Layering Glazes with Amaco Glazes

hey everybody welcome on into clay share con day four this is the amaco glazing session i am jessica putnam phillips the founder of clay share and clay share khan and we are going to be doing some really great combos with amaco glazes and i've got a bunch here and a few more off to the side and so amico glazes were the first glazes i ever used when i transitioned from dipping and pouring glazes into brush-on glazes and the first glazes i ever tried was the amacoceladon line now amaco has expanded immensely in the years since then and there are i don't know if i'd say i think there's hundreds of glazes there's lots and lots of glazes so it can be crazy overwhelming to pick glazes and if you think about there's so many glazes imagine all the glaze combos it's limitless the glaze combos that you can come up with so i'm going to do some of my favorite combos with amaco i think these are combos that are really great for texture some of them i'll show you and they're really great if you're starting out as a paint-on glazer a brush-on glazer or just starting out in general and honestly i think some of the combos are so good they should be used always so we're going to do that hi hi hi again howdy howdy yes the broken dish we're going to talk about that that didn't just happen so i have got some of my favorite amaco combos here i got a few to share with you i got three and i think the plan is to do a modification cause i'm out of one of the glazes so this one right here is ancient copper applied first and then textured turquoise on top look at the bottom with that ancient copper look how gorgeous that is isn't that lovely this is one of my most favorite glazes ever and it's just textured turquoise on the inside three coats three coats of ancient copper on the outside three coats of textured turquoise on b mix so nice the dish i'll tell you how the dish broke we'll talk about that i didn't break it we'll talk about how dishes get broke like that and we'll talk about that break specifically because there's certain kinds of breaks now this one is my let's see did i grab the glaze for it this is three glazes this is smoky merlot as you can tell that's on last it is my oolong gloss on first you can't really tell smokey merlot on top and then a little band of we're going to be using tourmaline a little band of tourmaline i might have used textured turquoise but i'm out of that so and then this dish um is the glaze combo from the image that we used for this tutorial this is amaco deep sea with seaweed on top and it's amazing for texture and it's just an amazing glaze all together so how did this bowl break this bowl was not made wrong it was perfectly fine this is an impact fracture this is what happens when people in your life put dishes in cabinets then they don't scooch them all the way to the back and then they slam cabinet doors on them so this fracture that has happened is from impact but you can see how nice and even the thickness of that bowl is because it's a slab built bowl it's perfectly the same all the way through and so this sadly was my daughter's christmas present one year not this past year a few years ago everybody got bowls glazed the way they wanted so i have made her a replacement which we're gonna glaze together with an upgrade texture on the back too so you love the smoky merlot well my my children and you know this comes with everybody you have people in your lives they break pottery and i have a collection of pottery that my family does not touch i have a cup wall because i have some cups i've paid five hundred dollars for so when you have a collection where you have an artist that rarely makes cups like they do five cups a year and their pots sell for thousands of dollars normally and you get a chance to buy a cup you buy it and you don't let anybody touch it yeah so they know they can't touch those cups but the things i make them i'm fine they can break them all right let's clean everything up it's a super glazy day and then after this glazing tutorial we are going to be doing a hand building demo using some garrity tools you know and i'll talk more about that i've got a lot of great things to say i love garrity tools and i just i want to take up the amaco time for the garrity time now amiko has some cool new things out they've got some spray underglazes and other things but i'm going to focus on the celadons right now if you are looking for a perfect glaze for texture check out the amaco seladon line they are fabulous for that so here i have the amaco deepsea and we're gonna apply that and i do you see how i wrote i wrote on the back can i slip to the front look what i wrote on the back i didn't sign my name i am a love mom for this one so this bowl was made by love mom so when you make people in your lives pottery which i hope you do i hope you make pottery for people you love in your life um you know you can sign your name or you can say love mom or whoever they are right to you you could say to my beloved daughter from mom to my the best sister ever best grandma best aunt best dad because dad's brothers sons they all need presents uncles don't leave them out so i'm gonna do two coats of the deep sea on the back and this is a mako number eight fan brush really easy to glaze with and i'm not really waiting for it to dry all the way i'm going right in with the second coat i'm not going to do a second coat in the center i'm just going to leave that be that'll be fine all right outside's done look how fast that is now i i came from the dipping and pouring glaze world where things you know go pretty fast so when i started brushing i wanted things to go faster but this is pretty fast right [Music] let's go ahead and flip it over and you can see that gorgeous texture that's made with my moroccan tile rolling pin and you can get that from sharon hoppy h-o-p-p-e designs.com that's we'll just do the overhead that's this rolling pin right here am i going to use a