mel jacobson on tue 17 sep 02
god almighty, no one is selling blue short.
i have made most of my money in clay selling a teal
blue/tan rhodes glaze.
it is the word teal that makes me smile...not mil blue.
it is the hue of blue...not blue unto itself.
it is that ghastly middle, thalo light, blue.
looks like the sky in every junior high painting ever
done. makes a grown person gag.
it is the color used in painting classes at every art
center in the world.
it is the blue that comes with cheap dishes. figurines
from the old dime store
potters love celedon blue, celedon green, temmoku, shino.
the world at large rejects a great deal of the color we
spend our life looking for and finding as potters.
it is our curse.
with blue respect.
mel
make the right blue, you sell pots.
if you want to eat, pay your health insurance, make blue.
just get it right.
it is a subtle thing.
a message from the farm at hay creek
F.Chapman Baudelot on wed 18 sep 02
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Mel wrote:
>make the right blue, you sell pots.
>if you want to eat, pay your health insurance, make blue.
>just get it right.
If it weren't for blue, I would certainly have starved by now. If that=20
were to happen, I would be unable to make any pots at all.
Fran=E7oise
http://indalopottery.tripod.com/fenix.html
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mel jacobson on sat 21 sep 02
i did not say you would get a perfect blue, a nice blue, or
even a decent blue.
at one percent you would get blue.
any recipe, any surface.
it would be blue.
the point is.
take any recipe, do a series of tests.
tiny bit of cobalt, bit more, bit more, then
some more. use a thimble to measure with. not a scale.
what do you get?
blue.
lots of them.
mel
i am not going to do that.
not at all.
gonna make white.
then make cups.
From:
Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
web site: my.pclink.com/~melpots
or try: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
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