Glazes & Glazing: Finishing Techniques
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Glazing Success in the Studio
We all remember our first experience with glazing and how our hopes usually exceeded our skills—and knowledge. Glazing plays an important part of ceramic art but can be rather mysterious to both the newcomer and the seasoned professional. While the chemistry may appear to be a bit like alchemy to the uninitiated, an established science and accepted practices provide order and repeatable results.Glazes & Glazing: Finishing Techniques covers many aspects of glazing. Artists share their methods and recipes while providing inspirational stories about their personal experiences in ceramics and how you can find success in your own studio.
A Timeless Resource for the Ceramic Artist
You’ll discover information on glaze formulation; applications such as dipping, pouring, and spraying; firing variations; characteristics of materials; testing; and even crystalline and ash glazing along with more than 100 successful recipes.
Whether you’re looking for fresh ideas, expanding your palette or exploring new techniques, Glazes & Glazing: Finishing Techniques provides a wealth of information, instruction and inspiration you’ll refer to for years to come.
In Using Gravity to Enhance a Glaze Surface: Kari Radasch maintains that the surface is more than a seductive veneer, and she embraces spontaneous yet purposeful marks to embrace as much information as possible. These marks have a huge impact on the glaze surface, which moves, melts and flows depending on the mass of different glazes she uses.
Preparing Wood Ash for Glazes: gets anyone started on this exciting and readily available ingredient. Kathy Chamberlain describes the five steps to cleaning wood ash so you’ll be prepared the next time you come across a recipe calling for it. Which could be one of the great recipes Mark Issenberg provides in his story about Spraying Wood Ash Glazes.
Here's more of what you'll find in Glazes & Glazing: Finishing Techniques
Todd Burns, a philosophy major turned ceramic artist, explores marine iconography on his series of Aegean-inspired forms using an image trasfer technique.
Frank James Fisher demonstrates three approaches in Glazing Patterns using direct contact, stencils and transfer.
Patrick Horsley, an avid experimenter, shares his Strong, Pure and Matt glazes.
Discover the dark-metal finish technique of Rollie Younger and his Boiler Teapots.
With Susan Beiner Too Much Is Not Enough as she applies brilliant colors fired from cone 6 to 10.
and much much more!
A Timeless Resource for the Ceramic Artist
You’ll discover information on glaze formulation; applications such as dipping, pouring, and spraying; firing variations; characteristics of materials; testing; and even crystalline and ash glazing along with more than 100 successful recipes.
Whether you’re looking for fresh ideas, expanding your palette or exploring new techniques, Glazes & Glazing: Finishing Techniques provides a wealth of information, instruction and inspiration you’ll refer to for years to come.
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