What Are the Stages of Pottery Glazing?

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Jen from Clay Cafe and I'll be showing you how to take your ceramic piece from start to finish. In this clip I'd like to actually show you what a piece looks like when it goes through the different stages. When people first come into this studio and they're starting to work on their piece. A lot of people wonder why their piece looks so different before it's fired than after it's fired. So what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to show you each stage and what it looks like in each different part. When you first pick your piece it's going to look very plain, very bland but that's your canvas to work on. So it can be something as simple as this very simple design that's drawn on your piece and this is your very first stage in getting ready for paint. The 2nd stage your piece will look like is this guy here. so this has already been painted. It actually has 3 good coats of black paint on it and the little designs have been painted. And the white in the background actually is just the natural color of the bisque. At this stage it hasn't been clear glazed which normally happens to all of the pieces to help create all that additional shine. So this guy is actually ready to be clear glazed. Which I'll show you in one of our next clips. And ready to be fired. The 3rd step is actually the finished product. So when your piece has been glazed and finished it'll look something like this. So this is the previous design that was done on the other two tiles and this is just the finished product. So note the difference of the color. The black is very, very intense. The white pops out much more and even the white in the star looks really, really vibrant."