wear board i can make it easier on me thanks kevin's like ah i'm going to keep her on her toes using a little wear board just makes it easier because then you just lift the board up not the whole piece all right we're going to start with three coats of the deep sea and this is one of the celadons that you don't have to worry about going too thick in it hiding texture and i found the celadones hold their color the best at cone five so if you fired a cone six and you're trying to use the lavender amico celadon and the cherry blossom pink one those colors they really tend to to wash out at cone six they they like to be on a bright light clay and they really like cone five and you could put texture on dark clay you just would want to use a different glaze do i have a video on making this dish we've made them in live broadcasts in the past i haven't done a formal class on it but uh i should right the hexagon bowl or did i do a hex bowl people who've watched all my classes will know did i do a hex bowl i did no no it's in the pie plate class i'm pretty sure the pipe yes so i know it doesn't make any sense at all but if you go watch the pie plate class it's the same thing except this is a smaller using the smaller forms so there is a class yes it's a pie plate one let's get the rim i was like how could i have possibly not done a class on this you have that rolling pin and you love it i know it's a good one isn't it so pretty so that was the second coat i'm just going to show you my thickness of my glaze yogurt consistency i would say maybe slightly runny yogurt if your glaze is thicker than that you'll want to thin it down because then it doesn't flow very well it's hard to brush it on and for it to fill in the areas so you don't end up with little bare spots normally i would wait between three coats for it to dry completely you know just because i want to make sure that i haven't missed any areas looks pretty good right now though as it dries what happens is little bubbles will pop and you'll have a bare area so you just dab in there and fill that in when that happens all right now we're going to move on to the second color that i'm going to use for this it's the stacked hexagon forms exactly yep it is charlie you got it you know you know me um so the next glaze combo we're going to do is also going to use deep sea and it's one i've never tried because i am out of my textured turquoise where's my ball i'm out of my textured turquoise and i'm really sad about that but what that has done is made me look to other combinations with ancient copper and i want to do a blue and copper and i want a blue that'll work well for texture because this is a cup that we carved on a live broadcast a couple weeks ago so i'm going to use the deep sea on the bottom and have a little band come up to the top and then put the ancient copper on the top and on the inside or maybe i'll put the blue on the inside too and save that ancient copper because i got a lot more blue than i have ancient copper so i think that's what i'm going to do so this is quickly glazing the inside of a cup i can dip and pour slightly faster than this but not much honestly done you put two coats in there so let's glaze the bottom and i'm just going to go up to the where the carving stops and have a little band of it but not much and then i think where they come together maybe we'll do a band of something where they come together if you all have a suggestion for it let me know i'm just going to do a nice smooth line and if you glaze where you don't want glaze you can just go ahead and wipe it off with a sponge these celadons are so easy to work with they melt so well that you don't have to worry about brush strokes showing and the other thing about the cellodones is they're very stable they don't move meaning i don't have to worry about this glaze running i could have basically glazed that cone five to the foot to the floor and it would not have stuck to my kiln shelf cute right light flux over ancient copper is gorgeous i wonder um could also run so maybe we'll do that where they come together michelle flux all right and yeah we'll do that we'll do that let's do our second glaze on the inside we're just going to do two coats of this blue deep sea it's the darkest blue that shows texture really well now if you use their obsidian it's gorgeous but it doesn't it does not show texture as well it just doesn't i'm going to do another layer on the outside and then we're going to move on to the ancient copper all the lines i carved are going to show after this is fired the glaze will settle in them and the lines will be darker so it's perfect for carved or textured pieces snow where they come together oh like a white we have so many options we're gonna let's talk about it while i finish this the deep sea is lighter than the storm yes it's lighter than storm storms a nice glaze it's a little dark and it's more gray the deep sea is bluer and i don't see any little places that are unglazed sometimes you get little air little bubbles or something i'll just take my finger and smooth it out and i think jeff was talking about that too with the little tongue marks on glazing all right so we're going to go ahead and grab the seaweed seaweed seaweed is a potter's choice glaze from amico and it's a runner it's a runner um so i always put it on the rims and you can see this one right here that's just the seaweed nothing else i didn't put a flux on this the seaweed did that it ran like that ancient copper will be gorgeous on this i hope so i'm excited i'm excited for it so i'm hoping to glaze enough pieces to get a glaze firing going before i have my surgery it'll be my last glaze firing for i don't know how long because i won't be able to work for make pottery for for i don't know six weeks i think's what i'm told maybe eight so we'll be doing other classes and i might have some stuff in that reserve so the back side of this was a really beautiful finish um look at that where