Testing a glaze
ceramics, my art, potters :: posted on May 16th, 2009
I recently wrote about these test pots, but I thought I would write a complete blog about the test as it was such fun! At this stage the pots have been bisque fired and I have made up glaze mixes using a range of quantities of both red and yellow ochre, clay and whiting.
So this is what the fired test pots look like – quite a different appearance now! So from this group I selected four to work with on the tiles I have made.
Each of the pots has the mix I used to create that glaze written in iron on the bottom of it. This means I can recreate it with some degree of accuracy for the tiles.
I added water to the mix and then painted it onto the tiles. The actual leaf emboss has been painted with temoku glaze, which is a glossy black, and the background is in a range of the homemade glazes. So now they are waiting to be fired, which will hopefully happen this week and I will be able to pick them up on Wednesday, which is my last Adult Ed pottery class for the term. There are nine tiles in the group and they go together to form a design that I hope to be able to mount as a wall piece. So if all goes well, there will be yet another post about this!
