Interestingly, I found nothing that looked like the bottom part of this bowl above. I've been on the lookout for a unique look for my pottery. So, for now- this will be it.
The bowls will be a bit different, as they'll be fired in cone 6- electric kiln. What that in mind, I'm on the lookout for a blue translucent glaze. It's a tedious process to write the words (which can sometimes hurt my hands from all the etching) on the bowl when it's leather hard and then fire it and after the bisque firing, put the black mason stain in the crevices of the words.
It's all worth the time and work.
Oh, and have a cone 6 translucent blue glaze recipe to share?
Thanks for all your support and comments...
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What shade of blue are you looking for? Bluegrass is nice, you may have used that at Clayworks, and I have a celadon recipe somewhere that you could make more or less blue.
Or if you are going for a more cobalt look, you could take a clear glaze and do a line blend with cobalt until you get the color you want. I also have a recipe somewhere for a glaze called clear powder blue that is really nice.....
Let me look through my books....
Hi Tracey-
Yes, I do have the bluegrass recipe from clayworks. the blue one in the pic is a celadon one, but it's for cone 10, so I'm on the lookout for a similar one for cone 6. Anything blueish that is translucent... cobalt is fine. interested in the clear powder blue one too--- thanks for looking--- and someday, when I'm closer that way, would be fun to meet you.
I needed a robin's egg blue for a customer a few years ago. I used Mason Stain # 6376, Robin's Egg Blue. I think you can see it on their website. I added it to the clear glaze I usually use. In my case, I was going for opaque and used 8%. I'm guessing that around 4% it would be translucent.
Thanks Melissa! I'll look into that.
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