Glazing with Clayscapes Glazes - Live at 5

that was my chun blue on top of clinton pottery red now i no longer am in possession of that mug because it was so fabulous it's gone i do have a similar piece it's a bowl this is clinton pottery red with coastal blue not quite as like eye-catching as my chun blue on top of the clinton pottery red but still gorgeous nonetheless so this is a good combo and i like it it's even better when we do chun blue so what we'll do tonight is we're going to glaze a piece with clinton pottery red and then we're going to put chun blue on top so we're going to replicate that mug picture i shared with you all we're going to replicate that tonight in the glazing part and then you'll see it in the kiln opening on sunday so that's right there'll be a kiln opening sunday which is super exciting and all the things we glaze tonight will be in that kiln opening so i just want to let everybody know who's watching live right now that i have two cameras set up one for clay share and everybody there everybody except instagram instagram's camera's over there so when you see me looking over here i'm not ignoring you i'm just making sure the folks instagram feel like they're getting some love too and the folks at instagram i'm looking this way because i have like six other platforms that way and you guys are there but you're special because i'm gonna i'm gonna look at you all so hi everybody watching from syracuse that's where clayscape's pottery is uh you love clinton pottery red laurie i do too it is a beautiful glaze and i have very little in the studio with it because it goes as soon as i make something with it just poof gone so i do have a few of my own glazes that are available through clayscape's pottery glazes that i've designed and i've used for years in my studio and i will show you those now quickly we'll go through my glazes and then we'll talk about stoneware glazes and we'll talk about the brooklyn line so this is my cobblestone it's a gorgeous gray and on top is my spearmint cobblestone inside and out with a dip of my spearmint on top this is a nice glaze for texture but i did one without texture so this is a wheel thrown mug this is a hand built mug and you can see both look fabulous a little different look with a wheel thrown versus a hand built mug but the texture still shows through so that's my cobblestone and spearmint which are two of my favorite glazes now while we're talking about grays because my cobblestone is a gray clayscapes has a fog gray and everybody always asks the difference my cobblestone that's this one here is just a little more of a semi-matte the fog gray is more of a gloss i would say tone wise they're pretty close to the same but my my cobblestone's more of a satiny finish less of a gloss so that's really the only difference between the two they're very similar otherwise so i hope that clears it up oh you like facebook sound the best well that would be because i'm not actually even wearing my mic that would be difficult to hear if i don't actually put the mic on hey hey tech guy you got a mic for me we're a professional outfit we know what we're doing uh excuse me for a second while i mic up folks can you hear me now this is you know why i'm not wearing the mic because guess what else i'm not wearing tonight oh that's a leading question isn't it my apron i'm not wearing an apron because um it's 88 degrees here in vermont that is a little warm for us vermonters we are not quite used to it this is how it goes this is how you put a mic on folks you got to string the wire through your shirt um because you want to hide the the whole battery pack and the receiver out so there you go you missed that so sound should be better thank you for mentioning it yeah i would have done the whole broadcast well no i would have realized it but better now check check one two three good good good i know you know why there's no apron it is hot it is hot and an apron i just don't know if i can take it i need like a summer whey apron like um you just wear an apron with i guess a tank top and shorts but i i didn't do that all right so now we're good and everything it's 79 in mississippi we are 88 in vermont that's hot for vermont it's very hot and i'm in a lightweight plaid shirt and jeans and socks and boots of course because i'm in the studio and that's what i wear all right let's move on move on 104 for you folks in california i hope you get ac stay inside don't don't cook sounds good now right this is the difference between having a professional microphone on when you're recording versus just using the microphone on your camera a lot of people are always asking me about doing their own videos and recording their own tutorials and you know one of the best things you can do is get a microphone a separate mic for your camera because the sound is so much better it makes such a difference and also get studio lights that makes a huge difference too diana finally got the georgie's pigments the pigments are amazing they are so good we're not going to talk about them tonight but they're still good all right so back over to the glazes so we don't get too sidetracked this is pitch black with my chun blue on top so when i when i showed that picture earlier of the clinton pottery red with my chun blue this is like the black version the chun is so intense when you put it on top of the pitch black it does the same thing with the pot the clinton pottery red so imagine this intensity of blue on this gorgeous like deep reddish color it's it's fabulous it's this is also a combo i cannot keep in the studio as soon as i make a piece with this it phew at the door it's gone and then another combo and i have two pieces glazed the same way so you can see it in a mug and in a bottle form this is shadow blue dipped about two thirds the way up on the bottom and then on the top is coastal blue so if you are looking for a glaze that is kind of beachy look at that isn't that yummy so i would say this one was about two-thirds to the top so i dipped it like this bloop we'll do this tonight by the way we'll do this combo i dipped it in the shadow blue and then turned it over and bloop dipped it in coastal blue and then the inside i just used shadow blue so that i had that consistency with the blue on the inside and the blue on the outside but this mug is one of my favorites and i use this this is like one of my favorites i kept it and the shape it's a nice shape it's not the most spectacular shaped mug but that glaze combo is so nice and it's easy i'm going to show you how to get it i'm going to show you how to do that tonight so we'll do that so i'm going to start putting pieces away oh and this is what i want to show you this is coastal blue on bmx that's nice right if you want a light clay a light glaze on a light clay but here's the thing it's called coastal blue and you're like but it's not very blue it's not blue as in like a bright blue it's more like seafoam blue or ocean wave foam blue now coastal blue same exact glaze on laguna 60 clay so this is their darks they're like dark tan speckled clay here it is on bmix and i think the back really shows it better this is one of my my pie plates from our pie plate class look at the difference i'm going to show the folks clay share instagram you all can see that right and you might have seen some of these pieces