painting pottery

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Hi Jason. It must have been an ink-like dye. If you look closely at real vases you can see in the light the line of the brush and the thickness of the dye. You see it was't paper so the dye stayed and dried on the clay. But it was not that thick. You can feel the thickness with your fingertips only in the ends of some lines where the brush has left a spot for example. Early vases,say mycenean or geometrical were painted with a dye that i don't know what it consisted of,and it took its final red-broun-black shades only after baked.
In my opinion,the vase art has not been recognised so much as it deserves. Such pieces of art were made with no chance of erasing a mistake,and only with one movement of the hand for a whole face or a whole hand! Also,i hadn't realized how big some of those scenes were untinl I saw the real things. Some vases are close to 1m hight. Of cource some others are tiny,like 6cm high.
Khaire
Giannis