Mayco Kiln Opening

hey hey everybody kill opening two day right now we're gonna open the kiln so this has been a lot of glaze combos this has taken me a couple weeks to get everything together to really show off all these fabulous mako glaze combos i have in the kiln right now i've got some other glazes in here too and a few other things as always but mostly i've been working with the mako glazes i've got a bunch of new glazes to try out so you can see them on the shelf right back there on that shelf right there and we did do two live broadcasts this week glazing with mako glazes so if you want to check those out go do that but do it after you watch this because this is live right now of course if you're watching this on replay hit the pause button go find the glazing video first then come back to this because you'll see what happens that's like you don't watch the end of the movie first right so switch and do that but right now if you're watching live just stay here that's it all right so a bunch of mako combos in here um i don't know what else i got in here maybe some little surprises and stuff we're gonna have to just wait and see i've got my trusty glaze test notebook composition notebook no less and i've got some combos to try sheet this is one i was using you know before i get ready to do a big bunch of glazing i will do some research i will check out all kinds of sources i will look at the manufacturer's site i'll look at any groups they have on social media whether it's on facebook or on instagram so i did that and i wrote down a bunch of combos i wanted to try and then as i was glazing you can see i was writing down in my notebook what i was gonna put it on and the combos that i chose so very exciting because this is the first big kiln opening i think in july we did do the baby kiln that's that kiln the little kiln right there we did that kiln but my big kiln we hadn't done in a month i think i think it was uh june since we did one of these but um thanks so a lot of people ask on the plates on the wall this is my this is my personal artwork it's jessica putnamphilips.com if you're interested in that i am clayshare.com that's my site that's my company where i teach online pottery classes but i'm also an artist and i make my own work and the plates you're seeing here are part of my own personal work i don't have any of those in this kiln although i have some coming up in this next week i'll be working through the process of firing them and everything so i'm glad you all are here you made it on time everybody's here i'm watching the comments come up it's super exciting oh drew drew's on are you still on vacay drew because i am i'm privileged that you decided to hang out with me on your vacation when you should just be having fun with your family right uh i gotta tell y'all something so this is just a little something before we go into the actual diving into the kiln which sometimes is literally me diving into the kiln when we get to the bottom because it's that big i always check my analytics as you know someone who runs a business or uses social media to promote their business and as a company clay share our facebook page gets about 16 to 20 million views a month that's a lot 16 to 20 million views a month is what we get that's what my posts generate and that's not paid advertising that's just what people see i got up this morning and the last 28 days clay share has uh had 34 million post views yeah 34 million in 28 days i kind of almost fell over couldn't believe it crazy stuff crazy things going on but anyhow let's open up the kiln and you might notice my clay shark on t-shirt we did one in march we're gonna do another one in november and i'll give you more details as we go forward also we're doing a big mako glaze giveaway that's what prompted all these glazes so if you haven't signed up for our emails yet do that so you can be entered premium member clayshare.com you already entered all right everybody's here you guys are ready i'm ready let's unlock the kiln ready so exciting i always love this part okay hold your breath no not really it's going to be fine i mean what's the worst that could happen right top layer looks cool looks good so i think we're going to roll to the overhead camera so those of you who are watching um everywhere except instagram can see look at this all right let's start with the cone pack right here so i always fire at least two compacts in my kiln one on the top shelf one on the bottom just so i know if i'm hitting my target temperature now this was a cone five kiln and i had a four five six and if we look five is bent but it didn't quite get as hot as it usually does that's very interesting so my kiln ran a little cooler than normal and that actually was something i knew before i opened it because i followed along as the kiln was firing and i noticed it didn't get as hot by about 15 degrees on my app so that's that's something that means i might have to make some adjustments in my firing to a little longer hold at the end or maybe raise the temperature of the actual kiln but we'll talk about that more as we go through overall still an acceptable cone five completely acceptable i'm gonna roll to overhead small you do it you do what you want to do baby all right first first piece out is this plate this is a square plate i made with jr pottery forms and the pattern is from a stencil that i designed myself and then cut out with my silhouette cameo die cutter so i cut that out of a piece of tyvek paper made my own stencil laid it on the plate put under glaze on top and then peeled the stencil away cutie this is good and the glaze is just my clear 2167 uh and 2167 is cone five in case you wonder what 2067 means cone five turned out really good i know 34 million in just 20 and that's just the last 28 days before that was 28 million for the month of june so pretty good not too shabby all right uh i did a little something because i wanted to show everybody a thing chun same glaze on two pieces but why do they look different so i mixed my bucket of chun up and then i dipped immediately and i got this this i mixed it up let it set for a bit mixed it up again like five minutes later and got this so why is this different what happens is the first time you mix up a glaze when it's a dip and pour glaze sometimes it hasn't mixed all the way hasn't mixed quite thoroughly so what i like to do is i like to mix everything up first let it set for about five more minutes and then mix it up again and that way i know all the particles are fully suspended they've been moved around in there and it's good to go so that's my chun blue in a second mix and here it is look how uneven that is and that's because all the particles weren't suspended evenly so just a little a little trick for those of you when you're mixing up dip and pour glazes if you haven't used one in a while you mix it up the