#amaco glaze

[claypigeonpottery]

look at all my beetles!!!

so cute 😍 I’ll have to label them all somehow lol

[jbbartram-illu]

Here's a little look at some of the bird-type creatures I got back from the kiln yesterday. I'm super happy with some of these glaze combos / generally into how most of these fired up! That top one is a particular triumph - it looks like it belongs in a magical swamp <3

[humblebeginningsceramics]

Slightly unhinged otter ceramic tumbler 🦦

I didn’t mean for him to look so unhinged, a friend commented that he looked desperate for a drink! I have been exploring different positions for my animals on ceramic vessels, and this one has the cute little otter hanging on the rim by its paws. The tumbler was thrown on the wheel and the otter was sculpted later, biscuit-fired separately and attached by glazing. I have found that this is the best way to avoid nasty cracks, one of the problems I struggled with most during my early days of creating my animal mugs. As with many other struggles I have had with ceramics, this took many trials and surfaced many errors until I arrived at this conclusion. 🥲

I used some new Amaco glazes here, 2x Blue Rutile on the tumbler body, 2x Iron Luster only at the rim on grey speckled stoneware, fired to cone 5, no hold. Honestly I’m not too keen on the colours of the tumbler, a bit too rustic for the vibe I had in mind, but I’d love to read your opinions! What do you think?

[revivify-inn]

Clear glaze center with the sides 2x Amaco Blue Midnight, 1-2x Mayco Norse Blue, and streaks of Mayco Aurora Green

[anneisanartist]

First official glaze firing of mine and student work. We are working with older glazes that we aren’t even quite sure where they came from. This studio is set up to mix glaze from scratch, which is something I’ve never done. While I see lots of room for improvement, considering I came into this with almost zero ceramic experience, I’m not too disappointed!

[madelynlumsdenceramics]

"Untitled"

Porcelain, Temmokou, Blue Rutile AMACO

2023

[ryegarden]

I did say I'd post my ceramics didn't I. I really ought to, seeing as it's all the work I've been making for the past.... Year and a half. Here's a couple of cups I thought tumblr would like and two bits that came out of the firing today that I really like!! If you want to see more consistent posts of these, I post everything on my ceramics Instagram @muddyfrankie

[ID: four photos of ceramic vessels photographed in strong sunlight. The first is a smooth white cup with a tiny black beetle painted on it. The second has two short matching white cups, with stars and swirls drawn on in blue on one cup and red on the other. The third image is of a rich midnight blue-black teacup. The fourth is of a speckled bowl in tones of dark grey, brown, and black. End ID]

[spacerockband]

iced strawberry animal cookie sound of the summer!

[janekfan]

[elijahsnightlite]

little update for yall!!!

they’re waiting to be fired now! colors are super vibrant

hello they might be giants fans… little wip for all of you

the flug if you will… a present for my favorite teacher who got me into tmbg :-) still needs to be re bisqued, glazed and fired ! but i will update with the finished piece and his reaction when its done :3

[dadsbasementpottery]

A warm and toasty brown mug. Amaco Albany Slip on Brown Bear clay. I love this glaze/clay combo for the "hot chocolate" vibes but mostly because this glaze holds good color on such a dark clay. I'll for sure be making more pieces like this.

[claypigeonpottery]

[jbbartram-illu]

Sorry if you've answered this already, but what glazes do you use?

Oh my god, what glazes DON'T I use?!

But seriously, I maybe have a glaze-buying problem (which isn't a surprise because I do this with every type of art I pick up...there are just Too Many Colours in the world, y'know?!).

If you can believe it, I've gotten way more sensible about my glaze purchasing - in my first few rounds of glaze-buying, I just went 'OOH pretty colour gotta get it!!!!' & now I take a moment to consider where the new glaze fits amongst my other colours & whether it provides me with exciting layering opportunities (also, stay tuned for my next answered ask, which is about glaze layering!!).

Here's an annotated photo of my glaze shelf - the main brands I use are Amaco, Mayco, and Coyote, & I just got two Spectrum sample sets for Xmas & am REALLY impressed with a lot of those glazes, especially the floating glazes (so there are indeed more pints in my future, o no):

Only sort of related -- this is what my pottery desk looks like right now after my whirlwind glazing session on the wee test owls/bowls (a damn mess that I'm not bothering to clean up b/c I've got a bisque load firing as I type & might get into glazing that tomorrow/Friday!!!):

AN IMPORTANT PSA TO END WITH: You do NOT need one million glazes to be a good & cool potter!!! I just have A Problem and Need To Be Stopped!

[humblebeginningsceramics]

Tumblers ❤️

I’ve been experimenting with textures and angled cuts, and tumblers are relatively simple forms to experiment with. I used a loop tool for the fluting and titanium-fused trimming Xiem tools for the angled cuts. So far the titanium-fused tools are holding up extremely well, especially as I like to throw with grogged clay, no matter how fine. My pitiful throwing sponge died a long time ago… 🪦

Testing glaze combinations has been both extremely frustrating and rewarding, sometimes with multiple refires or reglazing. These three tumblers came out lovely on the first try, and I thought the colours looked so cute together I had to take them stacked. My time at the Leach Pottery has instilled in me a love for iron breaking over texture that I can’t give up now.

Tumbler 1: Amaco Arctic Blue 2x over Iron Lustre 2x

Tumbler 2: Botz Beige Granite 2x body, Sand Granite 2x triangles, tape-resist method

Tumbler 3: Amaco Seaweed 2x over Honey Flux 2x

Fired to 1200C, no hold.

[revivify-inn]

So I've made it kinda clear I'm a Mayco glaze fangirl. To be clear I don't HATE Amaco glazes. I do feel that part of the reasons they're everyone's go-to is because they have the pottery class kits so most students START with Amaco glazes and that familiarity is there. And they're a very reputable brand! Their glazes are good!

But

A) Mayco performs better at higher temps. Just my experience here but Amaco potter's choice glazes will NEVER look the same color as the label if you fire to Cone 6. They lose vibrancy and color right away. The studio that I go to fires at a high Cone 6, so there's minimal color left and often bubbling issues. Mayco on the other hand has always held its color well.

B) Price. If I want to mess around with glaze combos, I'm buying the $14 jar. Of course there's a range of prices but overall? Mayco is consistently more affordable.

C) Crystal (Frit) glazes. I love Mayco's lines of Frit glazes! They're lovely and fun and makes layering and glaze combos unique and fun.

D) Mayco has more glazes with satin or matte finishes that are LOVELY, especially as I move away from gloss glazes more and more.

Again these are all just my opinions but Mayco, Coyote, and Western glazes are definitely underrated in my opinion, and Amaco is always viewed as a default which is tragic.

[anneisanartist]

Student work