Pottery Tips - Glazemaking Special
Let’s go through the recipe
So, you’ve never made a glaze before and you’re feeling a bit nervous…
Don’t be. Let’s do this together shall we?
My Introduction to the whole Glazemaking Thing 😁
The Recipe
Reading the Recipe
(Correction to the audio: I normally go for a x30 or max x50 not a x10, because of my bucket size)
Glazemaking Prep
You will need some equipment, I recommend watching the video below first, then McGyvering your own way of doing it. This is to make a dipping glaze, the brush on process is slightly different.
Minimum equipment required
Scales, 2 buckets, 2 sieves with decreasing hole sizes (don’t ask me what size, I always get confused 😳) and I use a basic dishwashing brush to swish the glaze through the sieves.
Making My New Floating Navy Glaze
I’ve only just developed this glaze, so if you like, you can help me test it. It’s such a glorious glaze.. (If you see the captions, enjoy 🤣🤣)
You will have to do your own tests…but this is what it looks like for me:
PSA - SCMC ALERT!
It took me a year to use up the SCMC I made in that video, the upside was that I could experiment with my raw ingredients and I ended up with 10 jars of gorgeous brush on glazes 😁
Making Brush On Glazes
Minimum equipment: hand blender & scales that can do grams
This is how I acquired my Caribbean Gold glaze
Some of my glaze colours
Bonus Extra - For ENFs
Behind the scenes of the podcast audio recording…