Back in the days of ancient civilizations, painting plates and utensils has become a real art. Then women were engaged in decorating ceramics, today both men and children are passionate about decorating dishes. Everything about painting dishes - methods, features, life hacks, tips, read on.

History reference

At least 6,000 years ago ceramic products patterns and ornamentation appeared. Most likely, the decoration of dishes originated earlier, but it was this period of history that archaeologists were able to clearly fix. Plates, mugs, various utensils were decorated with magic circles, interesting lines, mysterious patterns. Images of people, animals and plants can also be seen on objects found during excavations.

Neolithic pottery

The painting was thematic: if, for example, a ceramic dish was intended for fruits, an ancient craftsman depicted fruits on it. It must be said that in ancient times plates were used only for serving dishes, there were no personal plates - food was placed immediately on a piece of bread. But the dishes on which the main course was laid out had to be impressive.

It is believed that thanks to the painting of plates, the art generally. The plots became more complicated, the details were perfected, the craftsmen were looking for new color possibilities and thought out skillful patterns and ornamental decor.

Basic painting techniques

There are many techniques that are used in painting. But in the top 4 basic ones are the famous dot, painting according to patterns and stencils, painting with brushes and markers. Each direction can be subdivided into narrower ones. There are also combined techniques.

dot painting

If you decide to start painting plates, you can make a whole panel of beautifully designed dishes with your own hands, which will decorate one of the walls of the house. And you can start with the development of point technique (or point-to-point). A dotted scattering forms an ornament that resembles decorating an object with beads or rhinestones.

We invite you to watch the video, which presents a set for spot painting and a master class on painting a plate.

Why start with this technique? It does not require special artistic training. Even if the paint is in your hands last time taken at school, it is unlikely that the first test will be unsuccessful. The main thing in this matter is patience, perseverance, concentration.

It is also important to observe three basic conditions:

• 1. An equal distance should be maintained between the points - the smaller, the more technical and perfect the work.
• 2. The size of the dots correlates with the size of the details of the composition.
• 3. The basis of success is the competent consistency of the paint and the firm hand of the artist.

This dish is unlikely to be used, but it is ideal as an interior decor. The dot technique involves the standard stages of work: applying a thin layer of primer to the plate, directly painting (with acrylic paints), coating with a varnish layer.

Painting plates on stencils and patterns

And this is also the optimal painting of plates with acrylic paints for beginners. First, you print a stencil (or buy it), make holes in it with a clerical knife. And this, do not be surprised, is the most difficult part of the work. Next, you should degrease the surface of the dishes, fix the template with adhesive tape to its bottom.

After that, there is a coloring or tamping of a pattern on a stencil. On the finished picture, you can (optionally) draw details or a contour. If you decide to paint with acrylic paints, then you can dry them naturally, or using a hair dryer or oven.

Art painting by hand with brushes

This technique is not so simple, but the result is quite impressive. For work, art brushes of different sizes, acrylic "landing" (paints on glass and ceramics) are required, stained glass baked paints can also be used.

First, the master makes underpainting - draws large parts of the composition on the plate. Then he adds volume and depth with the correct arrangement of light and dark colors, after which he is engaged in drawing details. It is easier for novice artists to start with painting with matte glaze, the paint lays on it more evenly. Glossy ceramics and glass require skill, they test the artist's "strength".

Painting with markers on ceramics

Do-it-yourself painting of decorative dishes may also involve the use of such self-sufficient artistic tools as markers. The better the selected felt-tip pens and markers, the more accurate the image will be.

This technique has its own rules:

• before painting, the surface requires degreasing;
• lines and contours need to be drawn in small and frequent strokes - so there is less risk of making a mistake;
• drawing develops according to the principle "from the general to the particular".

The technique also allows the use of templates and stencils. Most of the art markers dry in a day, do not need to be fired, and even in a dishwasher, a new pattern on a plate or cup is not erased.

Painting stages

If you decide to start painting mugs with acrylic paints, check out the planning creative work All steps must follow each other.

