a fascinating technique andt a beautiful way to repair broken pottery!! Your work is absolutely wonderful :)
I went to a pottery place similar that had the paint swatches on each table! It really helped me get the design I wanted for my peice and I've never been more proud of my own painting work😁
I wish I lived nearby! Maine, USA isn't close enough. But I am wishing you great success. You will have customers out the door if your lines at the market days are any indication. You probably will need appointment books!
Many congratulations to you for having such a smart and intelligent pottery studio. I'm also like this and as a customer I'd love to be a student/customer at such a studio.
This is such a smart idea! I remember when i was younger i went to a local flea market with my grandma and painted ceramics with acrylic and once with the firing paint. I felt bad i had to ask the lady to help me find what color would match the colors in my photo of our old family bird. It turned out to be a beautiful vase with 2 birds on it.
