we have a lot of really cool piss square here in the art room that's all ready to be glazed beautiful spools and beautiful spoons the first thing you want to think about is the color you want to use maybe you like to use a bright vivid orange or leaf green or the two complementary colors together on this spoon I want you to notice the way that the peacock green has settled into the texture it's just beautiful and shows the texture pattern really well that peacock green is paired with a really nice warm amber brown and those two colors look just great together here's an example of something not to do this student painted a peacock green and then a chrome green and I think they came back the next day and did the chrome green and probably thought it was the same color because green is sort of odd it is going to come out pink or red looking as a liquid once it's fired it actually turns the color that it is so make sure that you check the label on the glaze jars really carefully to see which color of glaze you have this one is gingerbread which is a warm brown color some of the glaze jars here in my classroom might say a name on top it might be written just double check that that's the same as what it says on the label because sometimes the lids don't get put back on the right jar once you've picked your colors then you want to shake your glaze up really well that's so important now notice I'm holding the lid to the jar while I shake sometimes the lids aren't put on real tightly and what happens is the lid goes flying and so does all of the glaze and we have a huge glaze explosion in the art room that's not much fun to clean up you're gonna need to paint three coats now I've already started painting this nice little bowl notice I'm putting the glaze well out in front of me where it won't get knocked off the table and spill it all over the floor your first coat will be absorbed by this bisque we're really quickly use your brush and make sure you push the glaze well down into any little nooks and crannies that there might be on your piece because otherwise once it's fired you will have the cracks showing bright white and it won't look very nice so you want to really get that glaze down in there once your first coat has dried then you're ready to apply the second coat you can see that it's dry it's a little lighter looking and the second coat you want to kind of Pat in don't over brush it just kind of Pat it on again working it into any nooks and crannies on your piece all right one place you want to be sure not to put any glaze is right on the bottom where it sits on the table if there's glaze on the bottom when it's in the kiln the glaze as it heats up and starts to melt will be syrupy thick and it will glue down to the glaze shelf and I'll have to whack it off with a hammer and believe me you don't want that to happen to your piece it'll shatter it into a bunch of pieces so when you're all done glazing your piece take a sponge and just wipe any stray bits of glaze that might be on the bottom all right but I'm not finished glazing after I've done in a coat for the background and that's all lazed on then you want to decide what kind of decoration you might want to add or details you might want to add choose the best brush for the job so I've been using a nice big fat brush to paint the background color for any detail you want to add choose a smaller detail brush now take a look at this little animal head the nose is black and the amber color is lighter than that do your light colors first then add your dark detail because the dark will cover up the black that excuse me the dark black will cover up the amber but the opposite isn't true I wouldn't be able to cover up any black stray marks with the amber color so work from light to dark all right have fun glazing today