Step 1
Step 2
Casting The Mold
With Liquid Clay Slip
Draining excess clay
slip from the mold
Step 3
Step 4
The plaster walls of the mold absorb water
from the clay slip, producing the clay shell, or greenware
Cleaning away the seam lines from the greenware.
Step 5
Step 6
Placing the cleaned
greenware in the kiln for the bisque firing.
After the greenware
has been fired in the kiln, it is a piece of hard
bisque.
Step 7
Step 8
Applying the first coat
of glaze to your bisque piece.
Completely painted with a Gloss Glaze on the inside and a Crystaltone Glaze on the outside, and inner neck, ready for final glaze firing.
Step 9
Step 10
The finished ceramic vase after glaze firing. The ceramic colours have undergone a chemical change in the kiln and are now hard and lustrous.
The beautiful result!
Gift-shop quality at a fraction of the cost!