when they came out of kilns for kiln opening and this right here is just yummy toasty i think i had it going really close so you can see it breaks toasty on the edge this one just breaks light it's beautiful i'm switching around so you can see see the coastal by itself see how it breaks toasty this is called trying to make everybody happy right all right so that's the coastal blue which is a fabulous glaze on top of so many things by itself it's beautiful i really like it on darker clays though so let's talk about uh where are we going to go now we're staying in the stoneware glazes let's stay in the stoneware glazes for just a little bit longer so sticking with that tan speckled clay from laguna or any tan speckled clay this is called spruce blue and it's a really pretty blue i really like it when you put it on a speckled clay when you put on a non-speckled clay it's good but i think it's better on a speckled clay that's just my preference and here's cream by itself so this is cream i'm going to put it really really close because i want you to see those speckles do you see how the speckles come through on the clay and the folks at instagram do you see the speckles and then i'm going to show you this right here so this is what i call my bikini mug because it is that same clay the laguna 60 and i have to find the code it's wc so laguna has like number 60 is what they call it as their like working number but then they have an official wc number and i will find out what it is but this is cream on the bottom spruce blue on the top nothing in the middle so it's like wait swearing a bikini because it's little belly its tummy is hanging out and where are those glazes meet the bare clay um it's just got this beautiful warmth going on there it's gorgeous i love it so this is one of my favorite combos and just cream on the inside see those speckles see those speckles on the inside i love the specks so this is a fun way to glaze a piece leave a little bare clay in the middle but completely glazed on the inside and then a couple more pieces in the stoneware line my spearmint and my lake blue together on that same speckly clay and then when they overlap they do this really yummy thing right there i love it you can see it actually i think on the inside a little better and this is a casserole dish and then playing with spruce blue and cream again here so you can see the difference between the spruce blue and my lake blue they're similar but my lake blue is more of a gloss the spruce blue is a little more matte just a little bit you like the bikini mug it's fun it's fun to play with glazes like that and do something a little unexpected and leave a bare spot naked clay sometimes right all right and then the last thing i'm going to do oh two more things i want to show so my chun blue it's a fabulous glaze slightly translucent here it is by itself on bmx so you get this really nice simple blue put it on porcelain look at the difference here it is on porcelain in this pierced bowl here it is on b mix wow right well let's do one more how about we put it on laguna 80 which is a dark clay look at this color blue same exact glaze on three different clays and i don't have it on a speckled clay right now but it looks amazing on speckled clay too but one glaze can give you three different effects on three different clays i picked up the wrong things this one b mix porcelain laguna 80. so these are all laguna clays um what else we have oh now we're going to do something we're going to kind of segue over to [Music] the celadons we're going to do that i do want to show here's my spearmint with my lake blue so that's a nice combo and then we have to talk about the aqua we can't we can't leave the stoneware glazes until we talk about aqua so here's aqua it's one of my favorite glazes on top is my chun blue it's a very subtle transition it's gorgeous but very subtle now i want to show you it when you put the aqua and starry night together here it is so dipped half well two-thirds in aqua and then two-thirds and starry night so you get that little stripe it's gorgeous that's on a flat piece let me show you a bowl dipped it in aqua like this bloop and then let that dry turn it over and went bloop like that in starry night and you get this right here yummy amazing so it's a little different you get more movement when you're doing it on a bowl form than you do on a plate because a plate is a horizontal form it doesn't have that vertical surface for everything to run down and melt and flux but it's it's one of my one of my first favorite combos from clayscapes when i first started using it their glazes that was the one i was like and then i discovered this shadow blue with cream when you put them together you get one of the most stunning combinations ever look at what happens it creates almost these peacock feather eyes it's so good yeah so this is shadow blue dipped the plate like this into the shadow blue to about here you can actually see where it stopped and then waited for it to dry and then dipped it in cream to about here so i'd say three quarter uh yeah three i'd say three quarters shadow blue on one side three quarters cream and that gives this super yummy melty look at that there yumminess happening it's so good it's it's so good and i have to tell you imagine this if instead of blue that was black if you do the pitch black with cream that's what you get you get the same effect but with black and white it's if you like black and white you got to try that because it's gorgeous you have a question yeah uh does coastal blue run coastal blue runs sure does that's and let's just look at the bottom of this poor little guy right here um i don't know if y'all can see how much that ran and stuck to my shelf right there and i had to grind it down so i like coastal blue as an over dipped glaze and i do another glaze the bottom so this was only about halfway maybe maybe a good a little more than a third of coastal but it ran almost another inch so coastal is a runner so be careful if you use that on plates and platters close to the bottom you got to thin it out and make sure you don't do too thick of an application or else it will run but it is a gorgeous glaze and if you're going to put it on a piece close to the bottom just make sure you thin the glaze a little bit wipe it down really well like wipe it really well with a sponge because i don't want it running oh i did a question on story night yeah starry night's a runner too one okay good question good question so technically two but not two full dips starry night is an iron-based glaze iron-based glazes tend to flux quite a lot so don't cobalt glazes and so what i did is i did that bloop dip and i did one dip and then i did just another little dip on the rim just a little bit on that rim bloop and it does this gorgeous right there so you can do another dip i did not double dip on the plate because i didn't want to risk the plate running and sticking to my shelf so this only had one dip still gorgeous the bowl i pushed it by double dipping the just very rim just the rim it it does encourage it to flux a little more to melt a bit more but be careful if you do that don't go too far down yeah another question is there a way to know before firing which glazes run and which don't well it all depends on how high you're firing because if you push it to