Original Submission Form in the Amateur Artist Certification Lesson Book

Lesson #1 Penwork Assignment

  1. Create a porcelain artwork where penwork is used as outline or border.

2. Create a porcelain artwork where penwork is the focal point.

Lesson #2 Lettering Assignment

Create a simple porcelain artwork including creative lettering and expressive lettering (can be two artworks, one for each type of lettering) .

Lesson #3About porcelain painting Assignment

1. Describe 3 kinds of mediums you have used. Show them in a photograph with description.

2. Describe how you mix powdered paint with medium to make usable paint?

  1. What brushes you have used and for what purposes have you used them?

Show them in a photograph with description.

How to preserve them so that they are good for use in the future?

  1. Name 3 tools you have used.
  1. Tell how you paint on china in a safe and healthy manner?
  1. Use drying medium, paint a brush stroke study on a plastic sheet.

a.3 straight flat strokes – a short, a middle and a long stroke to show proper loading of brush

b.a “Comma”, “Reverse Comma”, Diamond, and Dot stroke with flat shader

c.a “C stroke” and a “Reverse C stroke” with both flat shader and round brush

d. 2 side loaded strokes (left load and right load)

e. a vast area of gradation.

f.paint a simple leaf with curve strokes

g. paint a small flower with curve strokes

h. additional brush strokes

  1. What temperature or cone do you use for firing your projects?

What special care do you use if you are firing Bone China?

How hot do you fire red colors?

Lesson #4 Still life Assignment

Paint an original still life design on porcelain. Show you have mastered the blending of brush strokes in the painting.

Lesson #5 Composition and elements of art Assignment

Paint a porcelain art with a simple design. Describe how you apply the elements of art into the painting.

Lesson #6 Textures Assignment

Create a design and paint on porcelain to show the textures of the subject matter or use textures in a border or background.

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Lesson #7 Painting on 3-D objects Assignment

Create a simple design and paint on porcelain a 3-D object such as a box, a mug, a cup or a teapot.

Create a simple design and paint on a porcelain vase

Lesson #8 Creativity Assignment

Use any techniques that you have learnt and create a porcelain painting of your own design that you are proud of, be imaginative and creative.

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