Generalized stages of painting:

• 1. Degreasing dishes - alcohol or window cleaner is suitable for this purpose.
• 2. Definition of technique. If there is a template / stencil, they need to be prepared and pasted with tape on a plate. If you are doing spot painting, you can pre-draw it with a special pencil.
• 3. Paint the dishes, slowly and checking the paint, brushes (or markers on paper).
• 4. Leave to dry for 24 hours. Next, put a plate in a cold oven, wait for the oven to heat up to 150 degrees, set the timer for half an hour and leave to bake. Then turn off the oven and let the product cool in it. Everything is ready!

If the dishes are strictly decorative, they can be varnished (and glitter varnish too).

Do-it-yourself plate painting for beginners: a master class

If you have a simple glass plate, without patterns and patterns, you can transform it yourself. A simple master class will help you with this.

You need:

• glass plate (white ceramic is also possible);
• synthetic brushes, long thin and with a sharp tip No. 25;
• acrylic paints - pink, blue, white and green;
• degreaser.

Prepare a plate, wash, degrease, dry. Make sure and workplace ready - space for creativity is no less important than quality materials and tools. Work in good light.

• 1. Add acrylic blue and pink to the palette, mix.
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  2. With this color, randomly draw balls on a plate, which will later become roses. Small balls - small roses, large ones will turn into larger flowers.
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  3. Let the work dry a little. After that to purple add white to the palette.
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  4. Dip the brush in the resulting color, put it with the tip on a plate, in the selected drawn ball. You lead in the right direction, you need to press on the brush so that it leaves an imprint in the form of a thick bow. At the end, slowly lift the brush so that the tail remains. This is how you shape the rose. The dark initial base (ball) will peek out from behind the loose petals.
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  5. Do work such as drawing petals with each ball.
• 6. Dilute blue and green on the palette so that some of the blue remains intact. Dip a thick brush in green, and the tip in blue (or vice versa), put strokes near the roses. These will be leaves.
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  7. With green acrylic, but with a thin brush, draw grass between the roses, thin tendrils. The pattern should be thick, the unpainted part of the plate should be small - only in the middle.
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  8. Add white to the lilac paint on the palette. Since the roses have already dried up considerably, put small arcuate smears of light pink color on the lilac fragments of the rose - they will create volume. With white, draw thin antennae to the grass, and outline the veins on the leaves.

That's all! You can varnish the plate after it dries. But then it will not be suitable for its intended use. If we take stained glass paints for baking instead of acrylic, and then bake a plate, it is quite suitable for culinary purposes.

Necessary materials for painting

What you will paint the plates with depends on the painting technique that you have chosen. Perhaps you like traditional Russian Khokhloma and Gzhel, or maybe the tiffany technique (three-dimensional painting) or an integral composition will be interesting. Recently, lettering on a plate has also been in favor, when words and inscriptions are applied to it.

The main materials are:

• Alcohol or degreaser - without it, work cannot be started.
• Paints. Two preferred options: acrylic and stained glass paints. Acrylic needs to be varnished, if you wash a painted plate, all the paint will come off. Stained glass paints require subsequent baking.
• Markers. Go to an art supply store for a good selection of art markers. It is a pleasure to work with them, and if you initially practice on paper, and transfer your drawing to the dishes with your “full hand”, the chances of an excellent result are high.
• Brushes. Synthetics are used for painting. In principle, two or three brushes of different sizes are enough to start with. A sharp thin brush with long hair must be available.
• Varnish. It is easier to work with an aerosol colorless varnish.

This is the basis with which you can bring to life a considerable number of creative ideas. Children really like painting ceramics: they just love painting plates. And not necessarily the drawing on the dishes should be complex and detailed. If the kid drew what he can, from the heart and honestly, this plate will be a wonderful reminder of the child's first artistic endeavors for many years to come.

Without little tricks in creativity - nowhere. Beginners usually encounter difficulties that they could have avoided if they had been strengthened with theoretical knowledge from the beginning.