the top temp of those glazes they're going to run a little more how thick it is right because thicker glazes run more and really it's trial and error and that's why we do tests that's why you should always test your glazes first time you're using them and if you want to see what i like to use for test pieces i like to extrude these little make little mini vases or planters with them and you know you just make your extrusion and then you make a slab and you stick it on the bottom we actually did this in extruding class we extruded a vase a slab extruded vase so this is red hook one of the brooklyn line with cream on top i wanted to see how the cream would run and melt and these are good tests i have some where i only glaze half because i know that even if it's a really bad runner just glazing half we should be okay it shouldn't run so much that it sticks to the shelf so these are a good test piece i also will make i'll use these little guys this was actually a glaze test piece this was a wheel thrown little little piece i think i did in my throwing off the hump class this is smoky purple with cream on top and i know it looks gray let me hold the gray up you can see the difference see here's the gray with cream on top here's smoky purple the smoky purple is more of a charcoal gray the fog gray here is um more of a light like elephant gray i don't know if that's actually a term for a gray color but that's what i think of when i look at it so that the smoky purple is beautiful i love it but it's kind of more of a gray than a purple right but this is a good way to test because i was testing how cream would look and when i over dipped that cream that's just one nice thick dip of cream and it turned out beautifully also these little guys these are like little soy sauce bowls or condiment dishes that are thrown also off the hump this is aqua with my chan this is shadow blue with mai chan now shadow blue with my chan is gorgeous i don't i don't use it very much just because i'm always trying other glazes but it's like coastal blue and chun and cream are like the three go-to's for over dipping for me like i'll have a glaze and i want to put something on top i'll pick one of those three i think one was like the icing like glaze icing you just put them on and it always looks good uh question uh do you do two dips on shadow blue as well nope just one just one on the shadow blue if your glaze is thin you might need to do a second dip but really just one and actually i have a bunch of shadow blue examples to show you so here's one dip of shadow blue with cream on top so you can see shadow blue on the inside shadow blue on the outside and then the cream is a runner and i dipped it to about here on the cream and you can see it ran almost another inch so when you're dipping these you might only want to dip it about a third of the way down for that second coat of glaze because it's going to melt more and run but the shadow blue that's just one dip and if you go thicker with the shadow blue it'll be darker more opaque well it doesn't really go opaque as far as filling in texture it just is more dense of a color more intense and actually i have some shadow blue i'm going to show you now so here is a piece that had a lot of texture and i'm not sure here's an example as well i can show with a leaf and so i used black under glaze to highlight the texture wiped back and then put shadow blue on top and i'll switch it around so you can and i did the same thing with this leaf and it really lets the the texture show and the shadow blue it's very very subtle but it's a nice way to use that celedon glaze to bring out a texture so that's um that's it on a plate that's with this is the batik floral pattern and here's just a leaf a beach leaf from out front of this right over here out in front of the studio just one of the trees that hangs out all right now we're going to do the celadons so clayscapes has their stoneware line they have their celadons and then they have their brooklyn line i break them up into those three categories i know they have it a little differently they just have the brooklyn broken off separately from the celadons they're they're all together with their signature glazes but for me it just helps me to categorize the types of glazes solid on glazes are translucent they will let your texture show through so they're the glaze you want to use when you do a lot of hand carving there are glaze you want to use when you have a gorgeous texture or stamp imprint that you want to show off so these are kind of my go-to when i do something highly textured amber cell it on right here kind of looks like a root beer float on this one and it has the cream on the rim so if you look at that rim you'll see that cream it's gorgeous it's so nice and then on the candy dish ish you have a question yeah uh are you firing to come five on all of these i'll cone five cone five with a ten minute hold although last time i fired i did a thirteen crazy i know no i did a 13 minute hold just wanted to see how much of a difference it made didn't really make a difference but yes these are cone 5 on laguna b mix 5 and some of them are on 60 some of them are laguna number 16 porcelain and some are on laguna 90 and laguna 80 but i don't think i have any 90 out right now so this is shadow blue dipped to here and then after it dried i turned it over and i dipped from here to here in the smoky purple so i got this candy dish that transitions from blue to purple and then i did another one a little different black under glaze applied first wiped back we're going to do some under glaze and wiping back in a second and then i dipped it in the shadow blue and this is my orbe which is a grass green glaze it's very similar to tim's dark celadon which clayscapes currently has now my oribe will be available this fall so we're going to have that glaze coming to you all you'll be able to get my oribe green it's a beautiful grass green glaze so this is a way to do two glazes that kind of do an ombre transition we've got more so these are not cone nine glazes here right now the clay and everything i'm using in my l l kiln the glazes and the clay i use there are cone five some of the glazes are cone six but they can always go to cone five now my gas kiln that i have out back that i built about 14 years ago my big 16 cubic foot gas kiln that guy's a cone 9 cone 10 kiln we were planning on firing it this summer but as many of you know this year has been a little uncertain so i'm not sure if we're going to get that done this year but usually i only fire in the summertime that's just because uh it's there's reasons and i just leave it at that but we'll see we might get some cone 910 firings you got a question i got a couple a couple questions let me just show some yumminess with the dry glazes what do you mix just water that's it it's easy and then the second one is um uh she's needing some of that cream yes you do you have to know if she can mix it with amaco or coyote glaze so i have over dipped the cream on amaco i have never used coyote glazes i've over dipped the cream on amaco on georgie's and on mako and it has been good it has been really good so yeah it's a really simple glaze that goes well with pretty much everything out there so i showed these two plates this is a hand building soft square plate here's a tray using