Ceramics Glaze Bubbles

These craters are the remnants of bubbles that have burst during final approach to temperature or early stages of cooling.

Ceramics glaze bubbles. Rutile blue tend to be quite sensitive to thick application and fast firing and cooling and bubbling problems with them seem out of place. She is a studio technician at the michigan art center and started. The lines of glaze should be thin and smooth against the piece. 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. Pyrites sulphates some fluid glazes i e. The firing is cone 6 7 with a slow cooling down cycle. 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. Apply the glaze in a thinner layer to minimize its ability to contain large bubbles. I have experimented with different glazing techniques and consistencies of glaze. Use clays not containing large gas generating particles i e.

If the dried bubbles leave behind thick crumbs of glaze you ve applied too much. The author hedy yang is a ceramic artist from novi michigan. I used a plate i made out of a medium fire clay that i bisque fired. See more ideas about pottery techniques ceramic techniques glazes for pottery.

In some cases there will be some unburst bubbles with a fragile dome than can be broken.