How to Mix a Mason Stain to Color a Clay Body for Marble or Agateware

Some of my advanced independent study kids like to try out marbled clay from time to time. It is rather labor intensive to show each student individually how to create a marbled clay body (as I am teaching another class when they are in with me...) so, I decided to create a video to show them what they need to know to properly and safely mix a mason stain into a slip then marble a clay. PLEASE NOTE the importance of wearing a respirator to avoid the inhalation of powdered stains or any ceramic powder. Look for other videos on how I threw them! Check out my playlist on working with this type of marbled clay. I show examples of throwing bowls, cups, etc. Also, I plan to add handbuilding ones to it as well eventually! This is a video on how to throw a marbled clay bowl: This video introduces Mason Stains to color a claybody. I use Laguna B-mix cone 5- which is a white stonware bo
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