i did a band of the seaweed so let's flip this over and we'll do that now so just along the rim here so talking about the hex plates and that pie plate class when i i went through a like phase where all i wanted to make was pie plates you know because pie but also the plates that go along with it you know i made serving dishes i made cat food dishes i made dinner plates a nice deep dark groggy clay with texture in this shape as a plate with a cream or white glaze is to die for it's one of my favorites i love that combo so that's all i'm doing as far as the back goes i will clean the foot ring but the back is essentially done it's a really simple combo this needs to dry because i have to put a second coat on so while that's drying let's go on over to our cute little cup and get our ancient or ancient copper out just gonna figure where i put it that's the smoky merlot we're gonna get to that there it is so you are back playing racquetball three weeks after your surgery okay judy i'm hoping that i i follow that that trajectory that would be so good so we're not going to put any on the inside we're only going to put it on the outside i'm going to brush it all along here and i'm not going to let it come down into the carved because i'm going to do a band that will probably run a little bit of uh did we decide light flux i think we decided light flux there we go plus i like how that will show the way that amaco and mako glazes play so nicely together because they do a great class will be a tour of my mug item i should i am gonna do a tour of my mug collection and that's when i could do after the surgery yeah you're right that would be a fun one to show that kevin built me a special mug wall in the house i've shared photos of it but it's not the same as um it's not the same as seeing it in person is it you have to he has to build me a new one it's true so that's one coat of the ancient copper but this is going to need three to four coats you want to make sure you get plenty of the ancient copper on if not it just doesn't get that beautiful metallic it goes brown which is still nice but i'm really wanting that metallic finish put that here and i think i gotta go grab a bowl because i don't think i have the bowl i plan to do for the smoky merlot combo i mean i got this dip chiller set how much time do we have 350 what am i going to for 15. so this is a wheel thrown dip chiller set it's a class just so you know because i know you all asks you can learn how to make one of these fabulous things it also can be like dips and like dip and veggies standing up in it so we could do this with the smoky merlot um and that that really cool oolong gloss does it need a hold it does not need a hold oh well i i'm going to say that as far as i know the glaze doesn't need to hold but i always do a hold i always do a 10 minute hold so i should back up it might need a hold but i've never known that because i always do a 10 minute hold on my glaze firings so yes so maybe has i've used mako's light flux with amaco glazes i have cynthia and so far everything i've tried has been yummy mako light flux looks great i've tried it on almost all the celadons it's really pretty on the celadons i really like it on the light pink i like it on aqua a lot so this is going to be one coat inside we'll do another coat i'm glazing my dip chiller to match with the set to match each other because it'd be really disappointing to have i mean i guess you could make them not match but it's a set we want them to go together right and these actually do not fire together i'm always saying fire your your lidded pieces together not these these guys fire separately two coats inside of that smoky merlot i hope i'm staying on camera enough i'm sorry everybody so this is where your ice goes right and then you put your dip in here for parties and then you nest it down in and the ice keeps the dip cold so that you don't have to worry about giving your party guests food poisoning because nobody wants that and then they'll never come back to your party maybe because they're dead or they just you made them sick right so neither of those are a good thing so this will nest down in there when i make these there's a little wiggle room so that we don't have to worry about the glaze having any problems as far as causing thickness that would get in the way so we need the green and i believe a oolong gloss we'll go with the oolong gloss i'm done with the deep sea so i'm going to grab that brush and just swish it out here just checking on my pieces seeing how they're drying crane album my glaze combos you could look up that is a very big to-do list of mine i was working on that [Music] and i did have a small gallery section up i'm gonna get back to that i think i'm gonna have time during my recovery where i can work on things like that for you all so that you can have a really nice gallery to refer to all of the glaze combos i have done so you can see them so we're going to put the green on did i wax the bottom of this i did not this is an unwaxed pot it doesn't really make a difference it won't make a difference i'll wipe the bottom if i had some spare carpet i would use that in a in a little baking tray and wipe it off on that but i don't i don't have that i'm going up a little bit i want to have some overlap and i know green and purple but green and purple is awesome let's get this too just ordered the sample set of the coyote chinos nice yeah this is the oolong gloss shino and it's a really pretty shiny green that breaks brown on texture so if you're making textured planters this is a really good color for that so that was now it's two coats we've got two coats of that green on drying all right so that's gonna dry a bit let's see if we can get back to our ancient copper this will be coat three and then we'll set it aside and we'll come back for coat four let's grab our plate look at all we're doing okay so we're just gonna do seaweed on the rim of this now i have a little