Glazing Possibilities- 28 Different Approaches to Glazing Pottery! PART 1!

This video is preparing my Ceramics students to glaze their pieces at the end of the semester.

In this video, I glaze 28 wheel thrown bowls. We use stoneware glazes (cone 5 and 6 midfire) on our Standard 153 stoneware, a nice midrange firing stoneware. I used Coyote brand cone 6 glazes and underglazes in the carved design grooves on a few bowls to keep the stoneware glazes separate when they fire. I now use Standard 125 which is a lovely cone 6 stoneware that looks the same as the 153~

#1
SOLID DIP using tongs and full dunk
Croc Blue
@ 4:25

#2
SOLID COLOR DIP hold by edge with hand- partial dip, and finish dip
Croc Blue
@ 4:45

#3
BRUSH INSIDE/OUTSIDE
Lemon Cream Satin Inside; Orange outside
@ 5:14

#4
POUR INSIDE/ POUR OUTSIDE
Light Shino inside first, Cactus Green outside last
@ 6:09

#5
⅔ DIP AND ⅔ DIP
Shino over Steel Gray Shino
@ 7:11

#6
WAX RESIST OVER GLAZE
Desert Sage over Steel Gray Shino
@ 7:30

#7
WAX ON BARE CLAY
Cedar Shino
@ 8:18

# 8
TAPE RESIST ON BARE CLAY
Desert Sage
@ 8:50

#9
TAPE RESIST OVER GLAZE
Shino over Steel Gray Shino
@ 9:42

# 10
DOUBLE DIP RIM ARCHIES SERIES
Baby Blue Satin with Blue Purple
10:35

#11
BRUSHING A BLENDED OVERLAPPING OF LAYERS
Cobalt, Really Red, and Violet
@ 11:12

#12
POUR ORGANICALLY
Desert sage, blue shino, and light shino (last)
@ 11:35

#13
LAYERING FULL COLORS
Sapphire over Violet
@ 12:27

#14
DIPPING WITH TEXTURE - AND AN ADDED GLAZE LAYER INSIDE
Black interior- whole thing dipped in desert sage
@ 13:21

#15
BRUSHING WITH TEXTURE
Rootbeer Interior- Sapphire Exterior, 2 coats on texture, 3 on smooth
@ 13:51

#16
CARVED UNDERGLAZE- (LANDSCAPE) CELADONS
Interior: Rootbeer, Exterior: sapphire, rainy day, key lime, peacock (trees only) and dusty rose
@ 14:18

#17
CARVED UNDERGLAZE- BRUSH, BULB SYRINGE
Really Red Brushed inside, Shino, really red, and orange- lines with black underglaze first
@ 14:57

#18
SHINO FAMILY OVER BLACK
Light Shino over black, Archies on rim
@ 17:57

# 19
CELADON GLAZES- TRANSPARENT, SHOW TEXTURES
Rootbeer
@18:21

#20
SLIP TRAILING- (GREENWARE)
Black Underglaze wiped, Dipped in dusty rose
@ 18:33

#21
LUSTER OVERGLAZE ON MATTE AND GLOSSY
Alabaster Satin overlapped on White (Gloss)
@ 19:10

#22 MISHAMA- GREENWARE
Sapphire dipped
@ 20:20

#23
BRUSH DESIGN OVER BASE GLAZE (REGULAR GLAZE)
White Gloss with Cobalt lines over
@ 21:26

#24
BRUSH DESIGN OVER BASE GLAZE (SATIN GLAZE)
Over Baby Blue Satin
@ 21:26

#25
BRUSH DESIGN OVER BASE GLAZE (UNDERGLAZE- 1 COAT)
Coyote Blue Underglaze over White Dip
@21:37

#26
SGRAFFITO- Greenware
Coyote Red underglaze, then carved (bisqued)
Dipped in clear- really red coat in middle over clear
@ 21:57

#27
TEXAS 2 STEP DIP
Marshmallow and Blue Moon over Coffeebean
@ 23:28

#28
TEXAS 2 STEP BRUSH
Marshmallow and Blue Moon over Licorice
@ 24:15

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[potterkelly]

Wow, your students are very lucky to have you and all of these options and learning tools.

