Painting the Pot Tips

Video Transcript

"I'm Mark Coy. We've done our bisqued fire and now we are ready to paint our pot. The thing that we need to remember about glazing is that we call it painting but it is not paint. Glazes are thermal reaction to chemicals and compounds that are mixed that have different reactions when heated to high temperatures. So we are looking at different sorts of glazes that you can get from a variety of companies and different kinds. This is an under glaze. Under glaze allows you to do more fine detail. You can do a glaze over a glaze. You can butt glazes up to each other and you can mix them together and get different colors and they work just fine. There are other glazes like invasion glazes that are shiny. These are flat; the under glazes are flat. Your shiny glazes when you mix them together you can get very different results than what you may want. Because again they are definitely depending on that thermal reaction to get the colors. Especially the crystal glazes; the little tiny crystals in it that you put on. If you mix those together, you can get some cool things happening but sometimes not so cool. So you want to do a test tile and check out your glaze and see what is going to work and what's not. At this stage then, we put them back in the kiln will go up to about 1800 degrees, a cone 06 for low fire glazes and clays which is what we have been working with and the bisques is a cone 04."