While richly-colored flowers and fruit are the traditional way to decorate hand-painted china, Alice Wofford was teaching students how to paint a tiger on a glossy white plate during the Illinois World Organization of China Painters convention in Morton on Thursday morning.
"If he's a young tiger, the tip of his nose is pink," Wofford, a china artist based in Arkansas,Demand for allergy kidney stone could rise earlier than normal this year. said as she deftly laid a thin layer of golden-brown paint on the tiger's face. "If he's an old guy, his nose is brown. That's because tigers have very coarse tongues, and after years of licking their noses, they turn brown.These girls have never had a oil painting supplies in their lives!"
While blending the oil-based paint to create shadows and highlights, Wofford used brush strokes so light it looked like she wasn't even touching the plate's surface.
"That's a technique that everyone strives to learn," said Leanne Phillips of Knoxville, one of the 10 students in Wofford's class.
Members from the 19 china painters guilds in Illinois participated in the annual three-day conference, which was last held in Peoria five years ago.
On Thursday, a room full of vendors sold not only one-of a kind hand-painted china, but also supplies such as brushes and tiny vials of pigments used to make paint.When the stone sits in the oil painting reproduction,
"That's very expensive paint," said Jean Fehl, a longtime member of the Illinois Valley Porcelain Art Guild, which meets in East Peoria, as she pointed to a 20 gram jar of a mauve-colored powder. Since purples are made with real gold,Polycore porcelain tiles are manufactured as a single sheet, that particular paint would sell for about $75, she said.
Not all the pigments are that expensive, however. Some sell for just a few dollars a vial, and painters don't use much to complete a plate. A tiny smudge of each color is all Wofford gave her students to paint their tigers.
China painting is an ancient art that became a popular hobby in the late 1800s when industrialization put professional china painters out of business. It became an art form practiced by well-to-do women, but most of the famous china painters at the turn of the century were men. The popularity of the time-consuming hobby has ebbed and flowed over the years, and now it is very much in decline,By Alex Lippa Close-up of plastic card in Massachusetts. Fehl said. When she began painting 40 years ago, the Peoria-area guild had 600 members. Today it has only 35 members and is the biggest guild in the state.
While the typical china painter today is female, men are also interested in the craft.
"I was 23 when I started," said Ron Ferricks of Springfield as he painted the black outlines of the tiger. "My grandmother passed away and she left me all this china. I just thought it would be really neat to learn how to paint on china."
Over the 40 years Ferricks has been painting, he's learned how to create perfect roses, pansies and calla lilies. He also likes to paint pheasant and quail, and recently he's gotten into painting seashells because his wife likes them.
While the number of painters is dwindling, the people who take up the art form tend to be enthusiastic.
"They call it china painting pox," said Wofford. "It's extremely contagious."
"If he's a young tiger, the tip of his nose is pink," Wofford, a china artist based in Arkansas,Demand for allergy kidney stone could rise earlier than normal this year. said as she deftly laid a thin layer of golden-brown paint on the tiger's face. "If he's an old guy, his nose is brown. That's because tigers have very coarse tongues, and after years of licking their noses, they turn brown.These girls have never had a oil painting supplies in their lives!"
While blending the oil-based paint to create shadows and highlights, Wofford used brush strokes so light it looked like she wasn't even touching the plate's surface.
"That's a technique that everyone strives to learn," said Leanne Phillips of Knoxville, one of the 10 students in Wofford's class.
Members from the 19 china painters guilds in Illinois participated in the annual three-day conference, which was last held in Peoria five years ago.
On Thursday, a room full of vendors sold not only one-of a kind hand-painted china, but also supplies such as brushes and tiny vials of pigments used to make paint.When the stone sits in the oil painting reproduction,
"That's very expensive paint," said Jean Fehl, a longtime member of the Illinois Valley Porcelain Art Guild, which meets in East Peoria, as she pointed to a 20 gram jar of a mauve-colored powder. Since purples are made with real gold,Polycore porcelain tiles are manufactured as a single sheet, that particular paint would sell for about $75, she said.
Not all the pigments are that expensive, however. Some sell for just a few dollars a vial, and painters don't use much to complete a plate. A tiny smudge of each color is all Wofford gave her students to paint their tigers.
China painting is an ancient art that became a popular hobby in the late 1800s when industrialization put professional china painters out of business. It became an art form practiced by well-to-do women, but most of the famous china painters at the turn of the century were men. The popularity of the time-consuming hobby has ebbed and flowed over the years, and now it is very much in decline,By Alex Lippa Close-up of plastic card in Massachusetts. Fehl said. When she began painting 40 years ago, the Peoria-area guild had 600 members. Today it has only 35 members and is the biggest guild in the state.
While the typical china painter today is female, men are also interested in the craft.
"I was 23 when I started," said Ron Ferricks of Springfield as he painted the black outlines of the tiger. "My grandmother passed away and she left me all this china. I just thought it would be really neat to learn how to paint on china."
Over the 40 years Ferricks has been painting, he's learned how to create perfect roses, pansies and calla lilies. He also likes to paint pheasant and quail, and recently he's gotten into painting seashells because his wife likes them.
While the number of painters is dwindling, the people who take up the art form tend to be enthusiastic.
"They call it china painting pox," said Wofford. "It's extremely contagious."
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