lace but you notice how i used black under glaze to highlight it and then i brushed on shadow blue which is a dippable glaze but i just brushed it on and then i took my oribe and blobbed a little bit of orabe on it too did the same thing here with this this is actually both these are classes this is carving a radiate radiating pattern i believe and then this was doing a snack tray and these this lives in my house i had to grab it from the set that's in my house so that i could show you all but this is my favorite go-to for like hummus and vegetables or if you have little ones and you want to make them their own special little tray so they can have their snacks on it it's great if your little ones don't eat vegetables because you can put some hummus or something healthy on one side some salsa and then you know maybe some hummus chips or some vegetables cut up so it's a great way to to you know make your children their own snack tray and they most likely will eat the food you put on the snack tray all right oh the amber celedon with cream i wanted to show it again because i want to show it to you on a form that's vertical so you can see how the cream runs down so this is the little espresso demi or demi-task set cute i gotta give instagram folks a chance to look they can't see everything they're left out tonight they're over there all right i think now we're about to talk about the brooklyn line so the um brooklyn line is they're like rainbow colors bright colored glazes i love all of them i like layering them with each other and i really like putting cream on them so i've got some examples and i don't think i have all of them here right now but uh i've got most of them so this is the red hook now if you want a beautiful bright red you want this red hook and this is cream on top one dip of the red one dip of the cream easy i don't know if we'll do red hook this is sunset park i call this my creamsicle combination because it's the sunset park with the cream dipped on top and it's like a cloud settled on a bowl and just loved it so much it just sighed and just said i'll stay here and just melt it down the side i'm gonna show the folks instagram so i can see it too it's gorgeous right that's that's this is like if you have your cereal or breakfast in this you're gonna have a good day and i do mugs with this too yeah no you can't have it this is how things go um this is flat bush right here so that is kind of the um this is their sort of acid green color but it's not it's beautiful it's really really pretty with cream on it and then they have bushwick which is there and i hope i don't have that backwards that's like their egg yolk yellow and i like to use it on the inside of cups because just look look inside how how nice that is on the inside of the cup and on the outside is a park slope and cream so that's what's on the outside of this cup here's park slope without so park slope and crema without yellow so park slope inside and out and cream yellow on the inside with park slope and cream so you can see how that cream kind of breaks and it really creates this pattern almost a hairs fur pattern they call it really nice so you love clayscapes you end up spending as much on shipping as you do glazes right there but they are shipping is always so much right but you could go get them if it's near you you should also look clayscapes has glazed distributors all over the country so find out the nearest one to you maybe you can save on shipping right you might be able to find somebody close to you that you could just make a little day trip and pick it up and then you don't pay anything for shipping then you take all the money you would have spent on shipping and buy glazes at least that's how i that's what i do this is one of their glazes that's new to me it's called brighton beach with cream on top super cute glaze and then this is their crown heights which is their purple with cream on top and then that is the bushwick i think it's bushwick is the more green one and flatbush is the more egg yellow let me look nope do i have them backwards have it backwards have it all twisted about flatbush hold on i'm looking everybody because i want to get this right bushwick okay bushwick is the egg one flatbush is the green one see the difference you should just remember bushes are green i should remember bushes are green what would i do with the flat though i want flat to flat yellow flat yellow but it's not flat it's really pretty but they both have bush yes it's flat bush and bushwick it's a little confusing i must say that's my only complaint i love both the glazes but my poor brain can only hold so much information and keeping flatbush and bushwick correct it's almost too much it's almost more than i can bear ah guess what that's all that's everything no we're not done you got a question go ahead how do you get the defined dark lines on your trays and plates um so are we what are we talking about the black that i have here yes so i'm going to actually show you how i do that i use black under glaze we brush it on we wipe it back and then i glaze on top so what i've done is fill that recessed area with black under glaze and instead of it being light there are relying on the glaze to provide the depth i'm putting depth in there i'm like forcing it to be darker and it's a great way for highlighting lace carving stamping all kinds of texture it's just a great way to show that off so i know i showed you a lot of glazes um i buy a lot of glaze everybody because this is what i do i make pots for a living and i teach people how to make pots and i teach people how to glaze right so i need to have all the glazes so i can teach you that's and that's been my motto for years i have to buy them all because i need to teach you [Music] um if you're a potter selling your work you know you need to have a nice selection of glazes and you have to know your customer base and what they like so what you will do is you'll build up a we call them stable of glazes or a line of glazes that you use and you'll just go back to those glazes over and over but you have to pick what glazes you're going to go with to begin with right so you have to experiment and try things out so i thought we would use this little plate here as a test to show you how i do the black under glaze and then we'll put the blue on top now remember there'll be a kiln opening sunday so everything i glaze tonight and i'm going to glaze tomorrow and friday too so there'll be all those pieces in the kiln as well so we're going to do this i have my camera set up a little different this week because we're going to move over here to the glazing so i don't have the overhead set up right now but i will hold it up and show it to y'all we'll do it that way does clay king carry them i don't think clay king carries clay scapes glazes i know sheffield pottery does i know the tilted kiln does i believe um and then there's you know clayscapes and syracuse there's also uh what's the name of the place up in canada yeah you're trying to think of it too so i'm going to take a brush this is called a sumi brush s-u-m-i and i'm just going to get some black under glaze now i've already watered my underglaze down in the bottle because i don't ever use it straight like thick and i'm just going to brush it on and fill in everything so i'm going to coat the entire