Special Effect Glazes

Author: Linda Bloomfield
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1912217899
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
A complete guide to fantastic special effects glazes for studio potters. From drippy and crackle to ash and lichen glazes, experienced ceramicist Linda Bloomfield guides you through the world of special effect glazes. Beautifully illustrated with pieces from both emerging and established potters that showcase stunning copper oxide-blues, metallic bronzes and manganese-pink crystal glazes, Special Effect Glazes is packed full of recipes to try out: from functional oilspot glazes using iron oxide, to explosive lava glazes. In this informative handbook discover how you can create these fantastic effects and learn the basic chemistry behind glazes in order to adjust and experiment with your unique pieces. Discussed are materials and stains, how to find them and how they affect the colour and texture of the glaze, alongside practical fixes to familiar glaze-making problems. Special Effect Glazes is essential if you are interested in creating eye-catching glazes and wanting to develop your knowledge of glaze-making, or experiment with your own formulas to achieve the perfect finish.

Colour in Glazes

Author: Linda Bloomfield
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1789941172
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
An essential handbook for studio potters working towards achieving a fantastic spectrum of colourful glazes. Colour in Glazes teaches you all the methods for achieving colour in glazes, focusing on colouring oxides in detail, including the newly available rare earth oxides. Find out about the types of base glazes and the fluxes used to make them in relation to colour response as well as using colouring oxides to achieve depth and variety of colour, rather than resorting to commercial ceramic stains. Discover the practical aspects of mixing, applying, testing and adjusting glazes, and explore a large section of test tiles and glaze recipes for use on white earthenware, stoneware and porcelain fired in electric, gas and salt kilns. This new edition, fully updated and revised, contains advances in technology and new discoveries in the Periodic Table. It is an infallible handbook to achieving the colour you want, and to help you broaden your palette.

Glazes for Special Effects

Author: Herbert H. Sanders
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
"Contains chapters on crystals and various types of crystalline glazes, the technique of copper reduction glazes, the accumulation and use of ash for wood ash and plant ash glazes and embellishments such as luster and underglaze decoration. The book also presents a raku demonstration and an explanation of the differences in philosophy and practice between Japanese and American approaches to making raky ware. Other subjects include porcelain body compositions on which to use the glazes, coloring oxides for porcelain slip, localized reduction firing, Arabian luster glazing, soluble salts decorating, and how to make your own frits. There are also tables of complex ash glazes and of formulas for commercial frits."--Dust jacket.

The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes

Author: John Britt
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600592164
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
"With recipes for mixing, testing, applying, and firing hundreds of high-fire glazes, this fully illustrated reference will help all ceramists gain a better understanding of glazes and the factors that make them work."--Book Jacket.

Oriental Glazes

Author: Michael Bailey
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812218909
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
This book shows how best to achieve oriental glazes by discussing materials, glaze analysis and recipes, kilns and fuel, and reduction firing techniques.

Amazing Glaze

Author: Gabriel Kline
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 0760361037
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
"This book made me fall in love with glaze all over again." —Ben Carter, author of Mastering the Potter’s Wheel 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 you'll set yourself up for success, then move on to learning the tools and techniques for getting your glaze right every time. Along the way, Gabriel shares dozens of tried-and-true recipes and combinations for both mid-range and high-fire glazes. The recipes and foundational techniques of Amazing Glaze 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 you're after crystalline effects, an elusive red, or a crash-course in applying decals it's all here. A variety of artist features and stunning gallery work from today's top artists will leave you inspired and ready to get glazing.

Cone 5-6 Glazes

Author: Bill Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574983364
Category : Ceramics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book features the research of more than thirty potters and glaze enthusiasts who have dedicated hundreds of hours of research into finding and understanding materials and glazes that provide the right effect for their pottery.

The Handbook of Glaze Recipes

Author: Linda Bloomfield
Publisher: Herbert Press
ISBN: 1912217481
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An essential resource for all potters, containing a broad range of glaze recipes and clay bodies, illustrated with helpful test tiles.

Glazes Cone 6

Author: Michael Bailey
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812217827
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
The exceptionally wide variety of glazes and glazing techniques possible at this popular temperature are fully explored in this excellent resource.

Science for Potters

Author: Linda Bloomfield (Potter)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574983845
Category : Ceramics
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description