Video: Adding Pottery Glaze Colorant

Glazing is the final artistic step in clay pottery. Learn some tips on how to from a pottery expert on how to correctly add colorant to pottery glaze in this free video clip.

Video Transcript

So now I've measured out all five of the ingredients that go into this glaze and scratched them off my list, and that is the five base ingredients for this glaze. Now the colorant I'm going to use to test today is called chrome oxide. I'm trying to come up with a green glaze, and chrome is a very good way of getting green. Now, with colorants, this chrome is only two percent of the glaze, so I'm only getting twenty grams of this chrome. So, I've set my scale to eighty-two point five, because remember my bucket was sixty-two point five, and I'm just going to get a little spoonful and just kind of gently shake it in there because it's not going to take a lot to get to twenty grams. And now, with the colorants especially, you want to be very precise. Because it's such a small percentage, that just a minor difference can make a big difference in the outcome of the glaze itself. So now it's at the center line, and you want to make sure that you get all of that, and don't spill any, and don't get it anywhere else because like I said, every little bit matters when it comes to that. So now I'll show you how to mix this up and use it for testing.

Adding Pottery Glaze Colorant

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