Wednesday, April 20, 2011

New plates: all the gory glazing details!

Or: Everything you wanted to know about glazing plates but were afraid to ask.

First, I painted iron oxide on the rims and backs...

Then, I painted dots with white and jade glaze and then waxed over them. (Uh oh, the sun's going down...)

I also painted wax dots on the back (you'll see why very soon!) I thought the waxing and dot-painting would take about an hour... It was more like four.

I dipped the entire plate in green glaze. The glaze doesn't adhere to the areas I'd waxed (the rim and the bottom).

Finished! All four dinner plates turned out well: no cracking or other problems.

Pretty nifty! They're about 10 inches in diameter.

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