thing with black under glaze and i do have a class it's free class on mixing clayscapes pottery glazes so if you are new to mixing them up i show how they come to you they come in a box i actually have a box over here i'll show you they come in dry form you add your water and then you mix it up put amaranth in canada okay you mix it up and then you put it through a sieve and then you use it it's um it's pretty easy and the great thing about their glazes is you buy five pounds at a time and that makes a little over a gallon of glaze i think that's i think that's good right there so once you get the entire plate covered in the under glaze and you could use a different color you don't have to use black but if you really want a darker line underneath you need to use a darker clay a darker under glaze color right so north carolina area i don't think they have one yet but i have to tell everybody this clayscape's pottery they would love to have more distributors so if you have a clay supplier near you that you think should carry them tell your clay supplier you want them to carry clayscape's glazes and guess what most of them will but the thing is clay suppliers need to hear it from you that you want to have those glazes because they if clayscape's pottery calls somebody up and says hey we carry our glazes if nobody's asked for them there are so many glazes out there it would be um unlikely they would say yes so tell your clay suppliers hey get clayscape's glazes they're amazing and then you don't have to pay for shipping you can just go get them so you see i'm using the sponge to wipe back and the texture is starting to pop out see how it's popping out see that look who we're getting over there and i'm just using this sponge and i'm just turning and wiping now the texture on here are all little mini rolling pins that sandbao studio now makes they're little textured rolling pins and i actually think i made this during clay share con didn't i make this then this is their honeycomb pattern a leaf pattern and like a stoney rock pattern so we're wiping this all off and i'm going to wipe the sides although if you wanted to do a black edge you could do a band of black all the way around the edge all right and that's it it's been waxed i've already waxed the bottom and it's ready for dipping so i wax my pots when i dip them because you're dipping the entire thing in the glaze and if you don't wax the bottoms that's going to absorb the glaze and then you'll have to be scrub scrub scrub scrub scrub scrub scrub to get it off and you don't want to do that so wax your bottoms folks when you're dipping and pouring when you're brushing on glaze you can often control the glaze a little better so you might be able to get away with not doing that all right so we are going to transition we have another question got two things two questions just bought her first cream glaze you're gonna love it oh my gosh and it's my favorite people next to my child uh riley and i had good birthdays yes kevin and riley had very good birthdays they we had a nice time with the family i actually took a couple days off you might have not seen me on social media quite as much because i took a couple days off to spend with my daughter and my husband for their birthdays so yeah they had great days and thank you everybody who wish them happy birthday and you know and everybody else who's had birthdays and anniversaries the last few days happy birthday happy anniversary to you all okay uh one last thing i'm gonna show before we switch over the planter class coil planter class is up on clayshare.com if you haven't made one yet what you're waiting for go make it it's with coils anybody can do it you can do it but it's not glazed with clayscape's glazes so we're not going to talk about the glaze i talk about it in the class i actually show you um we show you how i glazed it i didn't actually glaze it in the class but we talked about it so you have to go watch the class all right let's glaze some stuff so we're going to transition over there i've got a box of clay escapes glaze that i will show you over here what it looks like and all the folks on instagram y'all come over here hi everybody i get you all to myself all right we're going to be mixing glaze and i'm thinking that's going to work there and i'm going to bring that light oh that's so bright okay you all get to see my legs this is this is awesome right so when you get clayscape's pottery glazes actually move the camera a little bit because we're going to be more this way they come in a box they come in a box like this and they're dry and you mix them up and i've shown how to do that on youtube and on clay share so you can do that all right so we're going to do shadow blue first and i've got all my glazes spread out over here and we can do a transition i keep my glazes now if you are buying one five pound box of clayscape's glaze you just need one of these two and a half gallon buckets right here these guys and it makes a little more than a gallon the celadon glazes will actually make more glaze you'll get more glaze out of the five pounds than you get from the others because you want them a tiny bit thinner yeah just a little bit thinner so you do you actually get more bang for your buck with the celidons so we're going to use the shadow blue which is a celadon and we're going to glaze that plate and i think we're gonna do purple what do you guys think purple shadow blue and i have the shadow purple so it's gonna be the shadows i've gotta figure out where i put it do y'all see it the aqua cleansing pottery red cream it's over here we're just going to start with the blue do you want that for an inset ah hi you can see the the stair mass that's that's the pile of we don't talk about that no one can see it yet all right well we'll see because i want to see my big mess over there studio is not always clean everyone alright so these have all before i started the broadcast i mixed them all up but glazes settle so you gotta mix them again so we're gonna do that [Applause] all right so i just stirred it up because i want to make sure that you know nothing is settled to the bottom oh here's the shadow purple right here next to me and the big decision i have to do is decide am i going to dip this this way or this way or this way or triangle no we're going to go this way so i'm just going to dip it about three quarters of the way in that's the plan into this blue so dip it stop oop i went a little further but you know what it's fine and then i just wait for it to drip off now let me show you the back do you see how the wax is starting to repel do you see how that's happening and sometimes i will come in with a sponge and i will just quickly remove do you see how easy the glaze comes off now i'll double check that before i put it in the kiln but that's easy right compared to brushing it on so this has to set you'll notice that the tone will change from you know a light tone to a dark tone it's dark where it's wet as it gets lighter it's drying so this has to set for a little bit it's going to take a little longer than normal because i did saturate it with water when i was wiping off the under glaze so that's um you know something that i accounted for got a question so the five pounds of dry makes one or two gallons depends about one and a half gallons one and a quarter