3 Ways to Finish the Bisque Fired Shoes with Iron Oxide and Glazes!

This video demonstrates 3 methods of the finishing of the bisque fired stoneware shoes with oxides, underglazes, and cone 6 glazes. The three techniques I demonstrate are:
1) Using iron oxide on bisque, and fire to cone 6
2) Underglazes on bisque shoe, then bisque fire, then dip in iron oxide, and fired to cone 6
3) Iron oxide on bisque, then bisque fired again, then application of cone 6 glazes and fired to cone 6

This video is part of the series I have made showing my students how to create a sculptural clay shoe. We will be using soft slabs and coils to create these dynamic sculptures. Here are the videos in that series:

Video 1 in series: Create the Patterns for the Shoes    • Creating a Shoe Pattern for Making a ...  
Video 2 in series: Assembling the Clay Shoe from Patterns    • Assembling the Sculptural Shoes in Cl...  
Video 3 in series: Cleaning and refining the leatherhard shoe    • Making a Sculptural SHOE in Clay   Ph...  
Video 4 in series: Detailing and Finishing the shoes    • Finishing the Sculptural SHOE in Clay...  
Video 5 in series: 3 ways to finish the shoes using oxides and glazes    • Видео  


I have a playlist of all the videos I will be using for this project located here:

   • Sculptural Clay Shoes- Ceramics I  

The stoneware in the video is Standard 153, cone 6, and we are using Coyote Glazes, and Amaco underglazes

If you would like to order one of the handmade tools we use for the toe portion, you can find them on my Etsy shop here: https://www.etsy.com/KaransPotsAndGla...


Each section is assembled with scoring, slipping, and blending on the interior. If a tongue is used, that is often stretched a bit wider, and then thinned, and inserted from behind.

For the great tools I used in the video (including the mudtools shedders, ribs, and kemper mini ribbon tools) check out this link to a live Googledoc I continually update with lots of my favorite tools on Amazon using my associate links! (also some non-amazon suggestions on here!)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X...

I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 29 years, the past 20 + have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; https://www.etsy.com/shop/KaransPotsA...

I started my Youtube channel a few years ago, to make videos to help my students if they are absent and miss a demo, or if they would like to explore more advanced techniques independently. I have been amazed to reach such a wider audience than my own students!

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