Painting Pottery with Puff Underneath

Video Transcript

"Okay, so in this segment what I'm going to show you is how to do a technique using puff but we're going to do puff underneath paint. And then we're going to take a glaze and paint on top. This is a really neat effect that can add a tremendous amount of texture to your piece without having to do a lot of detail. So what sometimes people do is they'll draw themselves sort of an outline of a picture. And then all you want to do is follow it with your puff paint. I'm just going to go freehand and just sort of make little doodles. But I can sort of show you what we sort of want to do. So all I'm going to do is I'm just going to do random little lines to sort of create little drifts. And the nice thing about the puff paint is it actually will stay raised and will allow you to have that really nice popped out texture. And it's really tactile and kids and adults alike will love to handle your piece. And it's really great because the puff underneath allows you so many different options. You want to make sure when you're using your puff paint to keep the nozzle clean as well. So if you find you're getting paint collecting around the tip just give it a little wipe, normally on paper towel, although I always use my apron. And just make sure it's clean so you don't get any globby lines. So I'm just going to sort of make random little dots and lines. So this is going to be on the white background. And then we're going to apply a glaze on top. And like I said, there are lots of different options. You can use a number of different glazes which would give you range of techniques after it's been fired. So we're going to dry this up and then we'll paint on top and I'll show you want to do next. So now that our puff paint has dried. What we're going to do is we're going to apply paint on top. Now this is where it gets pretty important. When you're applying the paint on top make sure that you are sponging. Sponging is one of the best ways. Because soon as you put wet paint on top of your puff paint it'll sort of reactivate and make the puff paint wet again. And if you're brushing, that sort of agitation will flatten out your puff paint and you really want to keep it nice and raised so you can get that nice texture after it's been fired. So I always suggest to customers that they sponge on their paint on top of the puff. So all I've doing is I'm taking a nice light orange and I'm going to sponge right on top of all the designs that I just did. And really you want to saturate your sponge and just give it a good bounce all over the piece. Sometimes I get customers that really, really love to sort of drag their sponge along their piece. And really you're not going to be applying a lot of paint that way so you really want to just sort of bounce it all over your piece and you'll be able to see the designs that I've done underneath and you can sort of make them as crazy and wild or as simple as possible. So after it's fired, what's going to happen is these colors are going to really pop out and you're really going to see all that texture underneath. And it'll be really, really nice to show. And that's how we do puff underneath."