Ceramics Glaze Bubbles

Apply the glaze in a thinner layer to minimize its ability to contain large bubbles.

Ceramics glaze bubbles.

See more ideas about pottery techniques ceramic techniques glazes for pottery. I used a plate i made out of a medium fire clay that i bisque fired. Blisters are evident on the fired glaze surface as a moonscape of craters some with sharp edges and others rounded. Use clays not containing large gas generating particles i e.

These craters are the remnants of bubbles that have burst during final approach to temperature or early stages of cooling. She is a studio technician at the michigan art center and started. Fire it in the glaze kiln and enjoy your new bubble patterned piece. The author hedy yang is a ceramic artist from novi michigan.

The firing is cone 6 7 with a slow cooling down cycle. Fritted glazes generate far fewer bubbles although they can still come from the clay portion of the recipe used for suspending the glaze slurry binders used for hardening and from colorants under the glazes. Efforts are made to create a dense laydown to reduce air pockets in dried glaze layer. In some cases there will be some unburst bubbles with a fragile dome than can be broken.

When the glaze is applied i see little air bubbles which i rub down. Pyrites sulphates some fluid glazes i e. I have experimented with different glazing techniques and consistencies of glaze. If the dried bubbles leave behind thick crumbs of glaze you ve applied too much.

Apr 21 2017 explore lsimmons s board bubble glaze on pinterest.