Recipes: Building Blocks
Three ceramic artists share the versatile slip and glaze recipes they use to achieve the dimensional surfaces that make their … Read More
Mid Range Glaze Recipes
Mid range firing is an increasingly popular firing range in ceramics. Mid range is usually considered between cone 4 and cone 7, but most often you’ll find people firing to cone 6 so we will use that term interchangeably with mid range. If you’re looking for mid-range pottery glaze recipes, you’ve hit the jackpot. In these archives, you’ll find a plethora of mid-range pottery glaze recipes including loads of ever-popular cone 6 glaze recipes. In addition to all the pottery glaze recipes, you’ll see technical articles on mid-range firing.
And don’t forget to download your free copy of 15 Tried and True Cone 6 Glaze Recipes: Recipe Cards for our Favorite Mid-Range Pottery Glazes, an assortment of mid range pottery glaze recipes in a convenient recipe-card format, perfect for printing and taking to the pottery studio.
Whether you are just getting started with mixing your own glazes, or you’ve been doing it for years, you’ll find plenty to keep you interested and excited here. Looking for special effect glazes? Try John Britt’s snowflake crackle glaze recipe? Or maybe you are just looking for reliable cone 6 oxidation glaze recipes. We even have information for high-fire potters who would like to lower their firing temperature (not to mention their bills!) and convert their high-fire glazes to cone 6 glazes.
Getting your pottery glazes to turn out right takes experimentation and practice. Sometimes it is frustrating. And helpful advice from pottery glaze experts like the ones frequently featured here is crucial. You can follow a recipe to a T and it could end up looking completely different from the picture. There are just so many variables involved. You’ll gain insights into key glaze materials like frits, feldspars, and colorants, stains and more. After perusing these pages, you will be ready to develop a personal palette for your ceramic work that you can call your own.
15 Tried & True Cone 6 Glaze Recipes
Get recipes and learn about testing procedures for mid-range glazes when you download this freebie, 15 Tried & True Cone 6 Glaze Recipes.
Recipes: Mid-Range Glazes
Two artists share how they achieve depth in their sculptural and functional surfaces at cone 6. … Read More
Recipes: Cone 6–11 Recipes
Three potters in vastly different areas of the world share recipes that, in part, help to make their ceramic surfaces … Read More
Recipes: Mid Range to High Fire
Calandra Beller Diesel, Mark Cortright, and Autumn Higgins share recipes for the underglazes and glazes they use in their work. … Read More
Techno File: Rare Earths at Cone 6
There are a variety of rare earth metals—28 of them in the lanthanides and actinides, to be exact—and many are … Read More
Recipes: Mid-Range and Cone 3 Recipes
Katriona Drijber and Ben Jordan, who both work with red clay, share recipes for a clay body that fires to … Read More
Techno File: Gemstones and Glazes
Typically, a gemstone family possesses a base formula—just as a glaze has a base formula. The base formula is clear … Read More
Techno File: Visual Arts Shino
Traditionally, shino-glazed works are fired in reduction kilns—as a reducing atmosphere must be created for iron to be drawn into … Read More
Recipes: Emerging Artist Recipes
Naomi Clement, Stephanie Galli, and Travis Winters share their clay, casting slip, and glaze recipes. … Read More
