Overglaze Info!
Overglaze, China Paint, Porcelain Paint
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The dying art form that is dying for no reason. The mysterious vials of strange powders your grandma hoards. Let me demystify the medium for you!
Why am I doing this?
For context, I learned about overglaze at NCECA 2025 in Salt Lake City; one of the last panels was about overglaze and china painting. I learned that the medium is essentially the weird lovechild of watercolor, oil painting, and ceramics. I was about to get my BFA in ceramics and painting a month later, and somehow I had never heard of the medium! Stunned, I decided after I graduated I would learn more about the medium
I am also kind of crazy. I knew that learning about a medium where most information is given to you vocally or through now out-of-print books would be challenging. Almost all information online is filled with broken links, defunct companies, and websites no longer updated because the owner passed away from old age.
But learning and sharing information is everything to me. I love answering my students questions on clay and glaze chemistry, sharing useful techniques so their pieces don't blow up in the kiln, and giving them advice to help make their projects the best they could ever be - even if it means adding some mixed media elements.
My hope is that with this information on overglaze that is open to the public and FREE(!!!), more people will engage with the art form. At the end of the day, it's a glaze. Always keep that in mind.