#midfire

[wellthats-interesting]

I forgot I had made this little pride pumpkin a while back

[angeceramics]

Straight faceted mugs These will be available online Friday 27th at 12pm midday as well as a few other treasures :) #potter#handmademug#midfire#faceted#melbournepotter#ceramicartist https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd4eNrGvxjU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[angeceramics]

Freshly thrown set of bowls It’s feels great to be back on the wheel again and slinging clay around. I’ll trim foot rings on the bases of these tomorrow once the clay has stiffened up. #wheelthrown#bowls#handmadepottery#potter#midfire https://www.instagram.com/p/CYsSQM2Pzeh/?utm_medium=tumblr

[camtot]

Medic please

[camtot]

A colourful plate and a wiggly flower

[storibeart]

#coffee #cup #pottery #greenware #midfire #clay https://www.instagram.com/p/CCyj_XcHNrt/?igshid=19ib2svf2t56c

[tinasfortress]

I’m so proud of this teapot & I’m working hard to make more pieces like this for my grad school application. I really want to continue learning ceramics & I think by going thru an MFA program I will be pushed to do better.

[skimcasual]

I have got to ask what kind of glaze you use because those are amazing and as a fellow ceramics person I know how hard it can be to get glaze right and other such. I fucking love your work btw

Hi! Thank you for the question. ^^ AND thanks for being a fan of my work!

Almost all of my work is on mid-fire white stoneware. I use both a combination of food-safe commercial glazes (amaco brand cherrry blossom pink and their lavender, deep sienna speckle (it’s red), matte yellow, a couple of greenish Spectrum glazes) and glazes mixed at the studio (french blue, tyler amber, glossy white, glossy clear, floating blue, cream rust, glossy celadon, matte green, once in a blue moon I’ll try matte blue)

Here’s the ones I use the most:

Celadon

Basically, my safety glaze. I used it a lot in the beginning, and I still frequently return to this glaze for being a stable, non-runny, reliable, predictable, stress-free, drama-free, surprise-free glaze. This glaze is also very well-known in Korea. It can look teal if applied thick, so I try to make sure to apply it thin to get that green hue.

French Blue

A glossy warm blue glaze, almost as stable and flawless as celadon. It combines nicely with floating blue or tyler amber to create dark green overlaps. It creates an oil-spot patterning when overlapped on white, or the white glaze vanishes if it’s applied over blue. (glaze formula for glossy white varies from studio to studio, so this isn’t guaranteed to be the case everywhere.)

Tyler Amber

Glossy warm brown glaze. It emphasizes the grain in the clay. It has a fun property where if it’s applied over french blue, it’ll turn green; and if it’s overlapped with the glossy white, it turns the white tan in color (it happened on the lip in this cup) but doesn’t budge where the white glaze is. When it overlaps with floating blue, it mutes the blueness of the floating blue slightly. Overall reliable worry-free glaze.

Floating Blue

Blue where it’s applied thicker, bronze where it’s applied thinner. A little runny but very stable and predictable. It’s my favorite glaze to use if I’m making a cup with a fish or ocean related motif.

Amaco “Cherry Blossom” Pink

My favorite pink glaze after trying out 4 other kinds of pink glazes. The color burns away if the kiln fires above cone 6 though. Mostly I use this glaze as an accent rather than for the whole cup. Plays nice with other glazes, doesn’t do anything too exciting like pitting, crawling, or crazing.

Terrazzo PG618

My new favorite new glaze! It’s opaque and it looks cookies-and-cream delicious. Or like a color-inverted night sky? Completely glossy, food-safe, plays well with most other glazes.

I try to tag each cup post with the names of the glazes I used on that cup. Check out the tags #celadon #french blue #tyler amber #floating blue #matte green #amaco cherry blossom pink when you see them to see a bunch of pots with those same glazes.

PS to anyone reading: I’m saving up to buy a kiln! If this post was helpful to you and you’d like to send me a few bucks towards the “get a new kiln” and “hire an electrician to wire up the kiln” fund, here’s my ko-fi: http://ko-fi.com/skimlines