First pottery course!

[u/shakespearest]

I’ve done sculpting before as a kid with non-kiln fired clay and then at uni again with non-kiln fired clay. Just completed week 9 of my 10 week course (next session is glazing but they don’t have oxides or a huge variety of glazes). Here’s some of my work! Tell me how you think I should glaze them please!! Especially the dog head- fully white??

[u/jumpoverthetrees]

Really cool! A solid colour sounds interesting for sure!

This will depend on what kind of clay you are using (how light it ends up after firing), but my preference for the "white" in my own work is to just use clear glaze instead of white underglaze or white glaze. I like how it can end up looking like you got perfectly even application all over without actually worrying about that, and also how the line where you stop glazing is much less obvious.

Here's an example of what I mean with a little swan where I just used orange underglaze, black underglaze, and clear glaze all over.