first time don't use it yet let it set a minute two minutes whatever mix it up again and then dip in it that way you know you're gonna get really good coverage so that's what we have here all right now i'm getting out the notebook because we're getting in it we're getting in it and i got the glasses because we're getting in it so we have got some mako glaze combos and i want to make sure that i know exactly what they are so when i tell you what they are i tell you the right information right so jessica is famous only in pottery world though it's it's i saw a separate little sort of bubble of famous right okay so we have this one right here this cup now these are mako glaze combos right here this was mako fool's gold that's the first layer i did two coats of that on the entire piece and on the inside and then on top i put muddy waters and what's really crazy is muddy waters often goes blue but it's not here it's not going blue at all it's doing this yummy oatmeally caramely goodness and the fool's gold has a little bit of sparkle in it that's from some mica that's added to the glaze by the manufacturer which you could do yourself if you wanted to test some of that out and i would say mako's fool's gold is similar to amiko's cosmic tea dust so they're very similar glazes so if you have questions while you're here you know ask i'll try to get to them trying to catch up so with everything so if you're asking and i missed you i missed your comments just keep asking and we'll get there so this one i think this was the first piece i glazed during our live broadcast on wednesday was this one right here turned out super spectacular and then this was one of the this was one of the last pieces i did this was cup 10. this actually was the last cup i glazed so that was the first one this is the last one this is i don't know if the lights can really really show how amazing this is this is two coats of mako's pink opal and then two coats of galaxy on top look at how the galaxy which is usually a gray-based glaze with blue and tan crystal blooms it has more of a purpley tone to it and then inside is just the pink opal just that pretty pink what do you think about this i love this this this is a nice surprise i really like this looks like a leopard or the other one did yeah that one with the fool's gold and the muddy waters these are all made with laguna b mix five so if you're wondering what clay this is this is b mix with no grog and here it is on the cup with fool's gold and muddy waters and here it is with the pink opal so good so good i love it happy with those now let's keep going so this is one i did everybody wanted a yellow combo and i wanted a yellow combo too so we did this is cup number six there's the bottom again it's the bee mix this is frosted lemon two coats and then muddy waters on top and when you put the muddy waters on top of the frosted lemon i thought it would be a brighter blue but it went more of a slate blue with some greens in it but you're still getting see the blues coming out you're getting streaking of blue it's a little subtle look at those yummy drips got to be careful that you don't go too close to the bottom that's why i left this much with just the lemon but look at that and then inside frosted lemon with a tiny bit of muddy waters on that as well and i do have to say i did put one coat just on the rim of mako's light flux just one coat that's it and the light flux you can see it really helped it to melt and run down quite a bit actually so i sometimes don't use the light flux but i tell you when i do i get such good results so this is a sweet little cup right there so the glaze is only for that clay not at all nope that's just the clay i'm using in my studio right now makos glazes these are their stoneware liner glazes now you can use them on any cone five cone six clay you can even use these to cone ten so it's really the temperature that the clay is rated to be fired to that determines what you use for glaze and for the clay and how they work together so makos i could use this on a cone 10 clay you'd get a different result yes but you could still use it on it you could use it on a brown clay you could use it on a tan a speckle it just depends what you like i buy my clay usually a thousand pounds at a time so i don't usually have uh you know like 10 different clays in the studio my main go-to is the b-mix right now although i always have little tiny bags of others to test out because i'm always testing and teaching and sharing different glaze and clay combos with you all so let's keep going some of these you didn't see me glaze because i did these on my own friday so this little bowl right here this was small bowl right here this is blue opal two coats inside and out on the entire piece then on top it says i put galaxy on top that's what it says i did yeah galaxy so that's galaxy on top of blue opal let's go back to this galaxy on top of pink opal so look how that galaxy has changed when you put the galaxy on top of the blue opal that gray base goes a deep midnight blue look how gorgeous that is and you're getting little blooms that are kind of a caramelly yellow and tan and some periwinkle colors when you put the galaxy on top of pink opal you're getting more purple tones coming out blues some light kind of grays in there as well so same glaze on top different glaze on bottom and yummy on the inside as well so that's like a good whoo-hoo that's a good combo i'm happy with that i'm i'm loving galaxy i hadn't used it much at all actually so this is really fun for me to try these out this little guy little dip bowl coral sands two coats inside and out and then i put sea salt on top so that you can see the coral color coming through on the inside because i only put one coat of the sea salt on the inside on the outside i put two coats of the sea salt over the coral sands and it definitely is an opaque glaze but i like it just the same and then there's the bottom so you can see it's still that light clay i see there's a question do i single fire or do i bisk fire then glaze fire and i did see that kevin answered that but i wanted to go ahead and let you all know that i always bisk fire and then glaze fire did i use flux on top of either one of those well let's check the notebook for that right so that was cup 10 no no flux this one did not have flux on it this cup the galaxy bowl let's check the bowl nope no flux on that bowl no and let me show you a way you can really tell let me grab the muddy waters one so this one i used flux on do you see how we have these teeny tiny like like running marks where it's like almost like you know water running down do you see how we don't have those at all how everything's really kind of staying we're not getting so much streaking on this and that's one way you can tell you get this def this really defined streaking versus the more stable crystalline