trick we're going to do in a sec so this is two coats of seaweed brushed on you know nicely nicely brushed on then you want to take and you want to just help encourage it along so i'm dragging the brush on the side on its side against the edge in a few places kind of dabbing it on a little thicker and what i'm doing is i'm going to cause like some little areas where the glaze is thick and it will run and melt during the firing like here we'll get a nice drippy bit and you can do the same thing with the flux not all glazes oh that's going to be a good drip that right there let me smooth this out down there that's a nice strip let's put one across from it so you just dab a bit a bit more glaze than you normally would and you you encourage it you give a little little little you can do it you can do it little glaze drip you can go down the pot some here that's how we get drippy bits you can do this with the flux you could do this with the oatmeal the snow lots of lots of things that you could do this with we'll put a little there that one's really going to run put a little more here go be free flow flow down the pot okay so that one this is done this is really done i'm just looking at the balance of all these drips i just did a massive one hold on back off so if you go too heavy there we go that's perfect all right you're good just let it be let it do its thing and we'll check that later now back to our matcha matcha matcha no oolong you're on vacation right now in the keys and missing a lot of clay share oh but you know what the great thing about clay share con is everything here has been recorded it'll all be available for watching after so if you can't watch live with us you can access these videos always it's all free clay share con is all free and anybody can watch anytime they want you can actually go watch last year's clay share con all right so that's the end of what i'm going to put on for the oolong gloss i think it's just about time to check our ancient copper put the oolong gloss away ancient copper we're going to do our fourth coat of that right here okay done with ancient copper so let's clean off our brush clean as you go you want that color i know it's really pretty um how does the c what does see we do it cone with a 10 minute hold right and so i do a 10 minute hold on mine and do you have to keep it on the inside no here is seaweed on a 10-minute hold on the outside you see it i didn't only did one layer of seaweed though on the inside you'd be fine on a cup if you went higher just remember this is really melty this is a super melty glaze see how much it melted here i just i just love what's happening right in there so nice so good so good okay so we're done with ancient copper and now we're going back to smoky merlot and then what did we decide we're doing on our we're doing flux on our transition band right let's grab this which one's drier i think the little one's a little drier probably going to do another coat inside this bowl of the smoky merlot there we go smokey merlot going on and overlapping the green the oolong gloss so we'll have a green to purple awesomeness and then while i'm at it i'm just going to do a third coat of smoky merlot on the inside to get that really really purpley color and i have to give a shout out jennifer alara um i believe is the one who suggested this comment combo for me so thank you jennifer that is great combo and i love it obviously because we're using it here let's put the smoky merlot i'm just going to put it on the inside first you don't have to do three coats in the dip chiller part the ice chiller part but um see it's a dip chiller dip is the little bowl chiller is the big part and you don't have to do the three coats but if you ever use them separate it's nice to have that and this is the part most people people are going to see anyway they're not going to see the little guy if it's inside so let's do an overlap like that half inch a little about a half inch band of overlap okay good so that would be a two and a half coats is our ancient copper ready for the flux oh my gosh it is let me reach over and grab the flux i keep my flux always at hand it lives on the shelf it's just right there because i use it so much yeah these brushes make all the difference the mako if anybody would and i didn't answer you ask these are mako fan brushes they're nice big soft floofy brushes that hold a lot of glaze so seaweed is melty yes it is seaweed is melty it is in a good way though all right we're going to flux we're going to flux this i'm going to do just a band right here a little bit up on the ancient copper might go up a little higher on the ancient copper so i can pull more down what will happen is it'll it'll pull it down into the blue and they'll run a bit it will obscure some of my carving i'm not worried about that and i do believe one is all i'm gonna do one band look at that so there's that we'll see how that turns out when that's all said and done now let's check in over here on our smoky merlot i think we need another coat of smoky merlot on this and then we'll put another coat on the chiller and then i think we're going to be ready to move on to the transition color so we i think we have to decide still though did i make up my mind yet what glazes work well with under glaze in texture so all of the celadon glazes that amaco makes works fabulously for texture like works great for texture and they work good with under glaze because they are zinc free so you can use them other ones that work great with texture my oribe is fabulous in texture my cobblestone which is a beautiful gray but it's an opaque gray looks great in texture and so does my chun blue those are my glazes that look great but amaco has got a ton of celadons a ton of them so many to choose from so with the jennifer combo was there seaweed along the join i didn't have c i didn't i don't think so i thought i used textured tourmaline on this although it could be seaweed we should ask