How to Mix Pottery Glazes and How I Glaze Pots - Narrated Version
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- This week's video shows how I mix my glazes, together with some examples of how I dunk certain shapes, together with all manner of other little topics and tips along the way.
Here's the link to my online shop,
www.floriangadsby.com/shop (note, it'll be password protected until the moment it goes live, April 25 - 7:00pm BST).
And the link to my exhibition at Make, Hauser & Wirth,
www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wi...
0:00 - Introduction
0:20 - Ventilation
0:39 - Mask
0:56 - Weighing out raw materials
5:23 - Adding extra water
6:26 - Mixing glaze with blunger, (mixer)
8:18 - Sieving glaze
11:30 - Clean up
11:52 - Preparing wax
12:23 - Waxing cup
13:15 - Glazing cup
14:04 - Cleaning up glaze
14:53 - Waxing teapot
15:55 - Dabbing water on teapots to help glazing
16:10 - Glazing teapot
17:12 - Glazing bowl
19:10 - Talking shop (bonus)
Thanks as always for watching!
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These videos are like a mini documentary. I think the edit of the video and over dubbing the narration is the strength of production. Having an English accent lends to the 'officialness' of it all.
I like the pottery produced, but I'm at a loss as to the rapid success of sales other than whetting the appetite of anticipation with previews of quality and attention to detail these videos showcase.
This man really does use "A Rubber Kidney" for basically anything
I live for the rubber kidney.
They’re just amazing
@@floriangadsby I have a rubber kidney in my body
@@sidstone8845 for some reason this was so funny!😂
My pottery teacher told me before the first lesson: “ Everything in this room can and will kill you if you don’t treat it properly. “
I was sold.
Hey Florian just wanted to say as someone just starting a little pottery business you are an inspiration to me and what I wish to achieve someday. Keep up the great work- Trevor from Vermont Pots
Awesome video. I do all the mixing in our community studio and, of course, in my own studio. I smiled when you mentioned being interrupted during measuring chemicals. I always mix glazes on days when no one is in the studio. Also, I do not wax the bottoms of pots with a nice foot. I take a knife and scrape the bottom of the foot, then sponge the glaze off. This way I get a very nice glaze edge that is very close to the bottom of the pot and the glaze edge has a slight bevel. My glazes do not run. Some day I hope to have one of your pots in my collection (along with everyone else).
Finally was able to get some of your beautiful pieces and I could not be more excited. So overjoyed to spend a lifetime having more moments and memories with the little things in play. That quiet 6am cup of coffee, or that cup of tea with friends at night. Thank you so much!
*patiently waiting for 7pm BST from America* your pottery is absolutely stunning.
Haha, soon! It goes live in 1 hour 12 minutes at the time of writing this reply! And thank you too of course.
Love the freedom that you give yourself in the making of
Man, I wish I had the formula for that glaze. I'd love to mix it up, then play with it for my pots. Such a unifying and subtly complex look to it. Just stunning.
haha I spat my tea when you said about being distracted and forgetting which white powder ingredient you were on! I am glad its not just me!
Everything is sold out maybe 25 minutes after 7pm BST. Sad for me but exceedingly happy for you! Everything looked gorgeous.
Thank you! 6 minutes 20 seconds to be exact, it's quite surreal! People are so incredibly fast.
As someone who is excited to get into ceramics I’ve already learned a lot! Thank you for your videos!!
You absolutely deserve the money that you're making off of this you give so much valuable information I have learned quite a bit from you
Hi thanks! I am a messy potter, and started watching your videos, learned alot!! You work so nice and clean and give good tips and insights...
You don’t get enough recognition for your content. Your videos are so entertaining and have helped me so much with even the most simple forms. Your work helps me revise and re envision a lot of my work. Thank you so much for the videos !
I like the wood batt to cover the dry materials. To keep the dust down and prevent hard pack at the bottom of the bucket during the process, I quickly mix each ingredient into the water with a wisk, as I go. This really makes the final mixing much easier. Thanks for all you videos and posts Florian - been following for a long time.
I love how everything you do is precise and frugal. I could tell by your exact production pottery that you would be. Potters who do more random items tend to be messier. The woman I sold my old home to was a potter. She had to have the sewer line replaced. She clogged it with clay. My old neighbors filled me in on how she destroyed the home I designed and meticulous maintained.
