Can you mix ceramic glazes together to get a different color? like mixing pink and white together to get a lighter pink or will it not work right?
Most of the time, it will not work right. Ceramic glazes are not like paint; they're minerals in a water suspension. It depends on what the minerals are that you're mixing, and how they will combine together as they turn into glass in the heat of the kiln. If you mix yellow and blue paint, you'll get a green of some sort. But if you mix a yellow and a blue glaze, you have no such guarantee. You're just as likely to get black, brown, or a bubbled beige as you are to get green. Underglazes are a different matter. They are pigmented clay slips. You can mix them like paint, most of the time. Why don't you fire a test tile of any glazes you want to combine? That will reduce the guesswork. Edit: Coyote Clay makes terrific glazes and underglazes, but they're for medium-fire, so it depends on what clay you're using and what temp your teacher is firing (high fire, low fire, medium), so you'll need to ask. Most high schools are using low-fire stuff, and glazes from Amaco. A big art supply store would usually carry some Amaco, and they can also be ordered online at places like Dick Blick.
