Jim Tabor on thu 7 feb 02
> Firing in Oxidation to C/4.5.6
> by Val Cushing
>
> This article first appeared in Studio Potter, Volume 5, Number 2 (June 1977).
This is worth finding if you need a good argument for mid range firing. Included
are a claybodys and lots of glazes.
Let me know if you can't find it and want more info..
jt
>
>
> >I have a couple of students at Sheridan that are interested in mid range
> >ceramics. First thing I did, was recommend the new book by Ronnie and
> >Johnnie. I came back a week later and two had made the purchase.
> > Well, what do you think?
> >This is their interesting perspective. the book offers an attempt to do high
> >fire glazes at mid range. Old foggie pots. We had been hoping for low fire
> >ceramics at mid range. they wanted the colours of low fire and the
> >durability of high or mid fire.
> >I have found in my short time teaching that i am considered an "old foggie"
> >with old foggie glazes and an old foggie esthetic. I have already picked up
> >a nickname- "cowboy". Cowboy meant as a compliment because of my no nonsense
> >approach to pot making.
> >R and J did the job for me and sheila. Pots that we relate to.
> >the students are surrounded by a high fire esthetic, a love of low fire
> >colour and a wish to do it all in mid range. I thought tackling mid range
> >would be a cash cow but the more i think about it, the more I see it as a
> >nightmare. Smack dab in the middle.
> >I 'll do more than look at the students copies. I'll get my own copy,
> >autographed and christened with Jamiesons Irish whiskey and a talk by the
> >fire with Crawdad. It's been too long.
> >Cheers,
> >tony
>
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