Post #674047 by GROG on Thu, Apr 11, 2013 3:21 AM

You can also do a wipe. Put the color of glaze (or underglaze for bisque) you want on your bisque, let it dry, and then use a wet sponge and lightly take it off in the high areas, and it will stay pooled in the low areas. Then put clear glaze over and fire.

This bowl has a dark wipe over a matte glaze. GROG glaze the bisque with Duncan Courtyard Glaze called Mediterranean Olive, but it didn't show the detail as well as GROG was hoping after it was fired. So GROG put on a darker glaze color and wiped it off, so that the dark glaze was only in the lower detailed areas. Put clear glaze over everything and fired again, and was much happier with the results.

This Ape mug has a yellow underglaze on the fez that went onto the greenware and then was fired. Then a watered-down black glaze was applied to the whole thing. It was wiped off all the fez except for the tassle and the band, and it was wiped off the face. A semi-transparent blue glaze was sprayed over the top of everything to give it the blue tint, and fired again.

You can also water down your glaze and brush it on your bisque. That way you get some glaze in the high areas, but a lot of the pigment will pool in the low areas. If it's watered down enough it will be matte if you want a matte finish. But, if it's not watered down enough it will be matte in the high areas and shiny in the low areas where it pools. Put clear glaze over the whole thing. The clear glaze will also make it more contrasty between the light and dark areas.

This Moai mug has a very watered-down black glaze over the whole thing. (You have to hold it so the color pools in the lower areas as you brush it on) It's a glossy black glaze, but it's so watered-down when it's fired it's a matte finish.

The same thing was done to this bowl. There are more layers applied to the bowl part than the Moais and rocks, and the bowl has clear glaze over it so it is glossy, and the Moais are matte.