anne chambers on thu 29 aug 96
Linda,
I took a workshop with Alan Caiger-Smith last October, looking back through my n
found some recipes for reduced lustres that you can try.
Fire lustre to 660C (reduction)
Red
copper sulfate 18
tin oxide 22
red ochre 100
Caiger-Smith favorite colour
silver chloride 15
tin oxide 10
copper carb 25
red ochre 80
T7
silver carb 70
red ochre 50
kaolin 50
80.6 William Burton
copper sulfide 27
silver sulfide 7
red ochre 50
kaolin(calcined) 16
He mixed only very small amounts of lustre at any one time.
mix up gum solution 50/50 with hot water, then about a teaspoon of lustre with e
gum/water solution to make the lustre flow. He mixed it up on a glazed tile.
Here in Canada you can find red ochre at Lee Valley Tools(wood working, gardenin
Calcine all pigments except silver especially for a big kiln, maybe OK in a smal
The lustres need heavy reduction, after you get red heat. The red can take some
on cooling the silver is best without oxygen on cooling.
You can spray an art fixitive to pots to keep the lustre from rubbing off in han
I haven't tried any of these recipes yet...waiting for that elusive day when I'l
time to experiment. I would certainly be keen to hear of any results.(hmmmm....w
you could do this in a Raku kiln?)
Anne Chambers
Ottawa, Can.
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