Post #252852 by Tipsy McStagger on Thu, Sep 7, 2006 10:24 AM

..just wondering what you use to treat the glazed ceramic before painting it....do you scuff the surface at all, sand blast it or use a chemical?...it's been my experience with painting mugs without treating the glaze i found causes the paint to flake and fall off over time. especially with exposeure to fluctuations in temperature......primer doesn't work either....somrthing to think about before angry customers start calling you in a month or so wondering what happened to their mug.....something about the glaze just doesn't want anything to adhere to it once it's been fired.....how about it, holden, any suggestions since you are the ceramic king of tiki farm??

also, the mugs used in gallery shows that artists paint are usually unglazed greenware, which absolutely loves paint!! i found that only pinstripe paint tends to adhere to mugs that were already glazed....but that's probably because it's taking up less surface area as opposed to covering the whole mug...

[ Edited by: Tipsy McStagger 2006-09-07 10:27 ]