one and a half maybe one and three quarters it just depends on the glaze and how thin you want it sometimes i will thin a glaze a little more than the recommendation because i like the way it looks thin i like the shadow blue thin i like the smoky purple i like um actually like the amber kind of thin so i like all the celadon's a little thin i like my um brooklyn line a little thick so this is the smoky purple and i'm thinking we're going to glaze a cup or a bowl or a plate let's do smoky purple what do we think do we want to do a cup i just love it let me grab the example look how yummy that is i think i want to do a little drinking cup with this right so and we're also going to over dip that plate but the plate's got to dry and i have this shape cup right here which i think's like kind of perfect for this so i think we'll use this so let me move the shadow blue smoky purple and i'm going to show you all how i glaze the inside of a cup and glaze the outside and then we'll over dip with we'll over dip with the smoky with the cream on the smoky purple we're doing a lot of glazing so all right we're going to pour the inside first when i dip and pour and when i brush on glazes i always do the inside first so now we're just going to pour it out and turn and see the glaze comes just nicely pouring out and then you just sort of let it roll around because there's a little bead of glaze in here and you're just going to let that roll until it until it stops because you don't want it to drip down and so we've got the inside glaze perfectly perfect perfect and look at it dry that's that's a perfect inside glazing job right there in 20 years i couldn't tell you how many cups i've glazed thousands you want some questions from facebook i always want questions oh questions from everybody always do you have a technique to tell that the glaze is the right consistency i do have a technique um so when i learn to make glazes i learned in north carolina at the university of north carolina and our professor taught us not to use a hydrometer we did the finger dip because he was trained by a north carolinian folk potter and that's how they did it so this is how i learned i never used a hydrometer for years to check my glazes i still don't i don't do it i mix them to eye so i was taught you mixed to the consistency of heavy cream for most glazes over time you'll get to know your glazes so some you'll mix a little thicker some a little thinner so let's test this the finger dip test now i i'll bring you up close to all can see you want it so that let the camera catch up come on camera you can do it the camera doesn't want to focus in on my fingers um so you can see actually the indent here of where my fingernail starts let me see if i do this if it'll focus on my hand there we go folks over instagram just suck i'll get to you so do you see that you can actually see the indents of where my nail bed is if you can't see that you see that you can actually see the in right the nail bed that for me is perfect that's a perfect consistency um now i know there's a lot of people who are they don't want to put their hands in their glazes and stuff there there's been a lot of study on that and the tiny bit of exposure you're getting on your hands is minimal and i honestly don't stick my hand in my glazes every time i use them i can tell by just looking and you will too over time you get to know your materials so after 20 years of doing this i i know my materials but when i'm teaching students and you're using clayscape's glazes they give you the hydrometer reading so you can use that and you can measure it that way if you don't want to do the fingernail test just a little bit so i've got a bucket of clean water i'm going to rinse off my hand and my little measuring cup so that can dry but that's the traditional folk method you know this is the way potter's made glazes for for thousands of years because they didn't have the technology to do it they didn't have a hydrometer they didn't have these things so um this is how i learned but it's not the only way and there are people out there who will not do anything except a more scientific way and that's fine but this is just how i learned and this has worked for me for all this time and i i mean i guess if i was testing a bunch of new glazes and i was having a lot of problems and they weren't working i might switch to using a hydrometer because i wanted to figure out what was going on but so far that's not happened in 20 years we'll see we got more time though i got a few more years left on this earth so we'll see what happens now we're ready to do our second dip of this shadow blue and our shadow purple we're going to do shadow purple to about here so let's just drop like that and then i'm just going to hold it at an angle while it drips so that can drip drip drip drip drip and again on the back just going to wipe this so my plan is to do this little plate now this will have to get wiped again um as it dries to make sure i get all that that glaze off so i'm gonna do this little plate gonna do that cup i'm trying to not run over time too much i do want to do a plate where i brush on the glaze just to show you how you can brush a dipping glaze on and you don't have to add anything special to a dipping glaze if you don't want to all right here's the cup we did the inside just a minute ago it's all ready and i put my hands inside and then i just spread my fingers out and that allows me to hold the cup and then just dip it in and i'm going to dip it to right to the tippy top but not so far down that it flows into the cup so i'm just going to dip it down right to there stop and when i pull it up i just hold it at an angle and what's happening is all of the glaze is coming over here to one side pulling and then running off and so i still will wipe the bottom you can actually watch the glaze dry from the top down and it'll get lighter to darker question uh on is is that clayscape's wax um the wax here yes clayscapes has a wax i wax the bottoms well no this one was done before so some of these cups i had waxed the other day i was using mr mark's wax but the ones i did tonight i use clayscape's wax so you'll see some that the wax is clear some it's pink the pink ones are mr mark's wax but the others are clay scapes so i will actually go in and scrub off any excess glaze because i want a really crisp clean foot so i do that at the end though i do that after so i'm just lightly wiping and we're going to sit this over here and let that one finish drying and then we're going to over dip in cream now you don't want to wait too long to use the cream as an over dip and if you look right here do you see the very tiny bit of the rim i'm going to dip it back in just quick because i want to get the whole thing covered in the purple so it's not technically a second dip it was just kind of filling in any area that didn't have any glaze and we're gonna go right to the cream so usually i will dip it set it on the table and then i'll go right into my cream the cream really likes to go on before the piece is completely bone dry the glaze is completely dry now i think i keep my cream maybe it's slightly thicker than playscapes recommends just slightly now i i know this is going to run i know this is going to run a lot so wherever i put the cream i know i'm going to get another