Brooke and I used to go to the 'paint your own pottery' place all the time, one visit we made these fun star shaped plates and since there's a little technique involved I thought I'd share how we made them.
They both use similar techniques to make the pattern so clean (cuz there's no way either one of are free- handing stripes or stars this perfect haha!!). In both of these examples you start with a couple coats of white paint all over the plate, let it dry completely before decorating.
To make the stripes: simply put tape over the area you want to stay white and paint in between with the color of your choice. Brooke went with yellow stripes, I went with a flag theme and painted my stripes red. If you want the stripes to be more solid add a second coat of paint. Let dry and peel off the tape.
For the stars (or whatever shape you want) cut or punch out the shape from paper in the size you want. B went with large stars and I went for small. Lightly dampen the paper shapes and stick in place. For the pink and yellow plate Brooke left tape over the last white stripe towards the middle and painted one coat of pink over the paper stars (make sure the paper stays stuck down or else the pink will bleed underneath. For my flag plate I put tape over the stripes to keep the blue paint from covering any of the stripes and keeping a nice sharpe line, then fill in that area with blue paint (the navy paint had the texture in it already, I didn't add it). Once the paint has dried very carefully pick the paper stars off using a pin or sharp pointy object. When you remove the paper you'll reveal the crisp white star shape.
6.30.17: make a flag luminary
