orion on sat 14 aug 99
Folks!
I sure do love terra sig -- but the conventional wisdom is to fire under
Cone 02 or sacrifice the sheen.
I've got some great Cone 8 sculpture clay that I hate to give up when I want
to finish a piece in the terra sig style.
Anyone have any recipes/ideas for getting a terra sig type finish at higher
temps?
Best to all,
Ellen Baker
Glacier, WA
orion@telcomplus.net
Frank Gaydos on mon 16 aug 99
I just returned from a great workshop with Allen Willoughby and Linda
Shusterman. They use terra sigs as a base for their salt and wood/salt
firing to cone 10.
They results were impressive and easy to obtain.
I'm not sure if they would want me to share their formulas without asking so
I will not. However, try some of your own and see what you get.
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: orion
To:
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 8:37 PM
Subject: Any High Temp Terra Sig Effects?
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Folks!
>
> I sure do love terra sig -- but the conventional wisdom is to fire under
> Cone 02 or sacrifice the sheen.
>
> I've got some great Cone 8 sculpture clay that I hate to give up when I
want
> to finish a piece in the terra sig style.
>
> Anyone have any recipes/ideas for getting a terra sig type finish at
higher
> temps?
>
> Best to all,
>
> Ellen Baker
> Glacier, WA
>
> orion@telcomplus.net
>
Carolyn Cooper on wed 18 aug 99
Ed Thompson of San Diego, along with his students, does quite a bit with of
terra sig with Cone 10 clays at the UCSD Crafts Center in San Diego. It's
more of a satin finish than a gloss, but the results are lovely. They do
the usual -- apply a Cone 10 colored slip to leather-hard pot, burnish like
mad (right now the favorite burnishing tools seems to be plastic bread bags
spread tightly over the fingertip and used after the slip has dried just
enough to not rub right off but before it's a totally dry "powder"), fire
to bisque. Some folks then do a saggar firing after that.
I hope this helps. Unfortunately, Ed isn't wired yet.
Carolyn Cooper
At 10:37 PM 8/14/99 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Folks!
>
>I sure do love terra sig -- but the conventional wisdom is to fire under
>Cone 02 or sacrifice the sheen.
>
>I've got some great Cone 8 sculpture clay that I hate to give up when I want
>to finish a piece in the terra sig style.
>
>Anyone have any recipes/ideas for getting a terra sig type finish at higher
>temps?
>
>Best to all,
>
>Ellen Baker
>Glacier, WA
>
>orion@telcomplus.net
>
>
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