glazing day today I started to pull together two months work and glazed enough pots to fill the kiln. I haven’t really worked out which glaze is going to work over all the porcelain inlay/dusting/layers. probably a thin coating of the barium glaze will be the most transparent, and therefore the safest. I have also tried it with my copper-tin-dolomite glaze, which gives anything from orange to black with rust and khaki in between. I put a lot of the copper glaze in this firing, hoping for the pale tinge of copper green which transfers onto the barium glaze, and which turns turquoise on the porcelain, provided I don’t over-reduce the firing. in the front here is the first big pot I made in the recent series, with the scratch marks in porcelain like the chalk beach at West Runton and next to it and just behind, one of the pots I had drying in the living room the other week. with the barium glaze poured in the case of the big pot, and the copper glaze overlapped with my ash glaze which has a texture like suede, and makes a blue-anthracite cracked texture on the overlap, on the tall narrow pot. kiln was packed and closed up by three in the afternoon, so I went for a late walk with the dogs . when we got back it was practically dark, with a wonderful golden glow in the west and the first stars just pricking through. Post navigation threadbarekiln 3 Comments Wow, that’s complicated with figuring out the colors of your glaze. When I took a pottery class once, things were just in buckets and you were pretty much guaranted just a large block color. I guess the mystery is part of the fun? Crossing fingers that your very big pot makes it all the way through. xoxoxoxo Reply opening the kiln after a glaze firing is always full of trepidation, and inevitably there is disappointment …. and usually some wonderful results as well, which tend to be impossible to reproduce. the first glaze firing I did with this kiln was all tests and experiments – one result I particularly liked, and mixed up a big batch of the glaze – only to get a boring white glaze. in the end I worked out that in the test I had left out the tin oxide (tends to make glaze opaque) which resulted in this pretty sparkly grey lustre. in fact pretty sparkly grey lustre doesn’t suit the pots I am making! Reply See!! Grey can be pretty and sparkly!! ((Jane)) Reply Leave a ReplyCancel reply This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Wow, that’s complicated with figuring out the colors of your glaze. When I took a pottery class once, things were just in buckets and you were pretty much guaranted just a large block color. I guess the mystery is part of the fun? Crossing fingers that your very big pot makes it all the way through. xoxoxoxo Reply
opening the kiln after a glaze firing is always full of trepidation, and inevitably there is disappointment …. and usually some wonderful results as well, which tend to be impossible to reproduce. the first glaze firing I did with this kiln was all tests and experiments – one result I particularly liked, and mixed up a big batch of the glaze – only to get a boring white glaze. in the end I worked out that in the test I had left out the tin oxide (tends to make glaze opaque) which resulted in this pretty sparkly grey lustre. in fact pretty sparkly grey lustre doesn’t suit the pots I am making! Reply