Re: Gift Idea w/ Alt. Photo / Photoceramic??? -Forwarded

FotoDave@aol.com
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 22:44:00 -0400 (EDT)

<< But all alt.processes can be applied to ceramics. Try to fire a regular
cyanotype, kallitype, silver nitrate. You will need to know a little more
about the ceramic processes and chemistry in order to achieve something
significant, but hopefully, for the purpose of a gift, you will be pleased.
It might go wrong too.
>>

Well, thanks for all the feedback, but I am afraid I must give up photoceramic
as a gift for now (since I will have only 2 weeks to learn and then one week
to actually do it).

I originally thought I would go to one of those ceramic stores (one of them is
called "You Are Fired" overhere, it's funny when they answer the phone) that
sells ready-made greenware or bisquet (?) and then you can apply color to them
and then bring them in again for firing. I thought that once I know how to
apply one color, then I can do a simple dichromated image. I was even thinking
about using a computer printout as negative and use coarse dots, so it will be
easy to print because I only need to print dots, basically.

However, one store was very unfriendly and said that it would be very
complicated and would cost a lot to buy all the equipments and supplies in
order to just make one mug. I told her I didn't need to be perfect and could
use simple tool or sandpaper (the mugs don't have that much imprefection
anyway) and I already have my brushes, but she didn't listen and gave me nasty
look.

The other store is friendly but the structure is you go there and paint there
using their brush and paints, so it won't work for my case.

Maybe I will look around for a few more, or maybe I just have to give up.

But thanks anyway for all inputs!

Dave