The ultimate guide to the potential of ceramic transfer printing as a creative medium.This book is ideal for anyone wishing to combine ceramics with print and transfers, a very exciting area which has enormous scope for creativity. Ceramic transfers or decals are one of the prime methods of decorating industrially-made ceramics. They also offer exciting creative potential for studio-based artists or designer-makers. A ceramic transfer is traditionally made by printing ceramic ink onto a special paper and allows pictures, patterns or text to be transferred onto ceramic forms - 2D and 3D. Importantly, print can achieve distinct aesthetic effects on ceramics that are not possible by using other decoration methods such as hand painting. Drawing on over twenty years of experience, Kevin Petrie offers a focused analysis of the potential of ceramic transfer printing as a creative medium. Discover the specific materials and techniques for making versatile screen-printed ceramic transfers - from the 'low tech' to the more sophisticated. In this book, you can also explore other approaches by artist researchers as well as recent developments with digital transfers. A range of case studies shows the potential and diversity of the transfer printing approach in this area, which extends beyond ceramics to include printing on enamel, metal and glass.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. What is a ceramic transfer? 2. A historical overview 3. How ceramic transfer prints look: methods and aesthetics 4. Materials for ceramic transfer printing 5. Screen-printed waterslide transfers: the basics 6. Some 'low-tech' approaches to using screenprinting 7. Extending the potential of screenprinting: 'photographic' stencils 8. Integrating form and image: one artist's approach 9. Digital transfers 10. Revisiting early transfer printing methods 11. Transfer printing and enamel on metal 12. Transfers and glass Conclusion Suppliers Further reading Index
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