jennifer is she here so what am i using as a flux i'm actually using mako light flux mako makes a product called flux which is basically a glaze itself and what it does it just melts like crazy it makes everything super melty runny so i know it's not an amaco product but it's really nice and you know if you want melty stuff it's the way to go to get the melt what colors are on the fired piece with the purple and turquoise well that's the ones we're talking about right here this is smoky merlot with the green the oolong gloss on the bottom that's what we're doing on the big ones oolong gloss on the bottom smoky merlot on the top and then a band of i thought i used tourmaline i thought i used tourmaline that was what was in my head and that's what i was going to go with you all correct me though i'm grabbing torments i ran out of textured turquoise so soothing to watch the process it is it really is so i don't know if i use this or not is the chiller part big enough to chill a bottle of wine if it was the minis you get on an airplane yes was it lustrous jade see what this is this is like a pop quiz what glaze did i use to do the band so a good dipping clear would be yes i have a great recipe my clear 2167 is zinc free clear it's fabulous you can get that recipe on clayshareresources.com just go to resources recipes and then you'll see all the glazes so that is my clear it's a beautiful clear go thin with it because you don't need to go pick with a clear but it does fabulously on everything transfers under glazes you name it also it's good for adding some pigments or oxides too to color it lustrous jade is what we're getting seaweed is what we're getting uh lustrous jade is the okay i'll go with lustrous jade all right did i grab lustrous jade i didn't um i need someone hey grab me some lustrous jade i'm gonna have him you put me on the front yeah all right so kevin's gonna grab me lustrous jade that is the that is the consensus of what i used for a beautiful glaze i it's i'm not sure what the bottle looks like anymore you know sometimes you get to know what glaze looks like when you see the bottle you find my lustrous jade lustrous jade right here so we're gonna put this on the seam hey from louisiana tuning in hi hi my clear is the best it's stable enough to add colorants it sure is absolutely yeah no it's great with colorants it takes colorants very well i have a whole line of glazes that i haven't put out to the public that use colorants james says lustrous jade all right i'm so glad you guys are paying attention because i don't even remember what i did how sad is that all right we're going with lustrous jade for the win and we're going to put that in here where they come together right below that purpley yumminess it's going to be super fabulous and when i put it on i'm going a little wibbly wobbly because i don't want a static line that's boring yeah go ahead uh sharon sports wants to know if you've tried weeping plum over marigold i have you yes ages ago um the weeping plum and the marigold it turns it more of like poppy the color um do i have the little puppy up here anymore that's tangelo i here it is if you put weeping plum it goes a little deeper than this this is the poppy from amico that you can get pre-mixed but yeah it does it turns the yellow into um but it's deeper so it's not the same that's the cool thing about the amico celedons is you can mix them with each other or layer them over each other i was going to do some solid on plates with texture for this because i have a whole bunch of plates that need glazing and i you know have a lot of texture on them that's one coat we're going to do two of these bands i do too i know it's a lot of run so it makes you think seaweed me too but i'm i'm gonna go with the well well jennifer told me so we'll go with that but i think you could do seaweed and you would get some cool effects too though all right so i put a second band on as well and just where they come together you know it makes some pretty yummy stuff all right that one's done let me finish this one although i could be going back in and adding the third layer sometimes you get little crumbs and stuff in your glaze just pick it off my clear is good over under glazed carvings yes so and paintings i do it on the mashima if you've ever seen any of my carved work all of my carved work uses my clear so if you look at anything i've ever done and has a clear glaze on it's my clear and i do a lot of carving with a lot of under glazed painting that has you know very fine detail that i don't want to lose and i use my clear on it yeah it's a great one and that recipe is free just go grab it and make it go make it yourself and you have it and you'll have the best clear on the planet i have to tell you i didn't invent that clear val cushing who sadly is no longer with us he passed on it's been a while now but he came up with that clear glaze ages ago so it has been around the block a time or two but that makes it a good glaze all right so here was our glazes today we did the deep sea with seaweed so this is like an oceany combo we did the smoky merlot with the oolong gloss and the lustrous jade and then the one that i have no idea what's going to happen is the deep sea on the bottom ancient copper on the top and yummy flux on the inside so we're gonna have to just on the middle like a belt like a little tummy belt so we'll have to see what that does because i have no idea all right so i will be back in a bit we will be doing hand building with garrity tools and this is fun because this is an unscripted one this is one where they sent me this new product i've never used before it just came in the mail actually yesterday i believe so i'm gonna be rolling out clay and we're gonna puzzle our way through it and have a really fun time with the garrity tools and hand building so thanks everybody and i will catch you in 15 minutes

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Published: Sat Feb 27 2021