HOW TO DECORATE PORCELAIN SURFACE WITH 3D ILLUSION PAINTING OR DRAWING | Velimir Vukicevic
16-17-18-19 October 2026
Course focused on porcelain decoration.
At this workshop, participants can learn how to decorate porcelain surfaces with 3D illusion painting and drawing. Workshop is going to cover artistic and technical problems. I will show how to do protection of the surfaces, and decoration using engobes, two kind of transfers, glaze, under-glaze, over-glaze, air-brush.
How do you makea sculpture of something whose form is variable? How do you materialize and bring under control water, wind, and air…? How do you estimate asuitable stopping moment while indicating that the air will continueto flow and that the water will continue toripple?Ialso rationally asked myself how to get asmuch as possible different sculptures using one plaster mould, bycutting adding and 3D painting? When I capture theair in the form of a cloud, it allows me to paint on its surfacedifferent contents like insects, dust particles, imaginary mechanicalobjects, viruses, or birds. .. By drawing or painting 3D formson already existing forms,I am questioning our perception and posing unsolvable riddles: isthat which we see reality or just a skillful illusion?
Velimir Vukicevic
He has been exhibiting his works for over fifty years, with eighteen solo exhibitions held in Serbia, Croatia, Japan, Germany, France, and Romania.
His works are included in numerous prestigious international collections, including the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade (Serbia), City Museum Kanazawa, Seto City Art Museum, and Mino Park Museum (Japan), Romhild Museum and Westervald Museum (Germany), the World Ceramic Foundation (Korea), Town of Carouge Museum (Switzerland), Ceramic Museum in Faenza (Italy), Yingge Museum (Taiwan), L’Alcora Museum (Spain), Teapot Museum in Yixing and the Jingdezhen University Collection (China), the Aberystwyth Collection (Wales, United Kingdom), and the Kecskemét Collection (Hungary).
Throughout his career, he has received numerous international awards, including the Career Award Faenza 2023, Grand Prix Andenne, Belgium 2025, Silver Award at the 2nd Teapot Exhibition, Yixing, China 2024, Grand Prix L’Alcora, Spain 2019, Gold Award at the 1st Teapot Exhibition, Yixing, China 2019, First Prize at the Cluj Biennial, Romania 2017, Honorable Mention Manises, Spain 2024, Second Prize at The Journey of Ceramics, Jingdezhen, China 2021, and several Honorable Mentions at the Mino Exhibition, Japan, among others.
The 23-hour course begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, and begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 12:00 p.m. on Monday.
Included in the Workshop cost:
23 hours of teaching | all the necessary materials | firings | nr. 4 breakfasts
Teacher: Velimir Vukicevic
Languages: English, Italian
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To confirm your inscription you have to make a bank transfer of a deposit or the total amount.
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