This might be helpful:

• Never take on fundamental work right away. Start with stencils and templates that minimize mistakes. And to make the work immediately beautiful, take a plate with a beautiful background. For example, a white bunny or a flower drawn according to a pattern will look great on an azure blue saucer. And then you can make it more difficult.
• If you have never worked with paints, try starting with markers. They are more confident in the hand, although you may need to work with them a little more delicately. But markers are good because if you made a drawing on paper, then already on a plate with a high probability you will repeat it successfully. In addition, lettering on ceramics is in fashion today: interesting inscriptions and words can be combined with a passion for calligraphy.
• Remember that acrylics can dry out quickly if you forget to cover them. Acrylic is not watercolor, water is needed here only to wash the brushes (and this must be done on time).
• You can create themed collections. For example, buy six ordinary white plates, paint dishes in the same style with the same character. Come up with your own bunny or bear in different situations: here he stands with balloons, here is a hero in a birthday cap, here he is eating a cake and so on. Make sketches on paper, and then transfer the drawing to ceramics. Nobody will have such an author's set of plates!

For many masters, a modest hobby has become a profession. Craftsmen do not leave this niche, as there are a lot of fans to buy home such an exclusive, hand-made interior element.

The following video reveals life hacks for beginners in spot painting.

Remember the therapeutic effect of manual creativity. Painting has a beneficial effect on nervous system helps to cope with stress and emotional overload. If you look at the biographies of famous masters who are passionate about this or that painting, you will be surprised to note how many centenarians among them are.

Happy beginnings!

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Once I decided to paint a plate, for this I already used stained glass paints once. However, this time it was decided to make a brilliant painting, for this I decided to try multi-colored glitters and permanent markers.

1. I took this sample, using the GIMP program, selected the outlines and erased the center

and this is what came out:

I glued each of the parts from the outer surface with adhesive tape.

3. It would be very boring to make an ornament in one color, so I decided to paint a plate in three colors: blue, red and green. First I drew with a permanent marker on patterned paper, then on a plate and applied glitter on top. The markers were the cheapest M-Union, so there was no full staining of the pattern, it became translucent, and that's all I need - the glitters shone through the pattern! I applied glitter and got this ornament:

4. Now it's the turn of the inner pattern! Since the initial pattern of three colors seemed rather banal and boring to me, it was decided to make the inner pattern of one element: I mirrored and copied the element in the same GIMP program, combined and flattened a little, and then selected the edge, like this:

5. I also printed it out and painted it in three colors, then attached it to the inside of the plate and translated it with permanent markers and glitter on top.

6. Finally, I found that the edges of the ornament looked a little blurry and therefore outlined with a clearer and thinner (important for stroke) black Centropen marker.

Today we will talk about one of the oldest types of art - wood painting. Intricate patterns, drawings, characters and scenes from literary works on tablets, trays, caskets and vases look great in the interior of any room today.

Wood painting is an arts and crafts that has a long history. Art painting on wood was carried out with bright colors. Painted souvenirs were passed down from generation to generation and were valued by the growing youth. Today, wood painting is widely used in the field of furniture production, dishes, toys, musical instruments.

Types of painting on wood

There are many types of wood painting, different traditional techniques and schools. In one only Khokhloma painting there are several subspecies, depending on the type of ornament used!

Today we will consider the three most popular murals - Khokhloma, Mezen and Gorodets, since they are the most popular and widely known. It is important to remember that besides them there are many other, no less wonderful types of painting: for example, Volkhov, Boretskaya, Vladimirskaya, etc.

1. Khokhloma.

This type of painting is an old Russian craft that originated in the vicinity of Nizhny Novgorod around the 17th century.

Wooden utensils have always been held in high esteem in Russia, but untreated wood absorbs moisture and gets dirty quickly. To avoid this, they began to cover the dishes with boiled linseed oil - drying oil, which covered the surface of a wooden object with an impenetrable film.

A distinctive feature of the technique is to give the product a golden sheen without the use of gold.

Khokhloma takes its principle of gilding without gold from ancient icon-painting techniques: in order to save money, the background of the icons was painted over with silver (and later with cheaper tin or aluminum), images of saints were applied, and then covered with linseed oil in several layers in a separate drying in the oven of each layer. Under the influence of temperature, the drying oil film acquired a golden hue and a silver background, which was also cast under it with a golden tint.

Primary colors in Khokhloma:

Red;

Gold;

Additional colors:

Green;

The painting in Khokhloma is applied by hand, without preliminary marking. Traditional elements - juicy rowan and strawberry berries, flowers and branches. Often there are birds, fish and animals.

There are two types of painting: “horse”, when a silver background (which will become gold after firing!) Is applied in red and black; and “under the background”, when the contour of the ornament is first outlined, and then the background is filled with black paint, while the drawing remains gold.

