The quality of my glazing wasn't as good as I had expected...I have a lot of pieces that earned the golden chisel award...Granted, to some degree these things can't always be prevented if you do not know how badly the glazes run because some glazes will run a lot more than others. The important thing is to make sure that your pieces are wiped off at the bottom with only a finger nail in thickness left at the bottom.
Another thing that I wasn't satisfied with was the fact that some of my glazes didn't turn out the way I had expected them to...I made sure to apply the glazes in the correct order, A over B or vice versa. I did have to go back and correct some of my pieces so that the there were little or no finger prints. I also had to make sure that I did not put the coatings on way too thick...
The most important thing I learned this semester is to leave a finger nail thickness at the bottom. Personally, I believe if I had done that from the beginning, it would have prevented a lot of the problems that I am currently having...
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