half inch to an inch of run so if i glaze with cream to about here it's probably going to run to here that's pretty nice so that's a little more than a third but not quite a half so that's where i'm going to go and i i have a question about it is liz wants to know if there is a reason that you don't do a full dip for the second color oh it would run and stick to the shelf it would be too thick it would be way too much glaze and so what i want is i want it running you could push it so you could test and do one like glaze halfway with your second dip and see how far it runs and then maybe go two thirds and then maybe go three quarters and see where you're getting but as your glazes build up they're going to flux more and melt more and then they'll run so you just want to be careful it doesn't run and stick to the shelf so we're going to do about a little a little more than a third tiny bit just like that and again hold it at a little bit of an angle and roll it around that little bead now if i flipped it right over what would happen is that bead could roll down the front and so sometimes you'll see that with a glaze you'll see the glaze has run and you'll have just like a little ribbon of glaze it's not a bad thing and it's not really even a problem um it's just you know you might not like it entirely up to you some people like that look and you could encourage that and just put a few drips on it you got a good question i like good questions not contaminate the cream if your other glaze was not yet dry well the glaze is dried enough it's not completely dry on the pot but it's not wet like it's not if i touched it i wouldn't smear the glaze so you wait until you wait until it's dry but you don't let it sit for like 10 minutes because what happens then is when you over dip on the cream sometimes the cream will try to pull off so it's just a little tiny bit of um you know getting it at the right time so you could do a second dip just on the rim of cream of the rim with the cream but if your cream is a little thick like mine is you could end up with a problem and it could pull away so don't do that unless yours is really thin so that's it we're gonna let that dry and we'll wipe the bottoms and that'll go in the kiln got another question uh yeah you did the same glaze inside yeah inside and out i did and you just completely submerged the cup well if i had done that let's talk about that and here's when it's not done not glaze if i had submerged the cup all the way into the glaze and it filled inside well now i've got glaze on the outside glaze on the inside i could have used glazing tongs and you can do that right you can put your tongs in dip it down and then pull it up and pour it out but what's going to happen is you're going to get two little bumps here and two little bumps on the inside plus you'll get more of those runners that i was talking about where the glaze kind of runs a little bit so um yeah it's not it's not an impossible way to do it you could do it that way but it's um i don't i like the look better and i think you get better results doing it the way where we fill the inside and then dip the outside and i do bowls the same way so i see on instagram we have a question do i do this full time yes i do this full time yeah this is this is my job and you know i have segwayed from being a full-time production potter where i just made pots all day every day and then sold them through galleries and art fairs and craft fairs um to now well to teaching as a professor at college after i did my graduate degree and now teaching online with clayshare and still making pots and so yeah my career as a potter has totally changed from when i started it's evolved through many stages but just like everything life's a journey and i love every second of it and can you make a living i see that as can you do ceramics as a profession yes you can but it's a lot of work you just got to be willing to do it it's um you know i think it's it's pretty awesome personally because i had i say that's just been my life and i don't regret a second of it but i have had very long days for many many years just be prepared to work hard just like for anything um worth having and yeah it's great so we're gonna do that starry night aqua combo because i know you all want to see that yeah go ahead and ask uh would the cream act like a light flux to other glazes like hydrangeas yes so exactly so i'm using the cream as kind of like a flux right that's exactly what i'm doing so i'm looking for my aqua right now if anybody sees it let me know there it is under the amber solid on yes so that cream glaze does act a lot like a flux very similar to the mako flux and when you put it on top of another glaze it will you know help that glaze melt a bit more and push it and cause those drips so that's why i use it because it's a really nice it's like icing on the cake so let's mix this up this is the turquoise sorry this is the aqua they do have a turquoise this is aqua all right we're going to do a bowl because i told y'all we're going to do a bowl and i'm going to do that side dip let me grab this is the glaze effect we're going for right here and we're going gonna go ahead and dip it you got you're laughing uh barbara wants to know if i'm able to do pottery after having one that's too funny no he can't i'm gonna dip this in three quarters ah two thirds now three quarters of the way and then pull it out and you see how it's glazed we got a little bare spot right here glazed glazed and then we're going to let this dry a bit and then we're going to dip it in starry night so we're dipping starry night now here's something i'm going to show you guys i have not i've not used my aqua glaze um in about a year so uh because i hadn't used it in about a year and guess what um you should sieve your glaze you should totally sieve your glaze when you haven't used it for a year you should and i'm going to show you exactly why do you see those bumps on there so what has happened over the last year is some of the salts that the minerals that are naturally in the materials that are in the glaze has separated out and um i did not sieve this i just grabbed it off my gla like out of my glaze storage table and just mixed it up and used it we're gonna see what happens if you don't sieve it in the kiln opening but i'm going to tell you right now you should sieve if you haven't used it in a long time i just quickly stirred it i didn't check so you shouldn't have the little bumps that i have we're going to see what happens it it won't be the normal smooth um finish so what i will do is tomorrow i will sieve that glaze and i will glaze another piece so we're gonna keep this one it's a beautiful bowl i know but we're still gonna go with it as is with that glaze and see it as an example and then we'll have one that's been sieved so i can show you the difference what happens because i think this is all important stuff because i don't mind if i ruin a piece for you guys all right so that's the aqua first now we're going to dip it in starry night let me grab my starry night there it is and then i want to do a plate if we have time but i think we're pretty close we're going over aren't we i only have a little bit of starry night i need a bigger bucket that's that's not enough no that's enough for tonight actually no i thought i had another box