Ceramic Test Tiles

What Art Test Tiles?

Test Tiles are a Way of Seeing How
Your Surface Treatments will look
BEFORE You Use them on Your
Artwork.

Stages of Clay:
1. Placid: What We Use to Construct and Model
2. Leather Hard: Halfway Dry and Good for Carving
3. Bone Dry: Air Dried and Ready for the Kiln
4. Bisque: Fired In the Kiln ONCE
5. Glazed: Fired In the Kiln TWICE with Glaze on
surface, Makes The Surface Waterproof

Kinds of Surface Treatments:

Kinds That Go In The Kiln For BISQUE Fire:
-Slip
-Underglaze
Kinds That Go In The Kiln For GLAZE Fire:
-Glaze

Kinds of Surface Treatments:

Kinds That DO NOT Go In The Kiln:
-Oil pastels
-Tempera paint
-Watercolor paint

Ways To Apply Slip/Underglaze

Paint on with a Brush

Squeeze Bottle

Paper Stencil

TEXTURE ROULETTES
Texture Roulettes Are Dowels that Can Be Rolled Across the Clay Surface to Create Texture

For This Assignment:

On EIGHT Different Tiles, You Will Experiment With:
-Tempra Paint

-Paper Resist

-Watercolor Paint

-Squeeze Bottles

-Oil Pastels

-Paint Brushes

-Slip

-Sgraffito

-Underglaze

-Texture Roulette of YOUR OWN

MAKING!!!
-At LEAST two other Textured
Tiles