2. Gorodets painting.

This painting also appeared in the Nizhny Novgorod province, but later than Khokhloma - in the 19th century.

The plot compositions in this painting are much more complex, but the masters also applied them without preliminary marking.

Gorodets painting was performed on a bright background with tempera paints.

The main method of painting - first, the background color is applied to the product, then “underpainting” is applied to it - large color spots. After that, the drawing is worked out with a thin brush, then the painting is finished with “lightening” - additional thin strokes and dots, applied, as a rule, with white paint, and emphasizing details and contrast. The main motifs are flower arrangements, fairytale and epic stories, city scenes.

3. Mezen painting.

An old-fashioned way of decorating wooden utensils and other household items. This painting is a purely ornamental decor.

Main feature: a fractional pattern - stars, crosses, dashes - made in two colors: black and red.

The main motifs of the geometric ornament are solar disks, rhombuses, crosses. Also, sketchy images of animals are used as an ornament: horses or deer. All images are very static and only through repeated repetition does a feeling of dynamics arise.

The product is painted on clean, unprimed wood, first with red ocher, and then a black stroke is made.

By the way, on our website you can watch several master classes on Mezen painting and its stylization!

Where to start and how to do wood painting

Brushes for painting on wood

The best brushes for painting on wood are soft brushes of natural origin. Squirrel, core, less often sable are especially valued. However, synthetic brushes are also great for acrylic paints.

Before the process, it is important to determine the appropriate sizes for brushes, which are indicated by numbers. For beginners, it is advised to take one large, two medium and one thin small brush.

It is important to remember that all ancient trade paintings originated in the peasant class, in the hands of people who were much more familiar with the plow and hammer than the brush. And if they can do it, you can too! In traditional paintings, there is no need to draw faces, figures, or observe portrait likeness. The most important thing is to hone the technique of drawing different elements, learn how to freely turn the brush in your hands and mix colors. You need to apply a little patience, drawing the same elements over and over again, and in the end you will learn how to draw them perfectly! Pretty not a large number of simple basic elements and their combinations - that's all!

And it is important to understand that if recognized masters of different types of painting could apply it without a preliminary drawing, then we, mere mortals, can not apply the drawing right away with paints, but use a pencil, stencil, carbon paper or tracing paper to start, but not get too carried away. After all, if you constantly resort to ready-made drawings, the ability to fantasize on your own is dulled. Remember, the main thing is to always enjoy the process of painting.

A hand-painted mug or plate can be a great gift even for a very demanding recipient. The image needs to be made individual, better - with a commemorative inscription.

Materials for painting at home

Paints can be baked or non-baked. The painting technique depends on what material to choose for painting. Therefore, the list of materials is, in fact, a list of the most common techniques.

It should also be noted that professional ceramic artists, as well as mass production, use more complex dyes. These paints are a type of glaze or enamel. They are bred in water or oil. After that, oil and moisture are evaporated and baked in muffle furnaces at a high temperature (over 400 degrees). Such a painting should cool down together with the oven. That is, sometimes the baking process takes about a day (the higher the baking temperature, the longer the oven and the object cool down). Paints for home use do not require such extreme temperatures, beginners can use them, and these paints usually already have the right consistency.

Painting with a ceramic marker

• Felt pens, pens, markers. Pottery pens or felt-tip pens are sold in needlework stores or artist salons. They are different sizes and different colors. Depending on the size, they can give a thin line or a thick one.
• Pigments without baking.
  • Acrylic.As a rule, acrylic paints are used. They are inexpensive and sold everywhere. As soon as the acrylic paint dries, it is fixed on top with a matte or glossy sealant. Acrylic paints come in a spray, and such paints give interesting effects (ombre, silhouettes).
  • Solvent based paints. These are durable paints like oil paintings. They are difficult to remove from brushes. But they don't require baking. They dry completely within 24 hours.
• baked pigments. Professional pigments - in the form of a powder, which artists dilute with oil or water on their own. For home use, already diluted paints are sold, these are ordinary-looking paints like gouache. They should be applied to porcelain. Then air dry, and then bake in the oven for about 30 minutes at a temperature of 350 degrees.
  • Enamel. After drying, such paints form a hard and glossy surface. The paints are durable but contain lead, so they should not be used on items that will contain food or drink.

