At Last! Image Transfer Success

 I've been trying intermittently to figure out this underglaze image transfer technique. My transferred image has always degraded badly - large sections not transferring at all, or areas turning into blobs. Recently an artist I follow on instagram - Janna Dewan, a master of image transfer - shared a brief video depicting her process. This allowed me to see what I've been doing wrong! In short: I was either trying to transfer too dry or too wet. 
The line drawing - the first layer - must get bone dry. The color layer must get bone dry. The white slip layer - the background - must dry to a leatherhard sheen. No additional water added to the newspaper, please! (I was SURE that I was supposed to saturate the newspaper with a wet sponge. Nope!) I had been missing the pony roller step. 

You can see more pics of my efforts in this post for paid subscribers at my Patreon, but tbh (lol I told you I suck at sales!) you can probably get what you need to know from Janna's video. Try it out & let me know how it goes! 

Prevent Warping with this One Weird Trick!

One Weird Trick is a recurring feature at my Patreon page, usually for paid subscribers; this particular trick is so useful I wanted to make sure as many potters as possible saw it. The newspaper traps a pocket of air inside the pot, and also lends stiffness to the rim, allowing you to get it off the wheel without creating a distortion that the clay might later "remember," even if you re-round the rim. 

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