Summary: A dripping glaze design technique for clay pottery is a great way to get beautiful and dramatic effects on your pottery. Learn tips on how this is done from a clay expert in this free video clip.
Emily Owen was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Owen earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a bachelor's of Science from the University of Texas in Austin with a total of 180 hours...read more
"Another good way to achieve a dripping like effect with glaze is to put it in a ketchup or mustard bottle. I've got some that's already prepared. Shake it up, make sure it's mixed really well. This is exactly the same stuff that comes out of the buckets. I've just made sure to mix some up and put it in a bottle. This is one that I frequently use to drip with. I just squeezed out a little bit to make sure I didn't have a clog in the tip of my bottle. Now I've got on the same banding wheel that I was using when I was waxing. And I like to have a drip that kind of varies all the way around. So I'm going to just gently squeeze over and over as I spin this banding wheel. Now I'm just, I'm making little pumps. You're going to see it come around in a second, making little pumps with my hand so that I'm getting a really varied drip line. And I actually like to intensify that drip, so what I do is I take the whole pot and I hit it just a little bit. Some of it will drip off, but it'll elongate those drips and make them just a little bit more dramatic in the end."