Plate painting options

• • Water based paints. The advantage of water-based paint is that you can easily adjust its transparency. By diluting with water, you can achieve a light transparent layer, as well as achieve a watercolor effect (overlapping several transparent shades). Water-based paints are baked in an oven with a gradual increase in temperature and gradual cooling. Before baking, the paint must dry completely so that there are no bubbles. Such paint dries within 3 hours in the air.
  • glaze, chandelier. These are also professional paints. But there are also amateur glazes and chandeliers. Glaze is a paint hardening at high temperatures, which acquires gloss and a durable surface. A chandelier - transparent or translucent paint with a shiny or pearly effect. It also needs baking.
• Pure ceramic utensils for painting. Artists call this "linen". In shops for artists and for needlework, you can buy clean white services for painting, as well as ceramic figurines of animals and people. As a rule, such “linen” is matte objects without glaze, which require additional processing. You can't eat or drink from them.
• Sets for painting on dishes at home. These are sets for beginners or for children. They already have a ready-made object for painting (a cup or a ceramic figurine), various sketches, a brush, paints and instructions for use. The convenience of the kits is that you can start painting immediately, without unnecessary preparations. The disadvantage is the high cost, it is more profitable to buy paints separately from dishes.
• Paints on glass. They can also be used on porcelain. But some of them leave high relief, you should be aware of this.
• stencils. Sets of stencils for painting on dishes are sold in needlework stores. This is a handy drawing technique. They have an adhesive surface (like stickers), they are convenient to use. But you can make stencils yourself (from thick paper, thick cellophane or thin plastic).

Ideas for painting

The simplest geometric pattern

• inscriptions. The easiest design is to simply write some kind of inscription on a plate or cup. If a family celebration is planned, you can write on the plates the names of the audience and even a short message to them (“Happy New Year!”, “Happy Holidays!”). The inscriptions can be fantasy and calligraphic, or they can look like lines of a letter.
• The simplest one-color drawing. Peas, stripes, strokes, lines. These are patterns of simple geometric shapes. Done with a brush and paint.
• Vanguard. Colored blots and random strokes can also make an interesting composition for painting on dishes.

Interior decorated with painted plates

• Decorative painting for interior decoration. Decorating walls with beautiful plates is a tradition of many nations. You can make a whole panel on the wall from the plates. If you do not plan to eat from these plates, then you can paint with ordinary acrylic paints with gloss.
• ombre. Gradient staining is achieved if the paint is applied with a sponge. Another professional welcome- apply stripes of liquid paint, and until they are dry with a regular needle, disperse the color border.
• Children's drawings. Children are very fond of painting on dishes, as a practical object remains after creativity. Any children's drawing can become a plot for painting a plate or cup.

There are plenty of ideas for painting. These are paintings and museum exhibits. There are whole collections social networks Instagrame or Pinterest, specialized magazines and websites publish new ideas.

Painting dishes and celebrities

Admirers of painting on dishes: Paris Hilton, David Beckham, Jessica Alba, Sharon Stone

Hollywood celebrities have become a kind of promoter of ceramics. The paparazzi often capture them in ceramics classes with their offspring. The most famous fans of painting on ceramics are Paris Hilton, Mischa Barton, Denise Richards, Nicole Ricci. This made joint classes in painting ceramics together with children fashionable and popular all over the world.

Kate Middleton and Princes William at the Children's Art Center

Photos of Kate Middleton and Prince William became popular when they visited child Center creativity and engaged in painting dishes with children. The network has a photo of actor Ben Affleck with his daughter Violetta during class, actress Jennifer Garnier, actress Sharon Stone, Christina Aguilera with her son Max, Jessica Alba with her daughter, David Beckham with his sons.

Technique for painting dishes at home with a marker (pen)

• Before you start painting, you should degrease the surface of the cup or plate, this is easy to do with alcohol. During painting, you should hold the object so as not to grab it with your fingers (even clean hands have sebum).
• If a mistake is made, everything can be corrected. The pen or felt-tip pen can be easily wiped off with a napkin and water.