bloom staying put now it did run and flux on its own but i didn't add any additional flux on this bowl we do have pieces with flux coming up and i think i have a bowl more fluxy pieces later all right um okay stepping away from mako this was a piece i carved in a live broadcast actually last month we did this and i just hadn't done a glaze fire until now so this was using speedball under glaze that i painted on first when it was leather hard and then i carved through it and that's what you're seeing here it's just that is there a comparable amico for the galaxy so the mako glazes are crystalline glazes they have these little like crystal inclusions that cause them to bloom like that amaco doesn't really have any of those only mako that i know of is doing it right now in pre-made glazes that you can buy commercially so if you want that exact look now mako um has quite a few of those crystal glazes and they have all different like tones and color ranges the let me grab this back out with the galaxy but amico does have a smoke solid on which will give you a brown and they have a sky sell it on which will give you a blue and they do have a cherry blossom celadon which will give you your pink it it won't have the blooming effect like this but you could use similar colors it just wouldn't be exactly the same yeah that's that right there is very much because of the crystals in it okay so here's a mug i did this was the last was this the last mug i glazed let's check mug yes this was this was actually the last piece i glazed on for on thursday did glazing thursday so this is norse blue two coats indigo rain two coats and this does have light flux on the rim i did light flux in a band about here all the way around and you actually can kind of see see how we have lots of melties going on lots of melty so this one came out really yummy i wish i had put the indigo rain on the whole piece and covered up the norse blue all the way but i don't know that's not bad oh the handle is nice i always love it when we have a nice melt and flux down the handle so does amaco and mako glazes play nice together they do i've used many together this this kiln opening is mostly mako because they are sponsoring our giveaway this month but um i do make in my own work when i have time i'll mix the two together but and with everything do a test and see how it works if you have some glazes you want to try out do a little small test just looking oh he wants to see the mug because he can't see through the monitor there that's how you see the mug that's nice turned out pretty it's kind of wintery and it's july so maybe we need something to cool them off deb i've never used the duncan crystals i know that you can add them to glazes i haven't tried those yet i put it on my list of things to do because it's definitely something that's intriguing right try those out all right now where are we at are we ready for our next shelf yeah i'll repeat the glazes on the mug so this one right here is norse blue two coats the entire mug then indigo rain um about three quarters of the way down the mug two coats of that and then just a one band on the very top of mako's light flux and these are all mako glazes and the inside is just two coats of the norse blue so this is the norse blue from mako and i was using the blue opal some of you might want to see the difference between the two so this bottom glaze right here is the blue opal the bottom glaze here is the norse blue the norse blue has a little more green to it a little grayer the blue opal is a little lighter both of them are slightly translucent so i think they could do well on texture if you're if you're using textured pieces and you want to show that texture off i think they could work well for that so the flux just creates movement in the glaze um so what it does is it creates movement it helps it to melt to flux more and it will pull the colors together so it doesn't really change the color although the flux is lighter so it can make the glaze a little lighter than it was to begin with that glaze there um was already a very light colored glaze right here so it didn't really change the color because the glaze already has a white base if it was a deep dark base then it could change it a little bit make it more of a gray or maybe a lavender so it could lighten the tone and mako also makes a product that's a dark flux and that can change it too so it's more of a dark gray or charcoal color so there's two products it just depends if you're doing a really dark piece maybe you don't want light flux maybe you want dark flux because you want to keep that dark tone going throughout the piece so do i work mostly with just commercial glazes or do you mix any of my own aaron that's a very good question so uh um you know i think you're new to here welcome thanks for hanging out with me i've been making pottery for 20 years i started out you know learning how to make all my own glazes from scratch i actually have my own line of glazes that i've created that i invented that are all ones i mixed myself from trial and error over many many years decades even of making my own glazes but when i went back to graduate school uh nine years ago now i was working on pieces that didn't allow me to have time to formulate all my own glazes because i had deadlines and i had these large pieces and they had to be done so i started experimenting with commercial glazes because they had the colors and the effects i wanted and for me my time was limited so that was a really great opportunity for me to try out commercial glazes now i do a combination of dip and pour glazes some commercial some my own and commercial paint on or brush on glazes so it just depends i think both are great i don't think there's a right way to glaze i think it just depends what you're looking for and if you have a glaze that you love and it's giving you the results you want you use that if there's a glaze out there that someone else has already made and you want that effect for me i just buy that glaze instead of trying to replicate that at this point in my career i i want to just make pots so i do still make my own glazes and i will have two new ones coming out at clayscape's pottery this fall my my cranberry and my oribe which my orbe is one i've been using for almost 20 years it's an amazing glaze it's a cone 10 glaze i brought down to cone 6 so that everybody can use it in their electric kilns so it just depends it just depends so for me um i do a mix of both but i love glaze so i think all of it's good so we got one shelf empty finally we got there so i see mama of teen says norse blue two indigo ring two yes and light flux one so here's another one i did with the stencil and what's interesting about this is this piece was made because the first blue plate i showed i had a bunch of under glaze on that when i peeled it off so i just reversed that