Matte Ceramic Glaze Recipes

In today s post donna shares what she learned about getting that perfect melt as well as a couple of her cone 6 matte glaze recipes.

Matte ceramic glaze recipes. Matte glazes tested on three different clay bodies at rat city studios. Jennifer poellot harnetty editor. Experimenting with ceramic glaze recipes is one of the most exciting and important ways to learn about ceramic materials. If you re not sure whether matte glazes are appropriate there are some simple rules to help decide when a matte glaze may be right for your work.

The glaze has to melt enough to move the glazes slightly and add depth to the imagery but not too much. That s why we have a large section of ceramic arts network dedicated to ceramic glaze recipes. I want to try the american shino too. Magnesium oxide in a recipe yields matte and fat matte glazes.

I ll be putting it over a textured piece and then wiping it off. Red iron oxide 10002 1500. I ll be using the mackenzie grey in a soda kiln. I came upon your glazes while looking for a matte while glaze.

2 readers digest red. Surface quality or opacity. I ll send a photo. But glaze chemistry can be an overwhelming subject.

That s why we are providing the best homemade pottery glaze recipes that your child will enjoy using and some other key factors involved in the process of this. 24 crackle clear currie strontium series oil spot and hare s fur glazes flat black varden wrinkle white slip base yehrim s pyrometric cone recipe yellow flashing slip iron oxide slip mason stained porcelain casting slip. A matte glaze is not simply an underfired glaze and depending on the formula the dry or non gloss surface may actually be a slip or terra sigillata not a glaze at all. Recipe details should hover over the image in a caption when the cursor is moved over the image.

Here you ll find everything from low fire raku glaze recipes to high. We will discuss in each recipe the materials needed along with what you need to do in order to mix these together. Here is a brief description of the properties of these oxides related to matte surfaces and color development in these particular recipes. Some people don t want to look for recipes but instead want to make their own.

It will come out great i know. The clay i m using is basically amador which fires very dark. In a month or so there will be another page added with written details on each glaze test.