I love your videos. They’re so methodical and satisfying. You show different ways of doing pottery which is really cool to see. You are also really easy to listen to and I feel like I’m actually learning stuff.
Your videos are so pedagogical and calm, amazing to watch! Thank you so much for sharing!
pleased to hear us supporting you helps. You give so much to us all.
The long gloves vets use are very handy for putting your arm in the bucket. Thank you for this great video 😁
Thank you for sharing your process Florian. As always, a very informative video. I always enjoy watching your videos because I'm as fastidious as you are in the studio as well as in my home. It's nice to see a well organized, clean studio environment. It absolutely drives me crazy when I watch other potters not paying attention to detail. It really sets apart the professionals from the "others"
OMG ! You have the best ceramics channel in all of YT. Wonderfull. 😍
Thank you very much!
The result of all your work is stunning. Thank you for sharing the considerations that lead up to this point.
dude your videos are amazing I feel like I should say thank you after watching each one of them. hope you have a good year.
Always pleased to watch your new videos. 😊 Amazing as always.
Such a calm, wonderful voice
Wow, Here I am a day later and the shop is completely sold out. Madness.
Congratulations on the success Florian!
Cheers Greg! It was total mayhem, I honestly can't believe it sells out as fast as it does.
You are a lucky potter to have an online shop that is 100% sold out!!!!
and a lucky youtuber to have a highly-valuable handcrafted product to sell with such excellent marketing :D
first time watching one of your videos... you are so talented man not only with what you are making but how your videos turns out... keep up the great work 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Beautiful! Perfectly made video. Answered all my questions
Wonderful. Thank you so much for your insights. True what you say about the glaze it can make a piece or destroy it.
The pieces are wonderful. Congratulations
This channel is like Baumgartner restoration but for pottery, I can see it blowing up like it soon too
I have a long way before I get to his level! I love his videos, so thank you for the kind compliment 🙌🏼
Thank you for your sharing your knowledge every week, I wait for your videos now 😊
Thanks for watching! So pleased to hear that.
Ok, Just a note. Pre blend all the dry materials first, that will disperse the materials and allow them to slake easier and cut down on lumps, especially if you have bentonite in your glazes. Add the dry mix to another bucket with water in it and let it slake. This keeps the dry mix from clumping in the corners of the bucket. The theory is like mixing plaster. Do you mix water into plaster or put dry plaster into water? If you are adding red iron oxide it is good to pre blend it separately in a kitchen blender to disperse the iron so there is no spotting. If you do it my way you will not have to break up the clumps of dry material with your hand. 6.07
All good points. Thank you! I don't really have to break up clumps with my hands, really I just flip the stuck bit at the bottom and then sit my mixer on top of it and blend it all up after that. That being said, there are batches where I don't have to do that and I just stick the blender in straight away and let it do it's job. I don't mind spotting with iron either, and thankfully as everything is sieved it barely ever happens anyhow.
There are instances where, if I'm mixing glaze in advance, I will use more water and give them more time to slake down, but what was filmed was from a session where I needed to use the glaze the same day. So I just rushed it all through and thankfully the end result was totally fine. I guess what works better for some glazes might not be absolutely necessary for all of them. I could have definitely put more water in at the start though, that's for sure.
Thanks for watching Donn and I appreciate the suggestions.
@@floriangadsby I am envious of that blender.
It's beefy - I never really thought I'd get one but pretty much all the potteries I've worked in over the years have used them so I figured there's a reason for that and they really do just smash the materials.
This was brilliant. Exactly what I was looking for. Cheers.
Missed out on a mug this time!! Won't give up though. Glad to see everything selling out so quickly
I think your pottery is amazing! This turquoise color is my favorite color!!😊
You can really see the influence of your experience in japan with the ladel/dipper you use in measuring raw materials.
I need to find more ladles, I hope I can find a source of them in the UK. I've already broken one!
I've never done any pottery that wasn't in elementary school but I absolutely love your content! Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much Michael, appreciate you taking the time to watch.
