Six's technique was a technique used by Attic black-figure vase painters first described by the Dutch scholar Jan Six in 1888 It involves laying on figures in white or red on a black surface and incising the details so that the black shows through. It was in regular use for the decoration of the whole vase, rather than for details as was the previous practice, by circa 530 BCE. The effect is similar to red-figure. Nikosthenes

Nikosthenes

Nikosthenes was a potter of Greek black- and red-figure pottery in the time window 545-510 B.C. He is thought to have been associated with the work of the painters Oltos, Lydos, Epiktetos and the Nikosthenes-Painter....

, Psiax

Psiax

Psiax was an Attic vase painter of the transitional period between the black-figure and red-figure styles. His works date to circa 525 to 505 BC and comprise about 60 surviving vases, two of which bear his signature. Initially he was allocated the name Menon Painter by John Beazley...

 and the Diosphos Painter

Diosphos Painter

The Diosphos Painter was an Athenian attic black-figure vase painter, many of whose surviving works are on lekythoi. He was first identified by C.H.E. Haspels in her Attic Black-figure Lekythoi . The Diosphos Painter was a pupil of the Edinburgh Painter, who also trained the Sappho Painter. He is...

 were amongst the early users of the technique and it was in use up until the mid-fifth century when it can be observed on a small number of oenochoe

Oenochoe

An oenochoe, also spelled oinochoe, is a wine jug and a key form of Greek pottery. There are many different forms of Oenochoe. The earliest is the olpe and has an S-shaped profile from head to foot.Oenochoe may be decorated or undecorated...

from the Haimon painter workshop.