Saturated color, reliability and versatility make Velvets as popular with professionals as they are with children. Velvets fire colorfast as a Cone 05/06 underglaze or fired to Cone 6. Some colors remain colorfast up to Cone 10. Some colors remain colorfast even up to Cone 10.
Try two finishing options: If unglazed, these colors have the rich textural look of velvet; if coated with AMACO transparent mat or Clear Gloss they intensify in color. Can be easily applied to wet clay, greenware or to 04 bisque (1971F / 1077C).
-Saturated color
-Apply to unfired clay or bisque
-Color
-Can be used with or without glaze -Food safe with the proper glaze.
-Cone 05 to 10
-Sprayable
The Velvets can be used in a variety of ways.
The velvets also combine very well with other glaze lines, for example, the Artist Choice and the Opalescent lines from Amaco. These are earthenware brush-on glazes this in combination can produce unique results.
Especially the latter, the Opalescents, are very suitable for it since they have a certain degree of translucency, so the underlying color affects the final color. In addition, amaco’s Opalescent pulls open on edges and structures, revealing the color of the velvets.
Below a two examples, here is 1 coat of Velvet applied to the work and then 3 coats of Opalescent.