Bijoux Porcelain is Japanese Tissue Transfer decoration and is very straight forward and not at all difficult. You roll out your porcelain, cut your chosen shape and then wet down your chosen transfer paper onto the clay. And pretty much done. Unless you stick your transfer on upside down...which I did. But only once and in the end the design still showed up okay (it was the itty bitty rectangles you can see towards the bottom right of my picture.)
Definitely a nice day course to take for something a little different but still stress free. And at the end you have whatever you made to be turned into brooches, jewellery or decorations for yourself or for gifts. The class included a very brief history of porcelain, instructions about what to do and then we were let loose to do what we wanted with Steven watching on, giving tips and assistance as required.
We could create as must as possible in out allotted time and the course fees were inclusive of all the materials we needed and the firing.
And behold my creations @@!
The buttons on the left are extreme rush jobs, I wanted to get as much out of the class as possible.They turned out okay though some of the button holes are a bit squished none are fully unusable.
My work and someone else’s;
placed onto the firing tray ready to go in the kiln:
And a week later ready to be picked up.
I don't have a photo of mine (thought they looked much and much as the unfired pictures above just whiter) but here is some by other's in the class, really such a good idea for Christmas decorations. You can also make beads as shown below.
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