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#42: 4 ways to glaze your pottery
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On this episode of Shaping Your Pottery you will learn about the 4 ways to glaze your pottery. These 4 different ways each get different effects and all of them have different levels of learning.
Technique 1: Brushing (level easy)
Technique 2: Dipping (level medium)
Technique 3: Pouring (level medium)
Technique 4: Spraying (level hard)
to learn more about these 4 techniques listen to the episode now
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Transcript
Introduction to Pottery Styles with Nick Torres
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If you love pottery and want to take your skills to the next level, you're in the right place. Find your own pottery style right here on Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Let's get started.
Exploring Glazing Techniques
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So you are ready to start glazing, but how are you supposed to glaze them? What techniques are you supposed to use? What are you supposed to do?
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What is up my pottery shapers and welcome to Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. In this episode you will learn four different ways to glazing your pottery.
Discovering Personal Glazing Styles
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There are a few different ways to glazing your pottery and when we find our own style to how we like to glaze it makes everything a lot smoother.
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and you can kind of play around with different effects with more techniques you learn.
Brushing Glaze: Detailed Designs
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So the first one that I'm going to explain to you is called brushing the glaze on. This is more made for when you have those pint-sized, about a pint-sized of glaze. And it takes a little bit longer to do, but you can still get the same effect as any other one.
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but the benefit to this one is that you can be more detailed with the glazes because you're using a brush and so let's say you have a carving on your pottery but you only want a certain part to be let's say red and the rest of part of it blue. You can use a brush to get that carving
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and you can only make it red while you can make the other part of it blue. That is the benefit of really brushing your pottery on. You can really be detailed with it.
Dipping Technique: Speed and Combo Effects
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Number two is dipping your pottery into a bucket with the glaze in it. So one of the benefits to dipping your glazes is that it's a lot faster to do than brushing and anything else.
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It's a lot faster because all you have to do is just dip it in one, two seconds, about three seconds or so. You just dip it in and you take it out and let it dry. And then if you want to keep on adding other glazes to try to get a little bit of a combo effect, you could do it much faster this way.
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The cons is you kind of have to play around a little bit more in order to really see what works for dipping. And you really have to make sure the glaze is almost perfect because with the bucket, you need to monitor how much water is in there, how much glaze is in there. Otherwise, you're not going to be able to get the full effect dipping.
Pouring Technique for Large Pieces
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So number three.
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is pouring. Now pouring is a lot like dipping but it's more meant for those pieces that are too large and can't fit inside the bucket. So let's say you have a really large bowl and it's very wide. Let's say it's about let's say six inches seven inches or so wide. See that's going to be too large for the bucket so you're not going to be able to dip it in. So what you want to do is get about
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a measuring cup or so, and you just start pouring it on to the pottery. And there are many different ways to do this. You can set up two little pieces of wood onto the bucket so that when you pour it, the glaze goes back into the bucket, or you can hold the pot itself in one hand and just pour it in the inside. So those are the ways that you can pour it. Pouring is a lot like dipping, so the effects
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are kind of the same. The pros and cons are pretty much the same.
Spraying Technique: Complex and Unique
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Now the last one that I like to talk about is called spraying your pottery. Spraying is probably the hardest one to learn out of all of these, but it could give you the
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the best effects it can get you a lot cooler effects than all these other ones. The cons to it is that it takes a lot longer to learn and it also takes a little bit longer to actually glaze your pottery. But the pros to this is that you can make some really really cool combinations and you can get some really cool effects just by spraying it.
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You could spray the whole thing in one color and then go around and just do like spots of another color in a different area of the pot.
Recap and Finding Your Glazing Fit
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So those were the four. Let me go over them one more time. So the first one is brushing. The second one is dipping. The third one is pouring and the fourth one is spraying. These waves can each have different effects and they are a lot
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A lot of them have a lot of benefits, but it's up to you to find which one works best for you. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Do you have questions about pottery that you'd like Nick to answer? Send them to us on Instagram at Nick Torres underscore pottery. We'll see you next time.