Book

Amazing glaze: techniques, recipes, finishing, and firing

by  Gabriel Kline / John Britt

Description

Whether you look forward to glazing your work or are guilty of saying "I hate glazing!" Amazing Glaze is for you. Join author and Odyssey Clayworks founder Gabriel Kline on a journey that makes glazing less intimidating and more fun. Start in the "glaze kitchen" where youll set yourself up for success, then move on to learning the tools and techniques for glazing right every time. Along the way, Gabriel shares dozens of tried-and-true recipes and combinations for both mid-range and high-fire. The recipes and the foundational techniques here are just the beginning. Learn about layering with slip and underglaze, work with resists, and combine techniques to take your glazing above and beyond. Whether youre after crystalline effects, an elusive red, or a crash-course in applying luster, its all here. A variety of artist features and stunning gallery work from todays top artists will leave you inspired and ready to get glazing!

Table Of Contents

  • Get ready to glaze. The glaze kitchen
  • What is glaze?
  • Preparing to glaze
  • Testing
  • Gallery
  • Applying glaze (AKA the dance). Glaze design
  • forming a plan
  • Basic application (AKA glaze kitchen choreography)
  • Single coat
  • Layering glazes
  • 12 tried-and-true layering combinations
  • Gallery
  • Going further with glaze. Building depth
  • Resists
  • Alternative application techniques
  • Special considerations
  • Gallery
  • Special topics. Reds
  • Crystalline glazes
  • Decals, china paints and lusters
  • Non-glaze finishes
  • Raku and atmospheric firing
  • Gallery
  • Firing, finishing, and fixing. The basics of firing
  • Glaze firing
  • Cleaning it up
  • Testing durability
  • Gallery
  • The recipes. Notes
  • High-fire glazes
  • Mid-range glazes
  • Low-fire glazes
  • Raku glazes
  • Slips
  • Underglazes, washes, terra sigillates, and other recipes

Subject

Pottery craft / Glazes

Details

Published Minneapolis, MN : Voyageur Press, 2018
Language English
Material 199 p.
ISBN 0760361037 / 9780760361030
Location
TCDC Chiang Mai - General Collection

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