“This book made me fall in love with glaze all over again.” —Ben Carter, author of Mastering the Potter’s Wheel Whether you look forward to glazing your work or are guilty of saying “I hate glazing!” Amazing Glaze is for you. Join author and Odyssey Clayworks founder Gabriel Kline on a journey that makes glazing less intimidating and
“This book made me fall in love with glaze all over again.”
—Ben Carter, author of Mastering the Potter’s Wheel
Whether you look forward to glazing your work or are guilty of saying “I hate glazing!” Amazing Glaze is for you. Join author and Odyssey Clayworks founder Gabriel Kline on a journey that makes glazing less intimidating and more fun. Start in the “glaze kitchen” where you’ll set yourself up for success, then move on to learning the tools and techniques for getting your glaze right every time. Along the way, Gabriel shares dozens of tried-and-true recipes and combinations for both mid-range and high-fire glazes.
The recipes and foundational techniques of Amazing Glaze are just the beginning. Learn about layering with slip and underglaze, work with resists, and combine techniques to take your glazing above and beyond. Whether you’re after crystalline effects, an elusive red, or a crash-course in applying decals it’s all here. A variety of artist features and stunning gallery work from today’s top artists will leave you inspired and ready to get glazing.
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This book will transform your love/hate relationship with glazing! Amazing Glaze is an amazingly beautiful book both in the content and way it was written as well as the way it was photographed. I had the benefit of taking a glazing class with the author. The class transformed my love/hate relationship with glazing to one of love/joy! Readers can now benefit from Gabrielâs knowledge because itâs like taking the class with him. While I thought my years of study and glaze testing were deep, I had never heard of specific gravity before and had relied on older…
Wonderful book focusing on all aspects of glazing This book encourages and teaches. I hate glazing – it’s where all your hard work can end up just “not there”….but this book offers lessons on nearly every aspect of glazing – from reading the recipe, to adjusting thickness and application. Recipes are included for a wide range of firing with photographs of the results. I am encouraged after reading this – not so sure I’m eager to glaze, but at least I’ll be better prepared. Highly recommended.
Surpasses expectations! Written for EVERYONE! This book is a gorgeous breath of fresh air from other ceramics books. Besides being visually STUNNING (the cover is even cooler in real life), the text is written in a unique and way that is both academic and rigorous while breaking down terms and ideas for the layman in a far less formal manner that makes the reader feel like a peer, an equal, instead of an insubordinate who is lucky to just witness someone’s knowledge. Gabriel Kline is more than a potter- dude’s a writer, and I cannot think…