Photos to ceramic – a peculiar question

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I dabble in ceramics (pottery) and love experimenting. What I want to do is transfer a photo directly onto wet clay before the first firing. I’ve done monoprints using oxides but for this I think a light-sensitive emulsion is required. Would something like bichromate work? I guess that it’d need mixing with something sticky, honey or a sugar solution perhaps :shrug:

I’d be really grateful if anyone could offer advice.
 
Gum bichromate might work, although I dont know if the gum arabic would survive the firing. A liquid emulsion would die in a kiln, being based on gelatine.

Carbon transfer might (!!!) be possible, I don't know enough about the process to tell you if it will survive the firing, only that it is a pita.

You can get coatings for things to go through inkjet printers to print on sheet metal and things, but I don't know if it is heat proof, and the printers capable of taking flat media tend to be fairly expensive

Someone else might be able to advise differently, but I'm not sure it could be done for conventional photography


EDIT: maybe the cyanotype process could work, it is iron based, with no gelatine, although the liquid may soak into the clay too much
 
Ahhh, well.........my head is full of incomplete crap....

Polaroids that produce 2 objects, a negative PRINT, and a positive FILM that can be grafted onto ceramics/plastic/wood stuffs.

Its the bit that is discarded usually, but its a positive.

I shall investigate, but somebody else at this forum knows exactly what I'm babbling about..:D




Polaroid transfer is a photographic image-transfer process, or print making technique, which uses Polaroid film. This way an image can be put on textiles, cups, glass and many other surfaces.


course.......you have to shoot the pic on polaroid first..
 
how about starting with the iron-on tee-shirt picture technology :shrug:
 
I really appreciate everyone’s input and had hoped to respond with a pic of my brilliantly successful ceramic experiment, hence the reason for not replying sooner.

I regret to say that it was probably the most epic fail ever and quite hilarious – what was supposed to be a vessel depicting a perfectly crisp photograph of a Greyhound came out of the kiln looking like something that Hermann Rorschach’s subjects would’ve found “challenging”! :cuckoo:

Entirely my own fault – the advice given here was all good but I was too thick to take it onboard and apply it properly. I will try again later in the week! :thumbs:

Thank you again and watch this space……I’m determined to nail this thing even if it takes me a lifetime :bat:
 
i wish i had the patience to do something like this.....

looking forward to seeing the results (good and bad!!)

good luck
 
How are you getting on Alison? What is the reason for adding the photo before the firing and not after?
 
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