I love to see you using your bowls for wax and cups for tools, it just makes sense, why buy containers like cups and bowls if your profession is literally making them
that glaze is beautiful. I love that color
Sou apaixonada por seu trabalho.
Me inspiro em você!
Always look forward to your videos.🥰
Likewise
I find i have enjoyed, and learned a lot from your videos. Thank you very much for sharing
I'm so pleased to hear that, thanks for taking the time to watch, it really does mean such a lot.
Beautiful craftsmanship. I always wonder if the tongs leave marks in the glaze or if you should smooth them out after the glaze dries a bit.
i love your videos :) your voice is realy soothing
Great video. Thank you.
So far you are my favorite potter 👍💫💕
Awesome narrative 💗
Thank you Anna!
Great job 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
very informative video. I started watching clay videos like a month or two ago and I have wondered how the glazing is made.
so nice video, thanks .
When he thanked us.... I subscribed
9:45 Your welcome, thank your too, watching your videos really helps me relax
Glad you like them! And thanks for taking the time to watch, it means a lot.
I loved your video, could you tell me where to get the ceramic glaze recipe?
Mmm... forbidden tomato soup.
Honestly best asmr too
You explain everything nice and slow I like that. I would like to learn how to be a potter you have inspiration to me. Thanks. But I’m not ready to be a potter.
Have you used different colors for glaze? I think a pinkish or a light blue with the similar texture to your current glaze would be really neat to see how that would turn out. But hey, whichever color you choose to use on your pottery it's always gonna come out breathtaking!
i love your work😍 hope i can create such a brand
Amazing 👏
This guy is fantastic
wow sold out in 6 minutes, such goals
Do you suggest any materials to learn more about glazing/mixing your own glazes?
👏Just perfect 👌
Hi, I'm learning pottery and I wonder how did you manage to make food safe glazes? The ones I know are not suitable for food and I see you make cups, so I am wondering. Thanks!
Toothpicks can be a great way to keep a small hole free of glaze, and they fire out in the kiln.
Thank you!!!
great video! thank you for sharing. I was wondering, how do the rims get a darker colour with the same glaze?
Hey, thank you! The glaze on the rims moves, and flows down the forms, revealing the clay underneath which is high in iron and often gives the glaze a deeper colour, although it's actually thinner. But I don't have to do anything extra, it's just how the glaze reacts when fired like this.
It is called “breaking”.
Does the sieve act in a similar way that a sifter does to flour - - makes it more "fine"?
What you said about saving as much as possible money wise for the shop by making sure you don’t waste materials could easily be converted as sustainably working. Working this way means you can enjoy your craft while having a good effect on the planet, making sure that these resources can go back to the land when the lifetime of the piece is over. I wondered where you got your resources from and how sustainably they are farmed and how harsh the chemicals are in your mixes .
beautiful once
No thank you! Just a question if I may...do you leave the lid on when bisque fire? the reason I ask is when I have used wax on vessel rim and lid and then fired them both together they have stuck together so I am reluctant to use wax resists again can you please make the wax process clearer please
Any possibility of some information on that bucket mixer. I am not finding anything like it here in the USA. I really appreciate your videos
Frank
I bought mine from Scarva Pottery Suppliers and it's called a Gladstone five gallon mixer. I'm not sure on their availability outside of the UK but I hope that helps!
@@floriangadsby thank you. I contacted the manufacturer. Our power is slightly different here. Thank you so much for the information.
Thank you so much for the detailed information. Do you wear a mask during the Cleaning Up Glaze section at 14:04?
Sometimes… usually the glazed surfaces seem quite damp, so the glaze that comes off doesn’t feel like it immediately fills the air like it might when poured out from a dry sack. That being said, if it does feel particularly powdery and very dry I will put a mask on.
While watching this I caught myself holding my breath every time you were working with the raw glaze powder lol, gotta protect those lungs I guess 🤷
Depends on what's in it. Most of "pottery" is as dangerous as sand.
Some glazes are based on heavy metals like lead (no fun stuff) but nowadays you can rarely even buy these in raw form.
Pre-melted and milled into a "base glaze" it's just another form of sand to handle.
@@gazz3867 such fine sand though, no? it isn't just the materials but the size of the particles, which can stay suspended in the air for some time after mixing. i feel like it's common knowledge that inhaling dry glaze particles (and clay particles as well) can be incredibly hazardous over time w/o PPE...
