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This little vase should look good with a nice blue glaze ☺️
Some tips and thoughts on the process below:
1. Prepare Clay: Start by wedging the clay to remove air bubbles and ensure uniform consistency. If you’ve got some clay brand-new from a bag then only wedge into a ball as brand new clay normally … Read More “Peaceful little vase thrown today, using white speckle clay”
This is a large vase that I recently constructed on the wheel that I have finally gotten around to glazing!! This is a new combo that we have been working on that incorporates 4 of our in house glazes on one piece
One of the tricks when applying multiple glazes is to keep the thickness of the g… Read More “Watch me apply 4 glazes in one vase”
For a successful glazing experience, consider these essential tips:
1. **Waxing the Bottom**: Apply a thin layer of wax to the bottom of your pottery pieces before glazing. This simple step prevents the glaze from adhering to the kiln shelf, making cleanup after dipping effortless and saving your pot… Read More “Comprehensive Glazing Tips for Pottery Enthusiasts”
Here is our stunning whacky wombat glaze on a wheel thrown vase made with keanes midfire black clay 💚💙🖤
This particular glaze is one of our specially formulated glaze to work on dark clay bodies. This allows us to get the deep blue and green oil spot reaction which would be a slightly different colou… Read More “Glazing This Wheel Thrown Vase”
I started off by putting a base blue sapphire glaze on the outside of the vase, before moving onto adding pink to the inside and a variegated green cover glaze to the bottom half, to see how they would interact with each other
The Tenmoku did give a nice effect also, punching through the green glaze … Read More “Lets Glaze This Vase”
Use this simple trick to help create different effects on your pottery and add artistry to your glaze application, this is also good if certain glazes you have prefer a white clay background for the best colours to show 😊
How to Achieve Perfect Glaze Application:
Mixing: Ensure thorough mixing of your… Read More “Try This Next Time You Start Glazing!! 🤩🤩”
Testing our new formulated green with the floating orange cover on this white bodied clay to see what the difference we see from the old version of the green. The method are used for glazing. This small vase was to coat the outside wall with the green glaze, and leave the inside of the vase complete… Read More “NEW GLAZE COMBO TEST TODAY 🤩🤩”
Step 1: Preparing the Base Glaze
First, ensure you have your base glaze ready. Start by using a high-speed paint mixer on a battery drill. Making sure the glaze is thoroughly mixed, and all of the glaze particles are no longer sitting on the bottom of the bucket. You want your glaze to be mixed well … Read More “LET ME SHOW YOU HOW I DID THIS!! 🤩”
Well I decided using the tongs all the time can get a bit mundane so decided to try scooping the glaze from the bucket with my hand to get a different effect!
It actually gave a very nice coverage on the pot as well as giving a good thickness of glaze too, quite happy with the results tbh
One of the things I’ve been doing recently, is trying different glaze combos to get it to see if we can get some new combinations that will suit some of the newer clays that were using, this most recent experiment is to try the sapphire blue with temmoku but with the added glaze of the white experim… Read More “Experimenting today with three different glazes”