Creating a Patchwork Effect on Pottery

Video Transcript

"In this segment, I would like to show you how to do a patchwork design. So patchwork design is a really fun and extremely popular technique that seen in studios everywhere. It simply is color blocking then you create almost like a stitching with textured puff paints. It is very loose and very playful. You don't needs a ruler, you can use one if you want to. You need a nice square brush. I have to different kinds of square brushes that I will be using. These will be the widths of my blocks. I?m not going to worry about straight lines. I'll show you how to make a rough grid. You can pre draw and map out where you want your rectangles, squares, triangles and squiggle shapes go. Make sort of a color block here. I might use the same purple and go up here. Then I am going to jump to a green and go right next. You might create another green space right next to my purple. I'm just going to clean off my brush and grab some other colors. And all your doing, is starting to layer up different sections of color. You can do this real roughly because we are going to go back and do our stitching which will clean up any of our lines and make them look more defined. We can also play around with doing designs inside all of our patches. So, again like I said I am doing this a really roughly. You can be a little more constructive when you are doing yours. So I am just taking a bunch of different colors and creating different blocks. You can sort of start to get the idea. What I am going to do know, I am going to simply do some stitching. So, I am going to take the dimensional paint, what I call puff paint. Simply start to make stitches. To do that just lightly pull up, squeezing very lightly. It's neat when you?re doing patchwork to play around with a different amount of coats. So generally with pottery glazes, you want to do three good coats to get opaque coverage. But with something like patchwork, you can play around and maybe do one patch with one coat and have another patch with two or three and sort of get those different colors throughout it. You can sort of see you patches are coming together. We sort of just keep going with our stitches until we are happy. It's great because patchwork has so much variety within it. Your stitches does not have to be black, it can be blue, it can be yellow and you can sort play with it however you want. You can also use other color of puff paint to sort of create different designs like dots or squiggles or hearts. You can write someone?s name within each patch or can write lyrics to a song you like, you can write those in to all of theses. Just sort of create it your own. It is really nice that patchwork can be so diverse. So I am just going to quickly finish up here and then you will be able to see the finished product."