John Baisch on mon 26 aug 96
Hello All,
Back to Raku again...
I was at a friend studio over the weekend and saw
some pretty impressive stuff. Within in his collection
he had purchased a piece from a potter outside of Dallas
Texas.
The piece had a copper matt type Glaze but what was
impressive the deep blues, deep purples, deep reds, etc. You
easily could make out the smoke lines/flash points on the piece.
I couldn't quite make out the signature on the bottom but it looks like
Les Wilkinson, Has anyone heard of him or seen his pieces?
If you have, I'd like any information regarding the glaze recipe and
process to recreate the colors I have a very large piece that would
some color.
Thanks much,
JB
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chull@startext.net on tue 27 aug 96
John,
I don't know the particular artist you mention but there are several
artists in the area who use commercial glazes to achieve bright colors
in raku, myself included. I have a great pallet developed over the
years from testing these glazes which behave differently in the raku
atmosphere but the problem is, of course, that you are at the mercy of
the manufacturer should they decide to discontinue your favorite. In
this case, I then try to approximate the color using a base glaze and
Mason stains with great results. If I had more time for it I would mix
them all myself this way but my focus is elsewhere.
hope this helps...
Cynthia
John Baisch wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
> Hello All,
>
> Back to Raku again...
>
> I was at a friend studio over the weekend and saw
> some pretty impressive stuff. Within in his collection
> he had purchased a piece from a potter outside of Dallas
> Texas.
>
> The piece had a copper matt type Glaze but what was
> impressive the deep blues, deep purples, deep reds, etc. You
> easily could make out the smoke lines/flash points on the piece.
>
> I couldn't quite make out the signature on the bottom but it looks like
> Les Wilkinson, Has anyone heard of him or seen his pieces?
>
> If you have, I'd like any information regarding the glaze recipe and
> process to recreate the colors I have a very large piece that would
> some color.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> JB
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~~~~~~ John Baisch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~~~~~~~~ Boise, ID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~~~~~~~~~ E-Mail: jbaisch@micron.net ~~~~~~
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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