Christine Campbell on fri 29 aug 08
Hi Antoinette!
Slumping and cracking.
No news flash, eh?
Totally supporting the work during firing helps
with the slumping.
Firing down with controlled cooling is helping
with cracking.
I am working now on getting to the point where
I can accept these flaws as part of the nature of
porcelain ...
but it is hard slogging!
Chris Campbell - in North Carolina
... with thanks to Curtis Benzle who first wrote
about this approach to porcelain and has the spunk
to highlight cracks rather than hide them!
--
Chris Campbell Pottery LLC
9417 Koupela Drive
Raleigh NC 27615-2233
Designs in Colored Porcelain
1-800-652-1008
Fax : 919-676-2062
website: www.ccpottery.com
wholesale : www.wholesalecrafts.com
Curtis Benzle on mon 1 sep 08
Thanks Chris... I still smile at potters who celebrate flashing and cringe
at cracks. There will always be "happy accidents" and just "accidents".
The challenge is to train your eye to know the difference.
Curt
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Christine Campbell <
neriagechris@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Hi Antoinette!
>
> Slumping and cracking.
>
> No news flash, eh?
>
> Totally supporting the work during firing helps
> with the slumping.
>
> Firing down with controlled cooling is helping
> with cracking.
>
>
> I am working now on getting to the point where
> I can accept these flaws as part of the nature of
> porcelain ...
> but it is hard slogging!
>
>
> Chris Campbell - in North Carolina
>
> ... with thanks to Curtis Benzle who first wrote
> about this approach to porcelain and has the spunk
> to highlight cracks rather than hide them!
>
>
> --
> Chris Campbell Pottery LLC
> 9417 Koupela Drive
> Raleigh NC 27615-2233
>
> Designs in Colored Porcelain
>
> 1-800-652-1008
> Fax : 919-676-2062
> website: www.ccpottery.com
> wholesale : www.wholesalecrafts.com
>
Antoinette Badenhorst on mon 1 sep 08
Hi Chris, yip, those are some of the bigger problems that we face; particularly when we work very thin.
That's what make it so more important to know and understand the type of porcelain one work with.
It is known that porcelain potters loose up to half of what they make due to cracks.
I wonder what kind of challenges there are with glazing and firing wood fired pieces. The few pieces of Southern ice that I fired in a gas kiln last year turned out grayish white with a very fine speckle in the clay. I still want to find out why that happened and I wonder if anyone else experienced that before.
What kind of reaction do you experience in regard of the cracks that you expose rather than hide?
--
Antoinette Badenhorst
www.clayandcanvas.com
www.studiopottery.co.uk
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Christine Campbell
> Hi Antoinette!
>
> Slumping and cracking.
>
> No news flash, eh?
>
> Totally supporting the work during firing helps
> with the slumping.
>
> Firing down with controlled cooling is helping
> with cracking.
>
>
> I am working now on getting to the point where
> I can accept these flaws as part of the nature of
> porcelain ...
> but it is hard slogging!
>
>
> Chris Campbell - in North Carolina
>
> ... with thanks to Curtis Benzle who first wrote
> about this approach to porcelain and has the spunk
> to highlight cracks rather than hide them!
>
>
> --
> Chris Campbell Pottery LLC
> 9417 Koupela Drive
> Raleigh NC 27615-2233
>
> Designs in Colored Porcelain
>
> 1-800-652-1008
> Fax : 919-676-2062
> website: www.ccpottery.com
> wholesale : www.wholesalecrafts.com
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