The results are in and there was a lot to love about February's glaze. Just because the month is over doesn't mean I'm putting this glaze on a shelf. I plan to continue playing with this glaze. So far it's endlessly interesting with different oxides and stains! Below are my notes about this glaze, my favorite result, and details for joining Glaze Group to participate in the next monthly project.

This is my favorite glaze result from the handful of colorant variations I ran. I used February's base glaze recipe (found here) and added 3% mason stain #6376. Stain ordering tip: ¼ pound is enough for over 1,000 grams of glaze.

I plan to increase the colorant amount by another 2% and fire another pot for comparison. I'd like to create a brighter, more saturated blue that will still play nice with all of the pastels in my line up. The current result is beautiful but a little too similar to my Mint glaze to add it into my collection as is.

The darker colors I ran in my tests (cobalt and a cobalt plus copper version) best showed off the beautiful Phase Separation-- that feathering appearance in the glaze. If you're looking to make that quality stand out I suggest experimenting with the amount of colorant in your glaze. Increase by 1% each test and see which result you like best. 

This glaze also has the most visual variety (again it's that lovely Phase Separation) where it's thicker. The bottom interior of my bowl and the rim demonstrate this. In the future I'm curious about layering two different colors with this same base glaze to see what sort of interesting effects will happen.

To get the details for March’s glaze project as well as future monthly formulas and result recaps join Glaze Group below (it’s totally free) and then join the Glaze Group Facebook Group via the email you’ll receive. I’m excited to learn with you as we expand our studio’s glaze repetoire!

Lindsay