A few days ago, I attended a porcelain painting workshop in the famous Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen, Germany. Painting with the porcelain painting colours was a real challenge: they react unlike oils, unlike watercolours or acrylics...Nevertheless, I'm happy with my first attempt and I learned a lot about this special form of painting and the history of porcelain painting in these three days. We visited the studios of the professional Manufactory painters and watched them work and talked to them. They have to earn a living with painting the same flower bouquets, day in, day out. Although in my opinion they are all artists, they are still considered to be workers, they can never decide which motif to put on the porcelain, because they are no designers. They are paid to paint, not to design ...
few days ago I visited a Porzellanmalworkshop in the famous porcelain factory in Meissen. It was a challenge to work with the Porzellanmalfarben that respond totally different from oil paints, watercolors or acrylics ... But I'm quite happy with my first attempt. I learned a lot about this particular type of painting and the history of porcelain painting. On the last day we visited the studios of professional artists of the factory and watch them at work. We talked with them very interesting. They earn their money by the same flower bouquet, day in, day out, always paint again. Although in my view, all artists , they are still considered as workers. You can not decide what is painted on a porcelain because they are not designers. They are paid to paint, not to design ...
