How To Glaze Ceramics

This method requires exceptional attention to detail and practice to perfect.

How to glaze ceramics.

Watch this ceramics tutorial video to learn how to glaze your pottery. Brush glazing is a glazing technique that uses a brush to place a finishing level of glaze on ceramics. Once your ceramics have gone through their glaze firing they ll be vitrified and the process will be irreversible. Jennifer poellot harnetty editor.

Dipping pottery into a fluid glaze about the consistency of heavy cream is one of the fastest ways to glaze large quantities of pottery. Pottery glazes are complex mixtures that fuse to pottery when placed in a kiln at high temperatures. Almost any squeezable plastic bottle with a fine aperture tip will do well. Closed captioned ceramic teacher christa schmeder from corvallis high school corvallis oregon shows the basics of glazing ceramics.

The easiest way to make up your test glazes is to make a series of different ceramic tiles in the different types of clay you ll be working with. Hopefully you will benefit from annie s advice too. I know my glazing outcomes could be greatly improved if i followed just a couple of annie s pottery glazing tips. Glaze trailing 13 is a way of drawing on the ceramic surface in a linear fashion.

This helpful how to video contains detailed instructions that cover the basics of glazing and are perfect for potters of every level. It allows potters to create unique designs with multiple layers exceptional versatility and a lot of room for creativity. It also is a good method to ensure an even glaze coat. Like slip trailing it can be done with a variety of tools.

When dip glazing it is almost always a very good idea to make certain you have prepared your pots well including giving their bottoms a good coating of wax resist. Glazes are responsible both for decorating the pottery and for creating an attractive glossy surface that protects the pottery from wear and water.