Raku Glazes

Amaco calls it a deep blue that develops an atmospheric, varied surface after a proper raku firing, and atmospheric is the right word. It does not come out as one blue. It comes out as weather.

The brightest thing on this shelf. A blue-green that holds its color through the smoke rather than going moody, which makes it the one people reach for when they want the piece to read as color rather than as atmosphere.

Copper reds over a surface that is meant to break. The crackle is not something in the glaze, it is a network of fault lines opened by the cold air, and the smoke from the can settles into every one of them as soot.

The one that rewards paying attention to your reduction. In light reduction it is an intense dark cobalt. Applied thicker, those blues give way to dark reddish purple. Slightly heavier reduction lightens it and brings hints of silver metallic, and very strong direct reduction pushes it to brassy metallic surfaces.

A muted purple that carries metallic movement wherever the reduction ran hardest. Amaco recommends two or three coats to get the color on their sample.

A dry metallic gray that reads like silver somebody forgot to polish. It leans on the reduction harder than anything else we stock, because the metal look is the metal, pulled back out of the oxide by a fire with no air left.

Black Metallic on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Copper Metallic on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Copper Penny on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Crackle White on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Oil Slick on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Peacock on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Algae Bloom on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Andromeda on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Aqua on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Armadillo on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Blue Topaz on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Cassiopeia on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Clear on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Cobalt Blue on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Cosmic Copper on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Deep Space on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Emerald on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Galaxy on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Lapis on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Lime on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Mars on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Metallic Flash on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Nebula on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Neptune on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Oxblood on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Raku Orange on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Raku Red on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Starry Night on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Sunspot on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Turquoise on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

White on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Yellow on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

We do not stock Amethyst anymore. Our own notes record it as problematic, and it came off the shelf.

We do not stock Orchid Pink anymore. Our own notes record it as problematic, and it came off the shelf.

Alligator on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Beetle Juice on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Blue Dolphin on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Copper Ridge on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Midnight Luster on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Purple Passion on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Awabi Shell on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

BEGS (White Crackle) on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Copper on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Dark Red on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Dynasty Blue on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Kingin Gold Silver on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Shinju on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.

Tutti Frutti on our shelf, fired as raku. What the reduction can is packed with changes this more than anything you brush, so the same glaze gives a different pot every firing.