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blue chun recipe

updated mon 21 sep 09

 

Gower on sun 20 sep 09


Hi Lee Is this reduction Cone 10 and can it be used on a white clay body
for get the nice blue colour? thanks
Debby
Mullumbimby Australia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Love"
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Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Blue celadon recipe


> Thanks Craig,
>
>
> This is my Chun blue. I call it Paul's Chun because Paul Morse from
> the UofMN gave it to me:
>
> Custer 80
> Whiting 7
> FLint 7
> WoodAsh 4
> boneAsh 2
> Y. Ocher 1
> Bentonite 1
>
> For purple splash: 3% copper slip on raw body. Sky blue on
> porcelain or white stoneware. The color of the above Nezumi Shino on
> iron bearing Stoneware. I plan on experimenting without ocher and on
> different slips and clay bodies.
>
>
> --
> --
> Lee Love, Minneapolis
> "The tea ceremony bowl is the ceramic equivalent of a sonnet: a
> small-scale, seemingly constricted form that challenges the artist to
> go beyond mere technical virtuosity and find an approach that both
> satisfies and transcends the conventions." -- Rob Sliberman
> full essay: http://togeika.multiply.com/journal/item/273/
>