How To Glaze Ceramics With Bubbles

Dipping pottery into a fluid glaze about the consistency of heavy cream is one of the fastest ways to glaze large quantities of pottery.

How to glaze ceramics with bubbles.

The other bubble glaze vi. Use clays not containing large gas generating particles i e. In this video i show you how to do the bubble glaze technique. Make bubbles concoction mix equal parts soap paint and water in a cup.

It also is a good method to ensure an even glaze coat. The lines of glaze should be thin and smooth against the piece. The other bubble glaze vi. 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.

Apply the glaze in a thinner layer to minimize its ability to contain large bubbles. Apply as much or as little bubbles as you want. Pop most of the bubbles with your hand. 1 a bubble forms at the glaze body contact surface 2 3 the bubble grows pushing through the melted glaze 4 the bubble bursts leaving a crater and exposing the clay body.

Rutile blue tend to be quite sensitive to thick application and fast firing and cooling and bubbling problems with them seem out of place. She is a studio technician at the michigan art center and started. Adjusting a glaze formulation can help heal pinholes but it s better to prevent them from forming in the. Pyrites sulphates some fluid glazes i e.

Welcome to a new video. And i talk about the materials you need. The author hedy yang is a ceramic artist from novi michigan. Glaze surface tension and viscosity keep glaze from flowing into the void left by the bubble.

If the dried bubbles leave behind thick crumbs of glaze you ve applied too much.