Glazing

 

Today Elaine showed us how to glaze our pots that came out of the kiln earlier.

 

 

 Elain demonstarted to us how to do this process. You have to hold the piece into the glaze for 6 seconds, and then shake off the ecess.

 This is one of my pieces that I glazed.

Elaine and Kieren then filled the kiln which is outside and run by gas. This has to reach about 1000 degess and has to soak at 1000 degress for about 10 minutes.

 This is the Kiln when it was opened.

Saw dust is used to give the smoky effect. The objects are taken out of the kiln and are placed in metal bins on a layer of saw dust.

We let this bin closed for about a half hour to a hour and then this is what it looks like when you open it. You then place them into water to cool of. You have to be careful though with hollow objects as there is a poctect of air which and make the object explode if its to hot.