Glazing tips: Prepare your pottery for successful glazing

If you are a potter, how many times have you found a lid stuck to a teapot or lidded box due to the glazing? How many times have you wiped off glaze that you should not have wiped off? How many times did you loose a lovely teapot because you had to break the lid loose from the teapot?

These pictures below are examples of the glazing challenges that potters experience when making anything with a lid on.

Glazing fault. The teapot broke when the lid was forced off.

Another glaze fault. The lid got stuck during firing and had to be removed with force from the teapot

Connie shows the teapot set that she created during the online class.

​Connie Christensen is a ceramic artist from Denver, Colorado and is one of the online art instructors at TeachinArt. She explains how to prevent some of the glazing problems that makes life difficult for potters. Her first online class at TeachinArt (Faceted teapot set) was to teach pottery students how to throw a proper tea set on the wheel - using porcelain clay. She used wiggle wire as the decoration tool for the faceting and demonstrated how to make a cane handle for the teapot. She is also the instructor of the Shino glazing online class.

In the online class, Connie discuss glazing challenges and shows easy techniques for preparing pots for successful glazing.

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Links:
Faceted teapot set e-course with Connie Christensen
Shino glazing e-course with Connie Christensen
Glazing made easy e-course with Antoinette Badenhorst (guest artist Lynn Barnwell)
E-courses (online classes) at TeachinArt
Demonstrations, tips and techniques
Our art instructors

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