Decal demo

Although I'm not using any decal for my project, I thought it'll be a good idea to document it non the less. the series of photos shows how you go about with the process.

Well, before you can do any transfering of images, you first have to send of the image that you want to get transferred and wait until it gets back to you..

When it arrives...

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You first cut out the image that you want to use off away from all the other ones. Carefull not to cut off too much or too little off the page, as you can imgine, the image wouldn't be exact if you don't have a carful hand.

You then soak the piece of transfer in water

You know that the transfer is ready to use when the little page straightens out in the water and doesn't roll up into a tube anymore.

When the transfer is ready, you pick the piece of paper out of the water.

You place it on top of where you want the image to be, and slowly pull out the paper our from underneath the blue bit of paper.

[*You can only put transfers onto a glazed surface]

and there it is that you can see :)

You have to make sure that you have all water getten rid off from under the blue. Using a rubber kidney probably is the easiest way to do so.

Also, the indentation in the inside of the bowl makes it hard to not to distort the image, however, if you're careful and gentle enough, you'll probably be able to succeed on beign a neat freak.

Our Tutor gave us another demo for the transferring straight after the last one for it was hard to see the inside of the bowl for some poeple. This time he used a flat based thing so everyone can look at and document what is going on.

Getting the decal ready

Placing it on top og the glazed surface of your choice.

Slowly pulling the piece of paper from under the blue part..

Carefully...

At the end, if there's any bits sticking out of the glazed surface, scrape the sticking out bits off.

After this demo, our Tutor told us that he doesn't quite like decal firing, and I agree with him on this because I don't see how slapping on a picture onto a piece of Ceramic is that much fun when you could instead explore and have fun with glazes and paints and things that'll actually come out from your own self. However, that is that and this is this. I'd say I will try out some Decal firing in the next couple of years, and you can't deny something when you haevn't even tried it yet.