Lee on sun 13 apr 08
John,
I can't "zoom in" to see recipe of Rietz Blue/green. I do
Reitz Green and it has spodumene in it, but it looks nothing like your
grid. Did you use different oxides? You know orignally, this glaze
is just a shino with copper and rutile added.
You can see my Reitz green at the bottom of the page of this link:
http://matchaman.blogspot.com/
I noticed looking at the student's work and my
friends work, that when it was thin, you got a nice black, with green
and blue highligts. I found that more subtly appealing, so I took a
sponge to my bisque (my job during glazing at my 3 year apprenticeship
was sponging biqsue, then handing it to Shimaoka), and did a very damp
sponging. I could apply a thin coat without screwing up the shop
bucket for other folks. Sure enough, it came out how I hoped.
I have put Ian and Mary at Continental Clay in touch with
each other. Organizing a workshop in Minneapolis for 2009. Still
in embryonic stages.
I was impressed with the introduction to Revealing
Glazes, how he mentions that he began this method after visiting Japan
and seeing them use Western methods to study traditional Japanese
glazes.
While his method is "science", it allows one to work with
non-industrial materials and no analysis. It builds on tradtional
technology that modern "science" dogmatist turn their backs on.
--
Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that
can be counted counts."
(Sign hanging
in Einstein's office at Princeton)
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