Halloween porcelain painting with Tim Holtz figures

It was time to make some porcelain paintings for Halloween. For making the patterns for the painting I used the Sizzix Halloween dies designed by Tim Holtz. 

Now I show you how I made them step by step.

1. I cut out the shapes using the following dies:

Sizzix Bigz Die, Bewitching Hour by Tim Holtz (657005)

Sizzix Bigz Die, Raven&Scaredy Cat by Tim Holtz (656928)

Sizzix Movers&Shapers, Mini Owl&Crescent Moon (658725)

2. I took a clean plate.

3. I outlined the shapes with a porcelain paint marker.

4. I coloured the shape with brush and black porcelain paint. First I made just a thin layer.

5. When it dried I put another layer black paints.

6. I drew little bats around the edges.

7. I used the same technique to colour the bats.

8. When it was finished I stole my daughter's Rebelle foam bullet (shhh... don't tell her!) to make dots with purple and orange paints.

9. Then I started to make another plate.

10. Onto this place I made smaller dots too with a small size brush.

11. I put them into the oven for 90 minutes at 160 ℃.

Handmade painted porcelain - Easter plate with bunny and eggs

I think for this season I stop making porcelain painting. I prepared this plate because I had made a big amount of grey paint for my workshop this morning and I didn't want to threw away all.

For painting this plate I used a cookie cutter and I drew the outline of the shape with a soft graphite pencil. And I filled the part between the lines with the paint.

I cut out the egg template from a paper.

I painted the grass and the clouds with freehand.

I used Hobby Line paints because I could bake them in the oven.

My other blogpost in this subject:

DIY porcelain painting - Easter plate with bunny and dots

Painting porcelain

DIY porcelain painting - Easter plate with bunny and dots

For the Easter porcelain painting I have bought Hobby Line paints because I can bake it in the oven at 160 degree. For me it looks safer than the only air-drying paints. Pebeo also has porcelain paints which need baking.

Because of the upcoming Easter I wanted to paint something seasonal.  Since I didn't buy special templates for the porcelain painting I used my cookie cutter as a template.

Just to make sure I drew the plate with my imagined plan.

I put several coats of green paint on the bunny to make it darker, but I always waited to dry the previous coat before I painted another one.

My other blogposts in this subject:

Handmade painted porcelain - Easter plate with bunny and eggs

Painting porcelain

Painting porcelain

Last week we visited the Villeroy&Boch Ceramic Museum in Mettlach. We'd already been there about 2 years ago, but we hadn't take the opportunity to paint a plate for 3 euros only. But last Monday Eszter and I, we both painted plates.

Eszter had a plan at home to paint a plate with full of hearts. I like the colours she chose.

And I wanted to paint my marzipan Christmas cake. So I had printed the picture of my cake from my blog and I began to paint with this.

While we were looking at the exhibition the plates dried.  But after, at home we had to bake them in the oven at 160 degrees for 90 minutes. With this the paint is permanent and dishwasher safe. 

Now I decided to buy some colours of porcelain paint and start to decorate our china at home :-)




My other blogposts in this subject:

Handmade painted porcelain - Easter plate with bunny and eggs

DIY porcelain painting - Easter plate with bunny and dots