The Potter's Palette: A Practical Guide to Creating Over 700 Illustrated Glaze and Slip Colors

Provides instructions for mixing, applying, and firing more than 700 glaze colors suited for both earthenware and stoneware clays, and includes health and safety tips

The serious potter will find a multitude of great glaze recipes in this practical reference, which presents color samples of more than 700 individual glazes for both earthenware and stoneware clays. Christine Constant and Steve Ogden briefly cover the basics--mixing, applying, firing, health and safety concerns--then concentrate, for the bulk of the guide, on the results that can be achieved by adding various oxides (copper oxide, cobalt oxide, red iron oxide, etc.), glaze stains, and opacifiers to a group of base glazes to produce a tremendous range of color and surface qualities. Each result is clearly shown in a photograph of the sample color chip.