Post #756920 by danlovestikis on Thu, Jan 7, 2016 9:20 AM

Glazing for Wish List #6 has begun with a visit from kingstiedye aka Bullet. It's really easy to glaze when I can ask questions and preferences.

Here's his mug before we started. The staff will be painted and glued into place after the mug fires.

He went with a buff surface and a glossy interior. I started with cover coat in black in this squeeze bottle.

We wanted to have black in the flat surface carved detail. When you put on glaze that you want to rub off it doesn't take much. I used the squeeze bottle to just add a little to the outside.

Here's what it looked like and

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here's what kingstiedye aka Bullet looks like!

I began to rub the outside with a wet cloth (not a paper towel) and

I also used a wet brush.

All done. Now it will dry and wait to be fired.

Firing will make the black darker.

One down many more to go. Cheers, Wendy