Want bright orange? Use a stain in your own base transparent recipe.


Wednesday 10th April 2019

Orange is a very difficult color in ceramics. Inclusion insight-live.com/glossary/182">stains are the only reliable method, they universally used in industry. But you could ignore that and try a bunch of recipes online. When they are presented on flashy web pages they can look tantalizing. But beware! Are the exotic materials you need to buy worth it. Will it actually fire orange? Will it craze or run or blister or leach or cutlery mark or crawl or settle like a rock in the bucket? It is much better to put an orange encapsulated stain into a transparent glaze you already know works on your clay. Then just experiment with percentage to get the color you want. Or, how about trying a premixed orange at low fire? Ware can be amazingly functional at low temperatures (e.g. cone 03-02) and bright colours labelled for cone 06 mostly work fine in that range.

Pages that reference this post in the Digitalfire Reference Library:

Trafficking in Glaze Recipes, Metal leaching from ceramic glazes: Lab report example, Encapsulated Stain


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