Scratching method

• Painting can be done in several layers. Each of the layers is baked. However, you should be careful, because a large number of baking leads to fading of the first layers. Therefore, you should aim for a maximum of 2-3 layers.
• The professional approach to painting is to use the background, that is, the surface of the dish itself, and not paint over the entire product. It doesn't matter what color the background is, but it should work.
• There is such a technique - "scratching". First, a plate or cup is painted over with a fantasy background, then the paints are dried (but not baked). Then you need to take a toothpick or a needle (needle) and scratch the coloring layer. You will get an interesting effect of white graphics.
• If you plan to multi-color painting in several layers, you should start with the lightest shade.

Plates are one of the most convenient elements of utensils for painting in various styles. First, they are available and sold in any store. Or you can take an old, boring plate and breathe new life into it. Secondly, they have a large area, so they allow fantasy to roam and replace almost any drawings on their surface. In this article, we provide several master classes on step-by-step painting of various sizes of plates quickly and easily with our own hands.

One has only to try and you will like painting plates quickly and simply with your own hands - detailed wizard class on this applied arts will help to master this lesson even for beginner needlewomen.

Let's start with dot painting - a painstaking, but at the same time not too complicated option, subject even to those who are not very good at drawing.

We study the step-by-step painting of plates with our own hands in a master class

• plain glass plate or ceramic
• checkered notebook sheet or graph paper
• scotch
• scissors
• acrylic paints - it is best to use a special contour, because. it has a denser texture and it is convenient to squeeze it out of the tube drop by drop
• brushes

After varnishing, we will get a decorative plate, it will no longer be possible to eat from it. If you want to use it in the kitchen, then you need to choose special acrylic paints for baking, varnish is not needed for them.

1) The plate must be thoroughly washed, then thoroughly dry the surface and degrease it - wipe it with acetone or nail polish remover.

2) Now you need to choose a pattern that we will apply to the glass. Beginners can take inspiration from examples on the World Wide Web or use the drawings from this tutorial.

3) We make stencils out of paper and glue them with adhesive tape on a plate. Experienced craftsmen may not use any templates, but draw right out of their heads, but in order for the pattern to be neat and symmetrical, it is better to play it safe.

4) First you need to practice a little on the draft so that the points are even and the same, and you can start painting.

5) We continue to paint the plate with acrylics, adding new colors and making additional stencils if necessary.

6) If you see that some point looks “crooked”, you can immediately correct it with a dry cotton swab. If the paint has already hardened, you will have to use a stick soaked in a solvent. In the case of particularly thin points, you can use toothpicks.

7) Our plate is ready!

For lovers of folk motifs, you can try to decorate wooden plates using the Khokhloma painting technique. Unlike the previous one, this is a way for experienced artists!

• wooden plate
• gold and black acrylic paint(green optional)
• Kolinsky brushes #0 and #1
• sandpaper
• simple pencil

1) Thoroughly sand the surface of the plate and cover it with gold paint.

2) After the paint dries, with a simple pencil we make out the blank with Khokhloma painting.

3) With a thin black brush, we begin to paint over the drawing, placing accents where necessary.

4) If desired, you can paint over the leaves in green.

5) After the paint has dried, the plate must be varnished. Ready!

If this option seems too complicated, you can try Gorodets painting. Another interesting option that requires paint of just one color is the design of dishes using the Gzhel technique.

• white ceramic plate. Traditionally, opaque dishes are used, but in principle, these patterns will look good on a glass plate.
• simple pencil
• acetone (can be replaced with nail polish remover)
• acrylic blue and white paint
• brushes

1) Thoroughly wash and degrease the surface of the ceramic plate.

2) With a simple pencil, a sketch of a drawing - flowers, leaves, fabulous birds.

3) Having practiced on paper, we begin painting in the Gzhel style, combining dark blue and light blue strokes.

4) Let the paint dry. Ready!

Of course, these are not the only techniques. You can, for example, cut out any picture you like and use the template to transfer the image to a plate.

Or you can give free rein to your imagination and draw any picture yourself. You can be inspired by photos on the worldwide web.

Plate painting is great as a craft activity for kids of all ages. Schoolchildren can work with real dishes, and for children preschool age you can even use disposable plates and markers instead of paints.

Video on the topic of the article

For more clarity, we suggest watching the following videos, in which the process of painting ceramic and glass plates is demonstrated in stages.