Glazing

•Glaze is a layer or coating of a vitreous substance which has been fused to a ceramic object through firing. Glaze can serve to colour, decorate, strengthen or waterproof an item.

•Vitreous enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass by firing, The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating

Combining High Fire Glaze

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Slips, Engobes and Underglazes
Ceramsics Daily

Pouros  Vs. Non-poros

What are the two basic forms below?
What is their functions?
How does the glaze contribute to the "functionality" of both forms below?

Unglazed

Mug


Before and After
Glaze appears Chalky and as if all the texture  is lost

After Firing

1 COAT of Light Blue Glazs

3 Coats of Light Blue Glaze

layered-surfaces-

Glaze Ideas

layered-surfaces-Underglaze Scraffito. erin-furimsky

Wax Resist

Slip Trailing  Slip Trailing

More Slip Decoration


There are many ways to add Color and Contrast or to Draw into your piece/pottery. Scraffito is when you use an Engobe on Leather hard Clay and then carve out Line to expose the clay

Non Glaze Ideas

use media such as pastel and then spraying with gloss