Jeff Lawrence on tue 5 mar 02
Hi,
I've read that a bucket of shino will fire differently
after aging, but don't remember the particulars.
What are the differences? (wondering as I ponder the
half-bucket in the garage ... of the soda ash school if
that matters)
TIA,
Jeff
Jeff Lawrence
jml@cybermesa.com
Liz Willoughby on wed 6 mar 02
Jeff, if I am getting low on my shino glaze, I just mix up a new
batch and add it to my old. Contrary to some opinions, I have had
very good results from old shino, up to 6 months old or so. I do
think that the older it gets, because it has been used there might be
less soda ash in it. Mine has 17 % soda ash in it because I like the
carbon trapping, so I am not sure about recipes with much less soda
ash. I glazed some pieces last fall with shino that was at least 6
months old and got spectacular results.
Think really it has to do more with the firing than with how old the glaze is.
Liz, who is having her first firing of the spring, during a snow
storm, and using old shino, sieved with new. And who prefers tea out
of a teapot that is visually pleasing, and functionally sound. Saying
that, it IS a sculpture whether it is functional or not. The
sculptural aspects of the teapot can be very interesting to look at
and to make. Look at Bacia's forms, or Adrian Saxe's, or Richard
Notkin's work. Wonderful forms using the teapot. They get you
thinking, they MAKE you think. Just a different way of making, not
concerned with function, but with creating a unique form, which
usually has a message, political or otherwise.
>
>I've read that a bucket of shino will fire differently
>after aging, but don't remember the particulars.
>
>What are the differences? (wondering as I ponder the
>half-bucket in the garage ... of the soda ash school if
>that matters)
>
>TIA,
>Jeff
>
Liz Willoughby
RR 1
2903 Shelter Valley Rd.
Grafton, On.
Canada
K0K 2G0
e-mail lizwill@phc.igs.net
Katheleen Nez on thu 7 mar 02
(this is probably bad, but...)
Malcolm Davis (in "American Shino: the Glaze of a 1000
Faces") says:
"I was once told that you always have to mix up a
fresh Shino batch with each firing, but...buckets of
leftover glaze...get some fabulous results."
(same for letting the Shino sit for a couple of days,
to let the soda ash thouroughly dissolve.)
"...the more I work with it, the less I know and the
more I question. Every time I come up with a theory,
it is wiped out by the next firing."
Hey, I thought it was always that way with Pots
...nezbah
get yer copy from Hank...
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