Patty Alander on sat 20 feb 99
I love the look that Anne James achieves working with lusters that she
smokes with sawdust. She fires her already bisqued pieces to 800 C.
pulls them out of the hot kiln as for raku, and sprinkles sawdust on the
piece because she doesn't want too much reduction. Her work can be seen
in Jane Perryman's "Smoke-fired Pottery" and I believe Karin
Hassenberg's "Complete Potter: Sawdust Firing".
In an attempt to recreate her firings I did a test tile with 12
different lusters from a Med-Mar sample pack. I sprinkled them with
sawdust and all but one look the same! I realize that I may have to
play around with a lot of variables such as clay, slip, temp, and amount
of reduction, even type of sawdust, however, before I do that I'd like
to know if I'm using the right lusters. I'm using Med-Mar Lusters - are
there lusters designed for reduction?
I would love to get my hands on Margery Clinton's "Complete Potter:
Lustres" but our small, rural library has so far been unable to find
it. Any other suggested reading material out there? Anyone familiar
with Anne James' work? An e-mail address for her? *sigh* what a
thought!
Also, I'm rather new to the list - I did a search on lusters and lustres
in the Clayart archives under Glazes and got nothing, is there something
I'm missing, or has nothing ever been posted (or archived) about
lusters?
Thanks,
Patty
Barbara Lewis on sun 21 feb 99
I was inspired by her work as well. During a Ceramics Decoration class I
tried her technique using gold luster, applied to a pot with terra sigillata
that I had colored with underglazes. I think Anne uses gold luster. Have
you tried the gold? I suspect the effects of the other lusters might be too
subtle. Barbara
04 PM 2/20/99 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I love the look that Anne James achieves working with lusters that she
>smokes with sawdust. She fires her already bisqued pieces to 800 C.
>pulls them out of the hot kiln as for raku, and sprinkles sawdust on the
>piece because she doesn't want too much reduction. Her work can be seen
>in Jane Perryman's "Smoke-fired Pottery" and I believe Karin
>Hassenberg's "Complete Potter: Sawdust Firing".
>
>In an attempt to recreate her firings I did a test tile with 12
>different lusters from a Med-Mar sample pack. I sprinkled them with
>sawdust and all but one look the same! I realize that I may have to
>play around with a lot of variables such as clay, slip, temp, and amount
>of reduction, even type of sawdust, however, before I do that I'd like
>to know if I'm using the right lusters. I'm using Med-Mar Lusters - are
>there lusters designed for reduction?
>
>I would love to get my hands on Margery Clinton's "Complete Potter:
>Lustres" but our small, rural library has so far been unable to find
>it. Any other suggested reading material out there? Anyone familiar
>with Anne James' work? An e-mail address for her? *sigh* what a
>thought!
>
>Also, I'm rather new to the list - I did a search on lusters and lustres
>in the Clayart archives under Glazes and got nothing, is there something
>I'm missing, or has nothing ever been posted (or archived) about
>lusters?
>
>Thanks,
>Patty
>
Wellspring Clayworks
5412 Well Spring Road
La Plata, MD 20646
blewis@crosslink.net
Marc Kiessling on wed 24 feb 99
There is an excellent article detailing the making and using of reduced
pigment lustre's by Bob Connery in the current issue (No. 7) of Ceramics
Technical, pg. 9-20. Great article and photos.
Marc
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