Above: Left tile: Burke's celadon; Right tile: Bluegrass on left triangle of tile; Leah Leitson's Chun's Celadon on right triangle. Looks like the celadon is running over the bluegrass easily.
In this, I'm looking for transparent glazes. I want something that is similiar to what is above at the top of this blog, a color that one can see through to see the words written on the outside of the pieces.
Left tile: Leah Leitson's Chun Celadon (double dipped on top)
Right tile: Floating Blue (double dipped on top)
Left tile: Leah Leitson's Chun Celadon and then the top part dipped in Leah Leitson's Chun Light Blue
Right tile: Floating Blue- (double dipped on top)
As you can see, I put a cross stop in the middle of each tile and particularly on the left, you can see the underglaze shining through. The stamps are to see if the glaze is transparent.
Here's another one I'll use someday.
Left tile: Bluegrass
Right tile: Caribbean Sea Green (double dipped on top)
What fun this is! I admit that it helps and is incredibly inspiring to see my niece and nephew have so much fun playing with the test tiles and having so much fun. They are the best!
Today I mixed 500 grams of one of the glazes. Tomorrow another, and then adding water, and the sifting begins! My hope is to have two glaze firings done by next Tuesday when I leave for a conference with colleagues who are interested in buying some pottery; Tuesday, a lofty but attainable goal!
Thanks for reading. It's always good to hear your wisdom and comments. Loving the pottery world!
4 comments:
Lots of good information there,lots of hard work too, right? I love that bluegrass glaze, I used it a lot when I was in Charlotte, very easy glaze to work with!
It is exciting to open the kiln and to find lovely colourful tests in it. I am sure you will find them most useful. I'm envious that your floating blue did what it was supposed to do! I must have another try at that one as I know it can be beautiful when it goes right!
I read in your previous post that your 90 year old Grandma died. It is hard losing those that you love, no matter how old they are. It was nice that you had the fine company of a 3 year old with you at the memorial service. Children are really great the way they embrace life with so much enthusiasm, they bring so much hope with them!
Looks like you found some winners there. Nice to get good results after the time consuming process of mixing glaze tests.
Sorry to hear of your grandmother's death. Makes me remember my grandparents and wish I had learned more of their history while they were here.
tracey- hard work, yes. i don't mind most of it, except for sifting, which is the worst!!!
Peter- how true in all you said. good to hear from you! yes, floating blue is great, especially the variation in color- brownish when thin.
Melissa- always more to learn. i'm amazed too at how much i'm learning from others who loved my grandma.
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