laid it on here pressed it in and then brushed a melon under glaze on top of it so i reused the under glaze from the first one and then added another color to it i really like the vintage effect that's going on here and that's just speedball under glaze with clear on top get a gas-fired looking electric count right and it depends what you want so you can get gas-fired effects in electric kilns there's a lot of things out there that can help you do that and you know one of the things that that i love about electric firing is it is so predictable so consistent when i fire my gas kiln yeah i have an idea of what's going to happen because i fired it so many times but things can still change and it can be a little unpredictable right so it's kind of some of the magic all right so we got some little tiles this is for a little tile tray class that i'm going to be filming i think i'm filming that this week as a matter of fact so we got these cute little tiles and there's a whole bunch of them in here scattered about so we'll get to trying to see if i spiders or little bits of sea glass yeah it actually is just a fan pattern that i that i drew and i missed comments so go back up so i can catch up with everybody all right you guys are commenting too fast kevin can't keep up with scrolling so i can't read okay you miss being able to go to the art museum and take classes ah where you had access to the kilns is there a kiln i'd recommend for a home studio a small scene not producing first sale yeah you know one of the first things you should buy if you want to start making pottery at home and you don't have access to a clay studio or a school is a kiln and you can often find them second hand but if you love pottery and you know it's something you're going to continue for years and years i always think it's worth making the investment in yourself and buying a kiln now i have l l kilns here and i love l l my first kiln was in l l i've used other kilns too in the past but my go-to is an l l and i'll tell you if you want to know more about what is the right kiln for you for your budget what you're doing in pottery and the the amount of pots you're making so you get the right size talk to drew seymour at clayscapespottery.com that's andrew clayscapespottery.com you can email him and he'll help you out and even if you don't buy a kiln from drew he will help you find the right kiln so he is like a walking encyclopedia of kiln information so you just reach out to him and he will help you out he's awesome and he's supposed to be on vacation today but i saw him watching so he's not on vacation oh that piece oh and it all right so i don't know we switched to the overhead so everybody can see that piece i'm pointing at so i did something i don't usually do mako has some crazy glazes they have their um like magma glazes i think it's called and i did a vase they're mud crack glazes they have like a lava glaze and a mud crack i did a mud crack glaze and i'll tell you have to watch out with mud crack glazes because they tend to spit they can shoot bits of the glaze off during firing and sometimes they can stick on other pieces or your kiln shelf which is what happened right here got a little bit glaze on my kiln shelf so i'll be grinding that later but this was fun now the black mud crack this is not a functional glaze this is not a food safe glaze or i should say food wear glaze you don't put this on a piece that you're going to eat off of but you can put it on the outside of a mug this here's a vase glossy red inside two coats of glossy red on the outside and then two coats of the mud crack two coats of mud crack and look what it does it pulls apart like mud that has cracked and it's just a really fun glaze if you do sculptural things or you can put it on the outside of a mug right so this actually could be food safe as it is right now because well it's a vase so i'm not going to drink out of it but if it was a mug imagine i could drink out of it because none of the black mud crack is on the inside it's only on the outside so this this is super fun right here i'll give you a little more close-ups of this this is not my usual um kind of style you all know me i don't really go for black and red too much but this is really fun and you could put any color under the black mud crack and they also make a white mud crack so you could do like a pretty glossy bright blue and then white on top that would be cool maybe you should do a quick video on what kiln to buy that's what drew just said drew do a quick video on what kiln to buy and i saw someone just ask what kiln i have this is an l l e 23 t t meaning taller kiln there's an e 23 s which is shorter and they also make now medium-sized ones that's kind of in the middle so there's there's a lot of kiln options out there so this is fun this is really fun and this came in the mako stoneware sample kit i bought last year i think or the year before i can't remember but i never tried it it just sat in the studio and i decided thursday i'm gonna give it a go so it's fun it's fun and if you like that look you can have a blast with that or if you do sculptural pieces that that would be amazing all right let's step sideways for a second onto another plate that i did using stencils so this is with laguna b mix my own stencil design and then i applied each little color by hand with a small brush that took me about an hour and 15 minutes to apply under glaze yeah hour and 15 minutes to do the under glaze on this tiny thing made me a little crazy will i do it again probably probably because you know how that is but look how sweet that is cute and then there's the back just clear glaze on my signature right so let's see your daughter has chosen mako jungle gems peacock eyes for dinnerware is this food safe so you can go to makocors.com and look that up and check i don't know all of them off the top of my head that are food safe because mako has hundreds of glazes um i do know their stoneware line is food safe they really all their new ones are food safe um but if you look on their website yeah they will have all the information for you hon it'll be right there treva it'll be right there for you so let's see so are these like crawl glazes joanie wants to ask from coyote they it is a crawl so it's actually the mud crack glazes it's actually what would be considered a glaze defect except we're doing it intentionally do you see how it's pulling away from the surface and they're separating that's considered crawling but for something sculptural this glaze we're using intentionally like that so it's it's pretty cool and it's fun when you can do that and uh you know just because a glaze does something like crawl doesn't mean it doesn't have an application somewhere it has a use just have to figure out where it is i'm gonna set the plate back here cause we're running out of space on my table up front so i've