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Most Important!
WASH YOUR HANDS!
Do not eat food while painting, food/hand oils WILL damage your piece!
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DO NOT WRITE ON YOUR PIECE IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN H, H1, or H3 PENCILS.
You cannot use pens, sharpies, markers, or HB (regular) pencils as they will not burn off in the kiln and will likely damage your piece.
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THICK PAINT CAN CRACK OFF DURING FIRING.
Please smooth out any thick paint, and do not pour the paint or drip it onto the piece.
Please review before you start...
Only use the paints provided.
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Our paints are NON TOXIC and fully WATER SOLUBLE. They are 100% safe for kids, and if things get messy, the paint will wash out with water.
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Please identify your piece!
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Putting your name, the date, a symbol, or a short message on the bottom is helpful for our team to correctly identify your item after the firing process.
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Please be sure to sign with PAINT, NOT A SHARPIE OR PEN.
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3 Thin coats of paint work best
With each layer, your brush strokes will be less and less visible, and your paint will look more solid. The paint looks very light and chalky before firing, so don’t be alarmed if your red looks pink. It’ll be bright and shiny when you pick it up after firing.
Layering Colours
If you’re doing a BASE COAT, or if you are layering colours, you can do 2 thin coats for your base, and 2 more thin coats on top. Because the paint is transparent, your base coat colour may affect the colours that you paint on top. A pink over a blue background will turn purple during firing. If you want your light colours to stay bright, paint them on first then paint your darker colours around them afterwards.
You can mix the colours also, if you like. Since the paint is water soluble, you can also use water to thin out the paint and treat it like watercolour.
We dip everything in a clear glaze before firing, so the entire thing will be glazed in the end. That said - even if you want your background to be white, please paint it white. Especially for functional pieces that you expect to use heavily (mugs, bowls, plates) it’s strongly recommended to paint 3 coats over everything, including the inside, to make the piece more durable and to prevent “thermal shock” from boiling water, which can cause fine cracks to appear on the surface of the glaze over time.
THICK PAINT CAN CRACK OFF DURING FIRING.
Please smooth out any thick paint, and do not pour the paint or drip it onto the piece.
OOPS!
If you ever make a mistake, good news! You can wash it off with a clean damp sponge or a clean wet brush. Once the paint becomes transparent during firing, anything that is hidden underneath might become visible, so be sure to erase anything you don’t want to stick around!
It’s a good idea to let the paint dry between coats.
You can use a hair dryer to speed things up, or just do a coat of each of your colours, and by the time you’re ready to do your second coat of your first colour, it should be dry. You’ll notice that the paint becomes chalky and light once it’s dry.