Anna Chicos

Anna uses the simplest form of tissue transfer to make drawings to be transferred to the leatherhard clay surface - in Anna's case onto white porcelain. After firing or glazing she uses additions of gold lustre to highlight some areas as in the following pictures of her work.

The process uses few materials and tools

• Dip a wet hake brush into water then into into a pot of powdered underglaze (usually black but any colour works)
• Brush this onto a smooth tile or glass sheet to a uniform deposit of pigment on the tile
• Allow this to dry
• Tape tissue paper over the pigment without touching the paper
• Draw with various thicknesses and hardnesses of pencils and implements over the tissue.
  
• The pigment is transferred from the pencil lines onto the underside of the tissue
• Trim off the tissue and transfer to the clay surface, sweep with a rubber kidney to complete the transfer of pigment.