got a question for you all right i have an answer so the jungle gyms are low fire the jungle gems are low fire so would it be a good idea to use those on dinnerware uh yes so here's the thing mako has the line that i'm using which is their stoneware glazes which can go to cone 10. they also have their jungle gem line of glazes which are low fire but they can go to cone 5 6 as well so you can push them hotter what it means is they're going to flux and melt more and run more so you have to test them carefully to make sure they don't run and stick on your shelves but the jungle gem glazes yeah you can put them they are they can be food safe yes but you need to check and you need to test because they're going to run like crazy which can be magnificent but you need to prepare for it so it doesn't stick to your shelf right you love clayscapes they're very helpful they are they're very helpful they're awesome all right now we've got oh yeah so this is a georgie's ceramic that's the company glaze this is their neon orange glaze i love this glaze and uh this was in my sponge slash soap holder that drains see how we have this little point here this little spout so that your sponge or soap sits here and you put this at the edge of your sink it drains right in and that's that's a class i did a couple months ago for clay share very fun very very easy if you're just starting out in pottery you want to try a project this is a great place to start right here this is a great place to dip your toes in the in the mud because it's pottery i know i'm too funny all right oh this is mine all right so here's the thing i was glazing a bunch of dip chillers so here's the chiller part and here's the the dip holder part it's a two-piece set this also is a is a wheel throwing class on clay share um and so i was glazing a bunch of them and i wanted a new one for me to use this summer and i wanted the idea that a dip chiller should be frosty right because it's keeping your dips cool and so i glazed both pieces fired them separately so they can be used separately and look really cute by themselves or put your ice in here fill this with your favorite dip and then you set it out and your dips stay nice and cool in the summer heat right fabulous the glazes on here are mako lavender mist two coats inside and out blue hydrangea and i glaze the blue hydrangea to here and then to here and then the white is the light flux so we were asking someone was asking about that light flux being a different color and look how it changed the color because it made it much more white where the blue hydrangea is a deeper darker color so look how nice this is right here love this is one of my go-to combos lavender mist blue hydrangea light flux i put it on mugs i put it on plates i put it on pierced bowls big bowls i love it i love it it's look at the inside of that bowl there's there's nothing that makes me mad about that i love all of it it's just yummy and these are all food safe so those of you worrying about can you eat out of it go for it eat out of it like if you are a big person if you have big hands i don't have big hands but this would be amazing cup right you have a drink you can have a serious drink in this i don't i don't know what you're going to do with this if you're drinking out of this you got to put something in here i don't know peanuts okay you have your drink in here and a bowl of nuts right there so you have a party right there all by yourself well hopefully you have some friends hang out hang out here with me and we'll be friends this i'm not sure how i feel about this this was was this piece number one when was this this was that blue dark okay this was the robin's egg and dark green gloss combo so my kiln got to cone five just to cone five i think if this was cone six it would have been better i think this would have melted more it's a little matte for me and it doesn't look like it melted as much so two coats of robin's egg and two coats of the bright green gloss i definitely think this could be a refire to melt it a little more i don't not like it but i don't absolutely 100 love it like i'm not gonna throw it away but i won't it's probably one that i won't be like oh that's mine right but it's not bad it's not bad at all oh now see here's the thing and then you get this and i'm like oh that's mine right like that cup i'm keeping that so this one is winter wood with two coats of celadon bloom on top wow i'm double checking to make sure i thought i did two winter woods yes so celadon bloom on top of winter wood so here's a little thing for you if you're going to use winter wood and you're wondering about it everything looks good on winter wood just keep that in mind it's amazing right isn't that gorgeous so nice so that's good that's a good one so that's a keeper and we got oh what'd i tell you about that combo using lavender mist blue hydrangea and light flux i did a mug did a mug because i love the purple ease and look at all the yummy happening here on the handle lots of yummy melty going on right there lots of it so good happy with that you like the dark green cherry i think you know and i also think glazing has to be a personal preference too there are colors that i know i'm really drawn to that i love that other people might not like and then there are colors that other people will love and there's nothing wrong with them it's just not my thing right i mean it's just like foods focus right there look at how cute am i too close is that close enough and then i go closer so this turned out really well um so again lavender mist blue hydrangea light flocks just like that light flux puppy update oh puppy is doing good so we got a puppy last saturday she was eight weeks old then so that means today she's nine weeks old we started obedience training or puppy training she's learned to come to her name so we put her hand down we call her she comes to her our hand we've taught her sit and we've taught her stay when we're going in and out the doors so she will sit at the door she will stay at the door the person can go in the door turn and call her and she'll come to you so we've done that in the week is what we've done with a nine week old puppy well she was technically eight weeks old but i have trained all kinds of dogs and she's a german shepherd and she's brilliant she's so smart and quick to learn she's a dream to train i've trained terriers and i've trained hounds and golden retrievers and after training a hound dog almost any dog is brilliant right compared to them but german shepherds they're like the dream come true for training so good so good and she loves the play and she loves to romp and cuddle and all the good things puppies love to do she's we have her now crate trained so she does all night in her crate usually i take her out at midnight and get up at six to take her out because you don't want to really leave a puppy