@@dongo3042 Technically true... but. Historically quartz (and other) dust particles had been an issue in the industry but you'd have to work in a heavy dust cloud 7 days a week. In Germany these health issues have been extinct for decades. Even in a workshop the size of yours, simple ventilation will make short work of it. In one particularly dusty area we are also using a tiny bit of fine water mist (from an oil burner nozzle) as a dust-be-gone.
If you work with especially toxic materials PPE can still be an excellent idea. I'm just saying that in this day and age pottery-typical dust issues are about as common as rhinoceros attacks. =)
@@gazz3867 very interesting!!! thanks for the info. yeah, i know things like silicosis are very rare these days/not really seen outside of a factory type setting... i try to be careful because i have asthma, but i know it’s likely overkill ha.
@@dongo3042 Silicosis is a problem for equestrians, especially teachers working in indoor arenas.
I love it
Hi I'm Sandra from India (kochi) I loves see your videos and I like your voice ♥
Sponging down and cleaning buckets and different containers thoroughly has more benefits than just saving money since these glazes are not solutions they are suspensions they settle out at different rates of speed so what you get well sipping and getting lower and lower in the bucket is a set of chemicals that are completely different from the top first amount that you scoop out. You get much more consistent glazes if you use every single bit of the recipe. You get quite a bit left over if you just have even a thin coat left in a bucket and that can be a crucial amount of their chemical that will affect the overall performance of a glaze. I know it sounds Persnickety but it's absolutely true
You could do with some bigger scoops and a big rubber spatula with a handle. Do you put in your clay first? That prevents the feldspar from sinking to the bottom.
I definitely could! And I'll try sticking the clay in first next time around, thanks for the tips Linda, and thanks for watching too!
About mixing too much water and scooping it off when settled. You will remove the soluble materials, I think. If you use neph sye and soda feldspar you'll lose some sodium.
Thank you for your interesting videos.
Hi, if I put a non food safe glaze then a food safe clear glaze on top on the glaze does it still become non food safe?
i like florian.
What type of glaze do you use? Is it a shino? Or does it fall into a certain category
- A rod with a little hook or plate at the end could do that premixing much easier and cleaner.
- Or you keep enough water in the measurement bucket to wash your arm into the bucket with.
- The more you bash a wooden handle with a metal weight on the end onto a thin rim, the sooner it breaks.
I can't praise simple wooden 50¢ paddles enough! Drummers drum with the cheapest sticks possible because they'll break weekly anyway.
All the best :)
Are your dry ingredients 325 mesh powder?
I may have just missed it in the video but what is the purpose of sieving the glaze mixture? Does it incorporate the different ingredients together in a way that mixing doesn't? It didn't seem the case that you were removing anything.
It ensures that there aren’t any lumps in the glaze.
I'm an amateur chemist I have many hydrometers in a nice chest stored away and I never use them either I go simply by the way it feels when I stir it and occasionally if I'm not certain I will dip a finger as well I have never ever measured with a hydrometer. I'm not saying that I look down on someone that would use one I just have never found the need since day one. I was mixing my own glazes from the first or second month of taking a pottery again. I have never really had any trouble doing it this way
Hi I'm from Indonesia, 20 years old, and I want to learn about your work, what clay do you use and what mixes it is
Yoo Florian, quick question, have you ever dropped an entire ware board? It would be tragic, but it has happened, right?
What are the songs in your play list?
I feel like it would be much easier to store the materials in those big dog food containers with the spinning lids to keep it air tight if needed. You could get one for every ingredient. You could put more than one bag of the same ingredient in there too. Or if air tight is bad containers without airtight lids could work
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Wow man just now I saw your Instagram 🤩 and saved some some awesome photos
Cheers! So glad you liked it, it's a whole other world from UA-cam but generally it's where I post many more pictures and videos of the processes behind the pots.
@@floriangadsby I have a lot interest in pottery but the kiln and clay is not available by the way where you sell these and in country u sell can tell and all the best
عمل جميل و إحترافي .
How much water did you use for this batch?
Which raw material you use?
What is the wax made of?.