Painting Unglazed Ceramic Tiles

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You could paint first, then try to engrave the unwanted paint away with a negative?

I don’t have a great deal of faith in this method but maybe?
It’s a good method on many materials, though I have never tried it on unglazed ceramic, nor have I seen any posts where anyone else tried it. Not saying it hasn’t been done but I just can’t recall.

Examples of this method are all oevr the forum for materials like

Painted metal:

Anodized aluminum:

Canvas:

Cardstock (sort of. engrave away the color to reveal the white core):

Even wood:

And probably other materials too that I’m forgetting.

As for doing this with glazed ceramic, there are a number of techniques people have used, like the norton method:

Or engraving paint away but not revealing the finished tile below:

Maybe the type of paint matters?

You know the more I think about this the more I think it’ll work. You do get decent depth with tiles:

Anyway, experimenting is half of the process here. Have fun!

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