that young in a crate for more than four to six hours if you can help it but she does so good and she lets us know when she needs to go out for breaks so it's awesome she's like she makes owning a dog like the best thing ever i love her so much she's so good her name so the so no actually riley is my daughter's name the dog's name's reina so riley is my daughter and reyna is riley's dog because we got the puppy for riley she's um you know she's a german shepherd and we're going to be training her through her puppies training and obedience training and then when she gets older she's going to be trained to be a service dog so right now we're just doing the basic training for her and then when she gets older she'll have more rigorous service dog training but that's still months down the line but right now it's all about being a family pet and a super cuddly puppy so she doesn't have to work too much quite yet ah oh that came out so good look at that one look at that one you gotta see that one light flux do i brush it or do i apply it with a squeeze ball i brush it on i brush i rarely use a bottle to apply my flux but i have seen some cool videos where people do like dots and stuff this is winter wood we were talking about everything looking good on winter wood winter wood with lavender mist two coats two coats of winter wood two coats of lavender mist and then yes i put light flux on the top and you can see how much it's run and fluxed and i believe let's check the winter wood with the light flu lavender mist times two halfway down and then just a little bit on the rim just a little bit on the rim of the flux that's it just right here one coat that's all that's all you needed it melted so well this is this is gorgeous oh so nice love it all right so that was good so many good things in here all right oh look at this combo i know what this is so this is robin's egg two coats shipwreck i'm pretty positive that shipwrecked because i hadn't tried that yet yep two coats of robin's egg on the whole cup shipwreck two coats coats to here and then light flux on the rim and i did one coat you can see about this far down and i need a second coat right on the tippy top look at that dark and stormy night going on on top of the robin's egg the robin's egg is a bit of a satin finish it's not as glossy so it's it's nice it feels good in the hand i see everybody commenting puppy breath i know there's nothing like puppy breath and she discovered barking and like growling at her little toy too cute so so cute so does winter wood have pieces in it lori it does yeah winter wood has i put them all back there winter wood has little inclusions in it like crystals but it's not a glossy it's more of a satin matte finish so it's not a high gloss but it does have those nice little specks in there that give it texture and look great with other glazes on top all right we're gonna put this one back here too because i have no room up front oh those are so good i will take stills of these for you all too ah i decided to do something kind of crazy i know i decided to do something a little crazy this is pink opal two coats inside and out and then i put shipwreck on top because i didn't know what it would do and i thought i want to see it what will it do two coats of shipwreck that's it no flux although i think a flux could have been really nice this is a ramen bowl this is a really nice ramen bowl right here and i love that so the pinks and the blues with some little brown specks that kind of tie it all together you love the shipwreck but not so great with the robin's egg i think i have something just with shipwreck in the kiln with light flux so it'll be interesting i think i think i'm not 100 sure um we'll we'll find out when we get there oh you all know my beach house mug the beach house mug we always talk about the mug that eventually i'll have a to buy a beach house to go with my mug here's my beach house ramen bowl this is such a simple combo but it is so gorgeous this is two coats of celadon bloom love that solid on bloom and then light flux two coats of light flux on the top went a little heavy here got a lot of drippies mmm looks good though and then on the inside yummy so beach house just need a beach house to go with the bowl and now i have a mug too so oh you had a belgian shepherd 14 years you had him oh lee i bet he was a love i know we haven't had a big dog in years our last big dog was a golden retriever and then we've had yorkies and i love my little yorkies i love them but they're only six pounds they're tiny little dogs and they are good for therapy dogs if you want something small for anxiety dogs but not so good as a service dog and my daughter required a dog that can do certain tasks for her that a terrier can't so a german shepherd perfect perfect for her perfect dog for that so what size do i make my ramen bowl depends on the person i'm making the ramen bowl for this is two and a quarter pounds of clay the other one was two and a half depends on this is for riley actually this is hers i'm not going to keep this and the other bowls for my eldest daughter leanne so i have two two girls and my eldest daughter likes ramen a little a little different way my youngest wanted a taller smaller bowl like this so i i can accommodate them i can i can make them the ramen bowls they want so that's that's where these came from but two and a quarter pounds for a ramen bowl you want your ramen bowl to be kind of substantial and you want a nice foot on your ramen bowl too all right oh this this this this blue splatter wear blue and white dip chiller blue splatter wear and then what's that on top well it's interesting because that is bloody waters and it went much more tanned than i expected but i am not unhappy with it i still think it's beautiful yeah oh yeah it's nice so it's another two-piece set the blue splatter wear by itself would have been crazy good with just a little bit of flux i think if i want to stick with the blue and white i have a few more dip chillers to glaze so maybe i'll go that way oh melissa honey i'm sorry i see you lost your corgi yesterday she was 15. i am so sorry i i i feel your pain dear i we lost one of our sweet babies back in april our little eevee and it always is heartbreaking no matter how long you have them it's never long enough so just know we're thinking about you and we're there for you hon yeah it's it's hard so hard when you lose them because you love them so much have i tried aurora green i do uh lori let me show you aurora green on top of green opal i have a cup right back here this was not in this kiln this was in oh i don't know march i think i fired this in march's kiln this is aurora green over green opal how about that yeah two coats of of green opal first and then two coats of aurora green on top this is actually a cup i'm always drinking out of in the studio i just always am