About Duncan® Ceramic Arts™
Duncan® Ceramic Arts™ is the leading hobby ceramic brand, trusted as the ultimate source of fired creativity by hobbyists, educators, students and studio owners for more than 60 years.
The Duncan® Ceramic Arts™ brand is renowned for its comprehensive line of nontoxic products including color, bisque, brushes and tools, supported by an honored educational program that has evolved to meet the needs of ceramists throughout the brand’s 63 year history. Select one of Duncan's line of glazes and get inspired by the beautiful array of colors.
Duncan Crystal Glazes:
Set off fireworks of color on your pieces with Crystals Glazes! These unique glazes create bright, multicolored bursts and specks when fired, resulting in a different finish every time. With Crystals Glazes, color crystals move throughout the glaze during firing, creating a distinctively interesting appearance. Each result depends on the size of the crystal, slope of the piece and temperature of the fire. Like the excitement of fireworks festivities, you’ll love the pops of color from Crystals Glazes!
Duncan Pure Brilliance Clear Glaze:
Join Duncan in being socially and environmentally responsible and moving our industry toward a world safe for our children and future generations. Duncan® now offers Pure Brilliance® - the first-ever high-performance, nontoxic clear glaze. Choose Pure Brilliance® for a clear glaze that is forgiving and has a fast and stable dry time, all while giving your piece a brilliant shine! Pure Brilliance® also enhances underglaze colors, is craze resistant and most importantly, is super easy to use. Simply put, Pure Brilliance® does it all!
Duncan Envision Glazes:
Envision yourself with the best – quality nontoxic, dinnerware-safe glazes in colors you love! Envision® Glazes work with a variety of decorating techniques and produce a distinctively smooth and elegant appearance in intense colors ranging from opaque to transparent. See the world in vibrant color! Envision® Glazes are perfect for ceramists, schools and finished-ware manufacturers!
Easy to use
Creamy consistency for excellent brushability
Works in perfect harmony with other Duncan glazes and underglazes for dramatic results
Available in 4-oz. jars with selected colors available in pints and gallons
Duncan Concepts Underglazes:
The concept is simple: color selection is a snap with Duncan Concepts® Underglazes! These underglazes offer a multitude of vibrant fired ceramic colors in a balanced palette of compatible hues of light, bright and dark colors, making color selection easy – whether it’s your first time or your hundredth! Duncan Concepts® Underglazes have a versatile formula that allows for translucent designs with one coat and solid coverage with three. They’re also nontoxic and food-safe with the application of three solid coats or when food-safe clear glaze is applied over them. Duncan Concepts® work beautifully with other Duncan products, including French Dimensions™, Satin Glazes®, Crystals™ Glazes and Courtyard™ Art Glazes.
Duncan Mask N' Peel:
It’s extra easy to make your piece extra appealing – all you need is a little Mask ‘n Peel™! This water-based formula protects design areas or colors where applied, making application of background or adjoining colors faster and easier. Just brush it on, let dry, paint and peel! Simple steps to an impressive piece! Mask 'n Peel™ can be used under or between opaque underglazes, glazes or nonfired acrylic colors, and under translucent underglazes. It’s an excellent aid for beginning ceramists.
Duncan Precious Metals Luster:
Go for gold with Duncan's Precious Metals! Apply over fired glaze to add brilliant gold accents that’ll make your project look like a million bucks! One coat of Precious Metals offers opaque coverage. Apply over gloss glazes for a shiny sheen or matte glazes for a subtle luster.
Duncan Patch- A- tatch:
Don’t let the broken bisque blues get you down – think fast with Patch-A-Tatch®! This quality ceramic cement is used to attach or repair greenware or bisque, so it’s easy to see why most ceramists consider Patch-A-Tatch® an essential product for ceramics. Save your piece – and your sanity – with Patch-A-Tatch®!
Characteristics:
Metallic Lusters (Premium Gold, White Gold, Bright Gold)
1. Opaque overglaze have the brilliance of 22-karat yellow
gold or white gold.
2. Their appearance is determined by the glaze the metallic
is applied over (on a gloss glaze, the metallic will be shiny;
on a matte glaze, the metallic will be dull).
3. Metallic overglazes are normally applied over a red glaze
but can also be applied to high- red porcelain bisque or
stoneware.
Lusters ( Mother Of Pearl)
1. Translucent overglaze with a lustrous iridescence. Its
appearance is determined by the glaze that the luster is
applied over (on a gloss glaze, the metallic will be shiny;
on a matte glaze, the metallic will be dull)
Work Area:
When using Duncan® Overglazes, work in a clean, dust-free area
with good ventilation. Your hands must be free of all oils, hand
lotion and moisture
Brushes:
Choose any Duncan® brush with soft hair that will produce the
coverage or strokes you wish to achieve. BR 594 No. 12
Mother-of-Pearl is perfect for applying luster. Brushes used to
apply Duncan® Overglazes should be cleaned with Essence and
wiped on a paper towel. Brushes must be thoroughly dry before
use. Reserve brushes for exclusive use with only one
Duncan® Overglaze
Metallic Luster Application:
1. Apply an overglaze compatible glaze to cone 04 bisque.
2. Fire to cone 06.
3. Do not stir or shake overglaze.
4. Place a small amount of overglaze on a glazed palette;
apply one smooth coat.
5. Try to attain an even tint:
a. Premium Gold tint should be red in color.
b. Bright Gold tint should be brown in color.
c. White gold tint should be green in color.
6. Do not let metallics pool in an area; brush them out smoothly.
7. Clean brush in Essence and let dry
Luster Application:
1. Apply an overglaze compatible glaze to cone 04 bisque.
2. Fire to cone 06.
3. Do not stir or shake overglaze.
4. Place a small amount of overglaze on a glazed palette:
a. For a swirled look, swirl on one coat, overlapping strokes.
b. For a smooth look, brush on all strokes in the same direction.
5. Correct application should produce a light blue tint
Tips:
1. If overglazes are accidentally applied on the wrong area, dip a
cotton swab in Essence and wipe o misplaced color.
2. If any areas are missed, go back and touch up before the
metallic or the luster overglazes dry.
3. For solid coverage with Premium Gold or Bright Gold, use either a
yellow glaze or a yellow underglaze for best results; for solid
coverage with White Gold, use a gray glaze or a gray underglaze
Firing:
1. Overglazes dry in about one hour but overglazed ware can be red
while still wet. The kiln must be clean, well-ventilated (do not
overload) and follow a normal ring schedule.
2. Overglazed items should be stilted for ring:
a. Fire metallics to witness cone 019-018.
b. Fire lusters to witness cone 020
