Marianne Lombardo on thu 3 jan 02
> In Michael Bailey's excellent book, there's one of my recipes.
The Tile Work that you made, pictured in the book, is so very lovely. I've
been looking at it several times for a few days. Is the glaze a matte
finish? I don't think it is from looking at the picture, but not sure. I
was wondering how you prevented different colors from running into each
other? Or is it because they are perhaps fired flat, and
therefore do not move much? The sky looks like it must have been
airbrushed. Lovely.
Marianne Lombardo
Omemee, Ontario, Canada
Paul Lewing on fri 4 jan 02
on 1/3/02 4:14 PM, Marianne Lombardo at mlombardo@NEXICOM.NET wrote:
> The Tile Work that you made, pictured in the book, is so very lovely. I've
> been looking at it several times for a few days. Is the glaze a matte
> finish? I don't think it is from looking at the picture, but not sure. I
> was wondering how you prevented different colors from running into each
> other? Or is it because they are perhaps fired flat, and
> therefore do not move much? The sky looks like it must have been
> airbrushed. Lovely.
The recipe printed with that tile piece is a fairly glossy glaze, but there
are actually 19 or 20 different glazes on that piece, only 3 of which are
variations on the printed one. Some of the glazes do bleed into the ones
next to them even though they're fired flat, but since the piece is 20" x
26" you can't see it too well in the picture. I'm very careful about the
relative chemistry of glazes I put next to each other, and try to use that
blending where I need it and avoid it where I don't. And yes, I can predict
when it will happen, even with glazes I have not used before. The sky is a
white glaze with several Mason stains sprayed over it with a mouth atomizer,
but you're right, it is the same effect as airbrushing, just easier.
For those of you who don't have the "Glazes, Cone 6" book by Michael Bailey,
the same piece is pictured on my web site at www.paullewingtile.com. It's
the framed panel of Mt. Rainier at sunset, but it's not backwards as it is
in the book. Michael has promised to reverse it in the second edition.
Paul Lewing, Seattle
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