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Ceramic Glazes

Material Substitutions with Glazy.org – Video Tutorial

Recipe sharing Glazy.org is a free ceramic recipe sharing website where users can upload glaze recipes and photos to share with the ceramics community. Material substitutions In this tutorial, I show you how to use Glazy to make material substitutions using the UMF...

Adding Colourants in Glazy.org – Video Tutorial

Ceramic Glazes

Recipe sharing Glazy.org is a free ceramic recipe sharing website where users can upload glaze recipes and photos to share with the ceramics community. Adding colourants to a recipe In this tutorial, I go over how to add colourants to a recipe and keep the colourants...

Intro to Glazy.org – Video Tutorial

Ceramic Glazes

Recipe sharing Glazy.org is a free ceramic recipe sharing website where users can upload glaze recipes and photos to share with the ceramics community. Intro to Glazy.org If you've never used Glazy.org before, this is a helpful tutorial to get started. In this...

How to Turn a Matte Glaze Glossy with One Ingredient

Ceramic Glazes

A simple way to turn your matte glaze glossy Do you have a matte glaze that you wish was a bit glossier, or would you like a glossy version of one of your matte glazes? It's really easy to convert a matte glaze to a glossy glaze, just by adding one ingredient - Silica...

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Studio Processes

How to Convert Kaolin to Calcined Kaolin

Ceramic Glazes, Studio Processes

If you have too much clay in a glaze recipe, you might have issues with your glaze crawling during the firing. Crawling is where the glaze pulls away from the clay body due to a combination of shrinkage, poor adhesion and high surface tension.

Don’t Skimp on Safety in the Glaze Lab

Studio Processes

Most of our glaze materials come to us in their very basic, unprocessed form. They are dug out of the ground, impurities may or may not be removed, they are ground into a fine powder, bagged and shipped to our suppliers. Working with these minerals in their raw state poses some health risks.

Ceramic Art

Where Did Your Coffee Cup Come From?

Ceramic Art

Made by hand. This morning I drank my coffee out of a mug I made at art school in Nelson, British Columbia. Fond memories of an important chapter of my life swirl through my head.

500 Teapots

Ceramic Art

I see the teapot form as a 3 dimensional canvas for the ultimate creativity challenge. Sometimes I’ll sketch out a vision before I get started and other times I just go to town making various shapes and then selecting the parts that fit best together.

10 Valuable Side Effects to Working With Clay

Ceramic Art

Clay is an exceptional teacher. While I was learning how to make forms on the potter’s wheel, or how to fire my kiln to a perfectly hot cone 6, I was also simultaneously learning some valuable virtues of living a balanced and harmonious life.