Video: Types of Enamel Pottery Glaze

Different types of pottery glaze are available and produce different looks including underglaze, pottery, burst and courtyard. Learn all this and more in this free online art lesson on video about painting pottery taught by potter Jennifer Gravel.

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 introduce you to what glazes actually out there that you can paint your piece with. First off the most common are under glazes that come in an absolute rainbow of colors. And generally area applied with a 3 coat rule. The 3 coats is basically just to ensure that you get a nice even coverage. And on tiles behind me you can see that we've broken it up in to a 1st, 2nd and 3rd coat. The first coat is generally a very light, very translucent coverage where you can see all of your brush strokes. The second coat will give you a little bit more coverage even though you'll still be able to see a couple of brush strokes. Your third coat is sort of the golden coat and will give you completely solid coverage. So the special glazes you can work with, like these ones I have on the wall, include paints like your burst, your pottery and your courtyard. Your burst paints are really, really popular and their mostly used for doing large areas and covering most inside and outside of pieces. Your pottery glazes are a more traditional glaze that really looks like the more traditional pottery that you see. The courtyard glazes are used mainly for decorative items. Even though they are food safe, so you can use them on any piece. Courtyards are really, really neat because they actually have 2 different functions. You can create a courtyard that has a nice matte finish and sort of grainy. But you can also use it as a shiny, really glassy look to your piece.

Types of Enamel Pottery Glaze

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