In this video, I'm going to show you how to splatter glaze a bowl a mug, and a plate.
Hi, Marie here back with another decorating video for you.
This time I'll show you how to splatter a bowl a mug and a plate with underglaze.
This easy pottery glazing technique is another cool way to decorate your pottery.
Splattering gives your pottery a unique abstract look that's so much fun to do. I'll test out a few
brushes to see what patterns they create first before applying them to my pottery. All the
supplies used in this video are listed for you in the show notes below. Let's splatter some pottery.
Because of the nature of this splatter technique, you'll need plastic to cover
the area you're working in. Before I splatter my pottery I'm going to test out some brushes
and make sure I have the right thickness of my underglaze. I'll be using speedball black and
speedball red to test out my splatter pattern and the consistency of my underglaze. I have one of my
wear boards covered with plastic. If you're not familiar with wear boards I have a video on how
to make these and the ways that you can use them. I left a link for you in the description below.
As you can see the speedball underglaze is too thick for splattering. For this demonstration,
I have three tablespoons of underglaze
and I'll add one tablespoon of distilled water or eight seconds squeeze from my spray pump bottle.
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You may have to use a little more or less water that's why testing is best before you splatter.
I found this one-inch mop brush holds the underglaze
really well and produces a nice splatter pattern.
Load up your brush.
See how it holds the underglaze.
You want to hold your brush about three to six inches away from your piece and flick your brush.
That's a nice pattern. That looks good. Now let's splatter some pottery.
Before you glaze you always want to wipe your biscuit off with a clean damp sponge
this is a step you never want to skip.
Oh I like that. That's better. Cool.
Now you can add more if you like or just leave it.
I like it like that. I'm going to leave it. Now let's do a bowl.
That looks good. Okay
leave it there. Now it's time for the red.
Ah, that's it. I like that.
Cool
Okay
One more. Great. Let's do the mug.
Test it out. That looks good.
Cool.
Do a little or a lot. Stop whenever you want.
That's the cool part about decorating your pottery.
You can make it any way you want. Test it out first.
Can see that?
Get inside a bit if I can.
Let it dry and then we'll put some clear glaze on.
Now that the splatter effect underglaze is dry it's time to put some clear glaze on. I'm using
Amaco Sahara liquid glaze I'm using the medium size hack brush.
I want to keep this effect on the foot so I'm going to put some wax on wax resist.
So if I get any glaze on the foot I can wipe it off but I'll still have the pattern on the foot.
Now let it dry before I put the clear glaze on.
Now I'll let that dry and put one more coat of clear on before I put it in the kiln.
Once my wax resist is dry time to put a coat of clear on my bowl.
Now that I have two coats of clear glaze on all three of my pieces I'll let it dry
then into my Skutt kiln it goes for a final fire at cone five. This bowl turned out really good.
and the mug splatter pattern is awesome also.
And the plate turned out great.
I think this makes a very nice set.
You can create some cool splatter patterns too. If you want to learn about more ways to glaze
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Now head on over to my How to Sponge glaze video or this Underglaze trace and transfer technique.
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