03/06/2025
HOW TO GLAZE:
First step is actually I don't glaze the sculptures. I underglaze. What's the difference? Well, how many chapters do you want on glaze chemistry?
None? Good, me too. I was up all night with a dog who has dementia. I'm pooped. He pooped too. Everywhere.
Basically, in my studio, one works like little pots of coloured paint, and the other is in huge buckets and pieces get dipped into them.
So, I paint with the little pots. But underglaze is tricky. It's not completely opaque unless you do 5 gazillion coats, and each colour is more or less opaque than the other. So you have to learn by doing, often by doing wrong.
But, yay! You can repaint badly underglazed pieces. It's not easy, but it's doable. Most of ceramics works that way: yes, I can fix my mistake (unless I can't 😖) but it takes time, finesse, and please, loving husband ( ), the mini angle grinder 😘😘😘.
Hope you are having a lovely day, we are here, snug and warm, recovering from 3am poopmagheddon.