[Ambikaaaa]

The world needs more teachers like you Karan. I wish I could learn under you. Thank you for making these elaborate videos for us who can't be a part of your classes. ❤️

[atelier_du_peyron]

I think it's amazing that this video was made 2 years ago and it will always be here to teach us....this is brilliant! Thank you so much!

[virginiaseymour]

So jealous this random public high school has a whole ceramics studio!

[joshuabucolo]

Art teacher here looking for a useful video to refresh my glaze knowledge, as it's been a few years since I was in a school with a working kiln. All I can say is, wow. Absolute goldmine of a video. Don't think they covered half of this in my undergrad ceramics course. Everything about this video and your studio is inspirational as an Art Educator. Kudos.

[michelefisher]

I’m learning pottery. Not many want to share their knowledge! Thank you!

[Vpnrules]

I've been doing pottery for about 6 months now and I've already learned more in this one video than all of the other resources I've studied. Thank you for making this!

[thatthat]

This studio is amazing. Can see a lot of love and hard work was at play to build it. Faith in humanity restored.

[stormyweathers]

The possibility, the tools, the extremely well organized workshop and the variety of glazes you have, all is so great. Thanks so much for the tutorial!

[carinwiseman]

I have had ceramics classes at local art centers and at the college level. None of my teachers was as good as you. I hope your students realize what a great and competent teacher you are!

[greybeardedman]

thanks Karan...love teaching and learning. (retired educator after 43 yrs) Recently bought wheel and kiln after taking a couple of classes. You are now teaching me in a detailed way. So good!!

[swamykatragadda]

great teacher and school, giving livelihood and hobby, i do not think this much information in 28 minutes is given by anyone.

[HELX-SPACE]

I wish I'm a kid and going to your school. You're such a great teacher and that looks like a first rate studio. Thanks for sharing this video. 💗💗💗
I can imagine how your students have benefited from the amount of skill and creative expression that they got to learn and experience.
I also loved the practical tips like... how do you problem solved and think 3 dimensionally. Or how do you work efficiently and keep your studio clean. There's just so much fun and info to unpack.

[GrandmaGG]

This is so awesome! I had a blast watching this video. I am 44 years old.

[katillack]

Very very helpful! Out of all the tutorials i’ve watched and people i’ve asked today in studio, this has been THE MOST helpful for me! I’m under the impression that you are happy doing what you’re doing, and that you’re a wonderful teacher. Thank you so much, you’re incredibly kind to post this publicly. With love from Massachussets ❤️

Kat

[liz]

This was so helpful! Your class has more stuff than my studio where I pay like $200 for 6 week classes. So many useful techniques!

[morganvernie]

Wow I love all these ideas for glazing. I'm really excited to see the shino over black combo. I'm getting ideas for when I'm able to get back in the studio.

[aliciasauder]

You’re a true gem! Thank you for making this public but the fact that you put this much effort in for your students gives me so much happiness! Thank you for your work! Thank you for your dedication! ✨💖

[Neta]

I absolutly love how #12 turned out. Gonna try this when I have a good colors combo at the ceramic studio I go to.
Thank you!

[defyant]

We are all jealous we did not have you as an art teacher in HS! Paper mache was as exciting as it got. Thank you and thanks to Mason High for sharing this - it is EXACTLY what I needed. The pdf is absolutely wonderful. I opened a second browser and watched them side by side. I too was amazed at your organization. I had Uni of Cincinnati art teachers when I first started (now in Fl) and they were not nearly as organized or as helpful. You were so good during COVID too. I didn't have a wheel /kiln back then but I watched faithfully and so glad I did. Thank you Thank you Thank you.