Ceramics Glaze Bubbles

The lines of glaze should be thin and smooth against the piece.

Ceramics glaze bubbles.

Fire it in the glaze kiln and enjoy your new bubble patterned piece. Efforts are made to create a dense laydown to reduce air pockets in dried glaze layer. These craters are the remnants of bubbles that have burst during final approach to temperature or early stages of cooling. Blisters are evident on the fired glaze surface as a moonscape of craters some with sharp edges and others rounded.

In this video i demonstrate how to do the bubble glaze technique for ceramics. Use clays not containing large gas generating particles i e. Apply the glaze in a thinner layer to minimize its ability to contain large bubbles. I used a plate i made out of a medium fire clay that i bisque fired.

Apr 21 2017 explore lsimmons s board bubble glaze on pinterest. 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. I have experimented with different glazing techniques and consistencies of glaze. She is a studio technician at the michigan art center and started.

If the dried bubbles leave behind thick crumbs of glaze you ve applied too much. In some cases there will be some unburst bubbles with a fragile dome than can be broken. See more ideas about pottery techniques ceramic techniques glazes for pottery. Rutile blue tend to be quite sensitive to thick application and fast firing and cooling and bubbling problems with them seem out of place.

When the glaze is applied i see little air bubbles which i rub down.