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Low Fire Glaze Recipes

If you are interested in building a collection of beautiful low-fire ceramic glaze recipes, or adding variety to the glazes you already have, you've come to the right place. In this section, you’ll find a whole lot of information on making and using low fire glazes, from textured to matt, and from majolica to glossy transparent glazes. As always, you’ll also see full-color images of finished work glazed using these low fire glaze recipes. And don't forget to download your free copy of 33 Tried and True Glaze Recipes, a perfect resource for potters and ceramic artists who are ready to experiment with custom glazes, or for those who have grown tired of their own tried and true glazes.



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April 15, 2009

Potter Kari Radasch shares her technique for the applique decoration on her pottery. Plus she shares her clay, slip and glaze recipes.

February 4, 2009

Today, we'll see some of ceramic artist Lee Akin's photographs and learn how he uses stains, glazes and underglazes to create surfaces inspired by his photographs. Plus, Lee shares some of the slip and glaze recipes he uses to achieve the effects that he wants.

December 8, 2008

Greetings Ceramic Arts Daily readers! Well, I blinked and the next thing I knew it was time to shift my daytime focus from playing peek-a-boo and changing diapers to sending newsletters and updating web pages. Yes, my maternity leave has ended and I have taken back the Ceramic Arts Daily reins from Sherman Hall (thanks Sherman for doing my job these last ten weeks!). It was tough leaving my little one this morning, but the blow was softened by the fact that now I get to start thinking about clay again. Today's feature is just the ticket to get me excited about being back at work. Ceramic artist Kari Radasch explains how she piles glazes with various melting points onto her ...

November 19, 2008

Have you ever mixed or purchased a glaze, put it on a piece that you had been saving for that super-successful-surface-treatment that was going to take your work to that next level, break through that barrier you had been struggling against, make you rich and famous? Well, I have. I was living the good life in my head as I was glazing the piece. I was thinking of all the shows I was going to get into, all the awards I was going to win. Guess what—it didn't work. It's not that the glaze didn't work, it's that my expectations were so high that I could only be disappointed by the result. What I learned was that glazes ...

November 10, 2008

One of the best ways to make a large, complex piece of work is to break it down into its component parts and tackle them one by one. Suddenly, it's not one big project, but several smaller projects that are not quite as daunting. In this first of a two-part series, Colorado ceramic artist Donna Rozman shows us a variation on this approach: how to start simple and end up with a complex result. Her technique for ceramic tile design is both simple and effective, and it's a great exercise in generating new ideas.

March 26, 2008

On Monday, we brought you Joan Carcia’s saggar-firing technique. Today, as promised, we’ll share the other secret to her success with this technique: her terra sigillata recipe. Enjoy!