Blue & White Porcelain with Yunting Li
- Throw Clay LA
- Dec 3, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Dec 5, 2025
Coming January 17th, 2026, 10AM - 1PM: A Three Hour Workshop at Throw Clay LA
We’re honored to welcome ceramic artist Yunting Li for a focused, hands-on exploration of traditional blue & white porcelain techniques. This one-day Los Angeles ceramics workshop brings students into direct contact with an artist known for refined forms, confident brushwork, and a contemporary approach to historic porcelain decoration.
This workshop offers potters a rare opportunity to study cobalt painting on porcelain in an focused, hands-on environment. Whether you’re new to brushwork or looking to refine your surface-design skills, you’ll gain insight into how to build intention, control, and stylistic clarity into your pottery.
What You’ll Learn
During this LA porcelain workshop, Yunting will cover:
Preparing porcelain surfaces for decoration
Types of cobalt and how they behave during firing
Brush selection and stroke technique
Composition, layering, and line variation
Designing motifs that enhance thrown or handbuilt forms
Firing considerations for sharp, clean blue & white results
Students will see a full demonstration before applying these techniques to their own bisqued pieces.
How This Workshop Enhances Your Broader Surface-Design Skills
Although the focus is blue & white porcelain, the techniques taught here strengthen a wide range of surface-decoration practices and support long-term creative growth.
Brushwork Confidence Mastering pressure, rhythm, and timing translates to underglaze painting, oxide washes, slip work, and even the planning stages of sgraffito.
Compositional Awareness Yunting’s emphasis on balancing imagery with form enhances your ability to design surfaces for any style—wax-resist, layered underglaze, slip trailing, and more.
Intentional Mark-Making Clear, deliberate brushwork builds a visual language that crosses into carved decoration, line-based designs, and mixed-media surfaces.
Layering Strategies The principles behind building depth in cobalt decoration also support multi-stage underglaze painting, atmospheric firings, and complex glaze combinations.
Developing these skills is valuable for any potter looking to expand their artistic range and strengthen their creative decision-making.
What to Bring
Please bring two to three bisqued cone 5/6 porcelain pieces—simple cups, bowls, or small vases work best for this style of painting. Additionally, bring any of your favorite painting brushes, sharp scissors, red/blue pen, eraser, 6B pencil, utility knife.
We will supply all cobalt, brushes, and materials. Yunting will also have vases, bowls and tiles available for purchase.
Who This Is For
This Los Angeles pottery workshop is ideal for:
Students who have completed a beginner course
Members looking to expand their surface-design vocabulary
Potters interested in blue & white techniques or porcelain painting
Makers seeking to refine detail work and compositional choices
Why Study Blue & White Porcelain
Blue & white work is more than traditional decoration—it’s a discipline focused on clarity, intention, and precision. Understanding how cobalt interacts with porcelain deepens your awareness of material, enhances your overall design approach, and builds confidence across all pottery styles.
About the Artist
Yunting Li is a Chinese ceramic artist and Advanced Glaze Designer at Laguna Clay and Glaze Company based in Los Angeles. Her work blends traditional Eastern forms with modern interpretation, honoring historical blue & white methods while presenting them through a contemporary lens. She teaches workshops across California and exhibits widely in both group and solo shows.
A Day of Focused Creativity
This one-day porcelain painting workshop offers a concentrated dive into a technique rarely taught in local studios. If you’re looking to expand your surface-design skills, unlock new creative approaches, or learn directly from a working artist, this session will be a strong addition to your pottery practice.
Reserve Your Spot
This workshop is limited in size to ensure focused instruction and individual guidance. If you’re looking to deepen your surface-design skills, explore blue & white porcelain, and learn from one of the region’s most thoughtful instructors, we encourage you to book early.
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