dragging it back and forth between the house and the studio like the way it fits and i really like those colors it's really pretty so that's this is aurora green on top of green opal and then we've got another dip oh this one this one if you like blues and who doesn't like blues that do you guys want to guess what this is should i let you guess you love the blue splatter where i know oh so good i love it um so this dip killer is let's find it in my notes the second one blue opal two coats night moth night moth i love that night moth that night moth it's black by itself put it on top of blue opal and whoa look it look at that so good and that's just two coats of each two coats of blue opal first two coats of night moth ah put this together perfect perfect love it love it so this was a huge win this is one of my favorites of this firing so far what do you guys think about the night moth on the night moth on the blue opal blue opal is pretty sweet right the aurora green on raspberry mist i think it would did i did i do we've got a couple more layers so we're going to keep on going but this that so far is like that's my maybe favorite in this kiln so far i think so all right let's do the next layer down see what we got down there i know that was good that i didn't expect i hadn't tried that you know the night moth by itself is divine like you don't have to put anything else on night moth and i did do night moth on blue hydrangea and that was gorgeous but i didn't know that night moth would be so good on top of the blue opal i didn't know it'd be so blue really happy with it though so this is the bottom of the kiln we're at the bottom of the kiln oh what's this bright blue one ah do you like cobalt blue do you like just blue blue blue blue blue this is sapphire whoa and it really is there's no joke this is sapphire uh sapphire blue and two coats of blue splatter wear that blue wear it really absorbed it you see you're not seeing much of the blue splatter wear at all you get a little texture from it but not a lot so so nice though if you like cobalt blues this is nice this cup feels good too this is an old style of cup for me i used to make these when i was doing farmers markets and selling at craft fairs and art festivals these cups were my little like 20 cup and i would make like 50 of them for a show because they're the perfect size for just about everything and they fit everybody's hand so well it's just like the cup you reach for when you need a little drink of something juice iced tea water whatever that cup shape right there it's an oldie but goodie for me and i needed a bunch of cups for glaze testing oh that looks nice on me let me just show you the bottom see if that'll i always love it when it's a little thick before the foot looks good there happy happy happy two coats of the sapphire two coats of the blue splatter wear i would love to try that with some flux on top so do i sell my work i have sales usually i'll have online sales a few times a year when we are not in the middle of the current situation i have open studio events where people come to my studio here in vermont and they can tour the studio and buy pieces then currently i don't have a date set for a next online sale i was hoping to have one this month but i am just not able to get it together because i'm so busy um but you know we will see okay now sticking with the blues theme so blue splatter wear one coat you get more white two coats you get more blue so that's what we have here one coat on the entire piece second coat i only went to about here see the tonal change see that bottom right there that is where it's one coat this is two coats and then the tippy top is just light flux see what flux does see how that tippy top is just melty and that's all that's on here is the blue splatter wear and flux i kind of like it with just one coat that lighter what do you guys think i do have throwing a cup class yeah yep uh it's very similar to the shape it might be this shape because this is my go-to very very simple and do they sell very well they sell like crazy um yeah love them so good and they make great glaze tests right oh we only got a couple more things i'm a little sad all right now this is not a mako glaze this is amaco aqua celadon with art deco green on top this is one of my candlesticks from our last our hand building class on making candlesticks right we made these that was a fun class there were two pieces in one we did candlesticks and we did candle holders they're a little different all right little heart trinket box sweet little thing again these are amaco this is amaco no this is lavender mist on this no this is mako this is lavender mist which is a mako glaze and this is light flux on it so we got a little melty right there and had to pop the the lid off so you can see inside and you can see that put it back on cute little trinket heart trinket box fun little clasp all right only a couple more pieces we have a great big planter do you want to do the planner let's do the planner oh so big planter this was my coil planter class that's a hand building class and i modified it a little bit you know i made this one and i changed up the shape you can see i altered this is a hand built class not a wheel thrown so this was a a hand built piece just using coils although it kind of looks wheel thrown and then it has these cute little feet i put on it so this is blue opal i believe two coats and then robin's egg two coats that robin's egg looks better on top of blue opal yeah but i actually really would have rather put night moth on top of it and now that i saw it but it looks good right and the little cup someone was asking are they a pound yeah they're about a pound of clay a pound maybe a teeny tiny bit more sometimes maybe a teeny tiny bit less but right about a pound very simple so would you get the same results on the plates as you do on taller pieces no it would be different because cups and mugs are vertical so you get more dripping and running plates are flat so if you look in here you can kind of see we have vertical movement right and then at the bottom it's more static things tend to pool a little more when it's flat so it will be different it necessarily won't be bad it just won't be exactly the same so if you see right here do you see how the glaze has kind of see if i can show you without the glare there so you can see how we have the glaze here and it's just sitting in pools if you look here you can see how it ran a bit so that's that's the the main difference it's a little a little different way the glaze behaves because it doesn't have any place to drip down off of two more pieces in the kiln oh who likes yellow and blue me i like yellow and blue so this little bowl oh my gosh that's so good this is frosted lemon and on top of it you find my little bowl small bowl frosted lemon with huh robin's egg did i put anything