Susan Kosko on mon 3 apr 00
dave -
hopefully i've changed the settings so you
can read the entire message!
susan
Hi all -
It was very interesting to read both Lesley's
and Dave's notes on shino. I attended
Malcolm's workshop in Florida a couple of
weeks before NCECA, and I have the same
information as Lesley. We actually did a
firing, and that was the way we fired. We
had a good firing there, and I learned
techniques I'm going to put into practice at
home.
One other thing in Dave's notes (which were
great ) that differed from something Malcolm
said. Dave said, "There was a comment that
high iron clay bodies yield more shino
results." Malcolm doesn't like shino on
stoneware, although he did say that different
recipes might be better on stoneware than his
favorite. My limited experience with a Jeff
Oestreich recipe I got from Clayart is that
there's not as much apparent carbon trapping
on stoneware - I like that recipe better on
porcelain. And at the firing in Florida, the
stoneware pieces I brought were ugly - dry,
almost brick red, no carbon trapping.
I can't wait to experiment!
Susan Kosko
New Durham, NH
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