so when i buy five pounds i mix it in the little buckets when i buy two five pound boxes or ten pounds i mix it in the bigger one or if i make a full ten thousand gram batch from scratch i'll mix it in the bigger i'll mix it in the bigger ones all right so i don't have a ton of glaze so i'm going to tilt my bucket up on the side and then i'm going to dip this in and i'm just going to roll it around a little bit there ooh look at that you can already see you can already see there's a nice line but you can see all the chunkies that were there on the aqua so we'll see what happens with that uh i don't know i don't think it'll be perfect it'll end up being a test bowl right so this will become a donation to empty bowls probably it won't be there won't be anything wrong with it it'll be completely serviceable it just won't look as good as it could all right i want to quickly do a plate where we brush on a glaze that's a dip in poor glaze because i said we would let's do the aqua let's do the aqua i mean no let's do the amber actually we did the aqua we haven't done amber here's the amber salad on all right so this is a good technique to use if you are glazing something that is too big to fit in your bucket just a quick little whiz up now my favorite brushes to do this with are these bamboo brushes right here they they come so you can actually break them apart and get little mini brushes i think i got this from china clay art that's sand bao studios i think i bought it from them you could also use a big fat fan brush these hold a lot of glaze so either one of these would work and this is a number six fan and this is from mako so you can use either one of these i'm going to rinse my bucket my brush out in my bucket just to start with this one has been used in my chun glaze last so it's not it's probably going to get dyed now red all right i have waxed with the clay escapes wax and i'm going to start at the back and i'm just going to dip and i'm just going to brush on this is not a brush on glaze this is a dip and pour glaze everyone but do you see what am i doing i am brushing it on and is it working absolutely positively completely glaze the back could you glaze the inside of the foot yep you can i don't want to but you can um it will work with the black under glaze you'll actually see the under glaze through it if you want to but i want to leave it light clay so now we're going to wait just a sec it's basically dry we're going to flip it over and then we're going to do the front so just swirl your brush and then just start look at this swirl swirl swirl up on the sides there was a little spider i think that fell in the bucket because there's a little get off there and then brush your sides like that done just glaze the plate with a dip and pour glaze so it's just kind of that swirly motion you do and then you just go back and get the edges now there's a little bit there any spots where you're seeing the bare clay through it just go back in and just tap it this glaze will melt a lot you won't really see the brush marks with these solid on glazes you won't see it so now it's actually it's actually dry enough we can put the cream on right now so let me grab the cream i don't usually glaze crouched on the floor i mean i'm usually bent over but now i do like this and so um let's use this sumi one of these those chinese calligraphy japanese calligraphy brushes let's put the cream on just like that brush and i'm just pulling it along the edge here just like that and that'll be enough cream you'll see it and if it's a little uneven it's just gonna melt so it's not that big of a deal this is how i often glaze my plates because when they get really big it's hard to get them in the buckets it's really hard and i want it to look good so now i'm actually going to go back and i'm just going to do the outside edge right here with the cream and if you're worried about contaminating your big bucket of glaze you could scoop a little cup of the cream glaze out and you could sit and work with the the glaze and you could actually do that with the bucket of the amber glaze that i use too so there it is yeah it's a little ragged and uneven looking that's all going to melt you won't see that it's going to look gorgeous so brushed on glaze brushed on dip and poor glaze how awesome is that all right i'm going to move on over moving on over so uh only thing left that i have to do for all these pieces the only thing i have left to do for all these pieces is just wipe the bottoms to make sure they are good and there's no glaze on the bottoms at all and i can put them in the kiln and they'll be ready to go now a couple things i want to mention i've seen a lot of questions this last week asking about plates warping and things warping you want to make sure your shelves when you're doing the glaze firing we're just going to talk about here make sure your shelves are not bowed or warped because if they are your plate will bow or warp to con to form to that um the if you have a big a big piece or any piece spanning two shelves that can be a problem because that can cause warping also if you have the edge of a plate like if there was an edge of this plate hanging over a shelf a lot of heat's going to hit this edge it can cause it to warp so just think about that alright so anything else same other questions i think we got everything so all right last thing i want to mention you know we're giving away the clayscapes glazes next week we're going to announce the winners we're going to give away four six packs of clayscape glazes um is that we do have a new code with clayscape so you can save it's called explore10 so you can use that code and you will save on clayscapes glazes you will save on amaco pints on speedball under glazes that's the underglaze we used right you will save on cheryl mud tools you will save on zeem tools you will save on we added studio pro bats gr pottery forms and there's one more and i can't remember it giffen grip got them all and i think we're going to have coming soon some deals on bmix alright that's what i have i will continue glazing for those of you who are premium members you can watch the broadcast on the clay share app only premium members can access it there that's just the way it is um you can also watch it on clayshare.com right no just the app just the app just the oh clayshare.com okay i was like what's going on i thought so see i knew so you can watch it on clayshare.com on the clayshare app and also we do have a private facebook group and if you're in that group we'll be broadcasting there as well so you can watch it all right we glazed four pots that's it this is why it takes three days to glaze a kiln full of pots no it's fine you could see though sunday though at noon we'll open the kiln and we will see them all together all right everyone thank you for joining me remember check out all of my classes almost 300 of them on clayshare.com if you are not a member yet sign up we have a seven day free trial you can check everything out we have the free live broadcasts too and always the kiln opening so you can come be a part of our clayshare family and hang out and enjoy the pottery journey all right everyone have a great night i will catch you next week for the live drawing of the winners of the clay glazes i

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