else on top of it no just robin's egg on frosted lemon okay robin's egg looks great on frosted lemon yeah robin's egg looks amazing on frosted lemon if i didn't have it written down there i wouldn't believe that's what it is but it says it right there so that's what it is hey mary pat you just built a barn for your two horses two miniature donkeys dwarf goats 14 chickens my husband surprised you with a kiln to use for your glass obsession awesome and you're going to try clay now i love it glass and clay are like sisters they go together you're gonna love it you're absolutely gonna love it so this what you guys think of this combo i do have an enchanted forest i didn't do muddy did i do i don't think i got that for this kiln no we didn't get that one done we ran out of space i got one more cup to pull out though ran out of the yeah the muddy waters versus with the enchanted forest that i don't think that happened in this kiln because it's the last piece this cup right here is lavender mist first i'm pretty sure and indigo rain oh yes lavender mist indigo rain and light flux on the rim look at how much the light flux ran look at that oh wow yeah that ran but it it didn't run too far good right nice that's your frosted lemon and blue you wanted lisa who knew the robin's egg i'm surprised it's great i didn't expect it to be um i didn't expect it to be so pretty blue with the robin's egg was kind of eh on that other cup right but this one right here very nice very happy with that like really happy mmm yum all right i'm not reading anymore so i can take off my glasses this is life right when you try to read stuff so this right here turned out amazing i've got all my results written down in my notebook so what i do now is i will go through my pieces and i'll make notes next to what i glazed the combos like what i liked best sometimes i'll start a new page and i'll write a little paragraph about how the whole thing went and how i felt about the whole thing let's grab the cone pack out so we can take a look at that this is the bottom me get the top and here's the top so you can look at the two top was a little cooler bottom got a bit hotter first time my kiln has not fired completely even so i need to look at some technical things and figure out what is going on and and change some things around and that way i can get the kiln back to being even but it's normal for kilns to change over time and through use and become a little uneven and then you just make some adjustments whether that's a little longer hold right to help the temperature even out or maybe you go a little hotter a little cooler in the firing or if you're doing a cone offset maybe you adjust that so there's some things for me to address and change but overall they're really close like they're just a tiny bit apart so it's not a big deal when i was firing the kiln actually at the very end they were only about five degrees apart so the top to the bottom so i'm really happy so when i say light flux what is it light flux is a glaze from mako and if you want to know more about all the glazes i'm talking about if you want to know like how i applied these glazes go check out the free live video that's on clayshare.com it's also on the clayshare.com page and it's just glazing with mako and that's what we did wednesday for our live broadcast is we glazed a bunch of pots so you can learn about what light flux is because i share that in there so this does have light flux do you see how we have those melty runny bits no light flux on this pink one no light flux so i like to wrap it up with my favorite glaze combos and i've got a couple i do love this i love this right here this is gorgeous but i have to tell you i think my favorites is gonna be this i'm having a look yeah yeah oh it's tough yeah yeah i'm pulling these three these three got these three this blue opal with night moth right there this combo blue opal with night moth love that this right here winter wood with lavender mist so good and a tiny bit of flux on the rim lavender mist with hold on gotta check my things because i don't remember everything this is how this is why we make notes right this one was lavender mist with indigo rain and flux who knew who knew love both these little different fabulous right so there we have it the kiln opening some great results now remember we're giving away a bunch of mako glazes we're giving away eight packs four eight packs of glaze and to enter you just have to go to clayshare.com and sign up for our emails easy peasy like that if you're a premium member of clayshare.com you are already signed up you have to do anything it's just taken care of for you and we have a big promo we're doing with clayscapespottery.com where you can save 25 off mako glazes so even if you win those eight glazes some of these glazes are in that pack so if there's other glazes you want you might want to pick them up and save 25 off using the code explore 10 now that's 25 off mako's retail price so clay escapes for the month of july is doing 15 off glazes mako glazes i should be clear and then you can save an extra 10 off of that so that's what we got going down the blue opal in the night moth i wish i did a mug i do but now i have an awesome dip chiller although the one with lavender mist and blue hydrangea is so good so good they're all good alright so let's see any questions the big bowl in the bottom held more heat than the smaller pieces near the top lisa it could be i also didn't load the top as heavily as i normally do this was actually a little lighter kiln firing for me i spaced things out a little bit because it got to be very late thursday and i needed to just get it done you know how that is sometimes so i could have squeezed a few more pieces in and maybe another layer but it worked out and how full your kiln is definitely will affect how even your firing is and how fast it fires and how quickly it cools so those are things you always have to consider in the firing love the mako glaze combos betsy i do too i hope you all have an amazing weekend enjoy the rest of it you know it's a beautiful summer day here in vermont i'm going to take the rest of my afternoon off i think i'm going to go make some dip to put in my dip chiller i'm gonna get myself something cool to drink to drink in my little cup and i'm gonna go put my feet in a cool bucket of water i think and sit outside with my chickens all right everyone take care i will catch you wednesday for the giveaway of the mako glazes that'll be at 5 pm eastern time so be sure to be live so you can see it and of course if you can't catch the live you can always watch the replay and we will email the winners so if you win and you can't make the live don't worry about it you'll still get your prize alright everyone take care i'll catch you later you

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Published: Sat Jul 25 2020