James Bowen on sat 19 oct 02
In my slight experience turquoise is more likely if lithium
is present in your glaze. We have a pot that looks just
like the mineral Turquoise and the glaze is an opaque
turquoise with black crackle. Unfortunately we don't have
the recipe for it. We tried several copper glazes at UVAPAPA
and some gave a beautiful transparent turquoise color, but
we wanted the clay body to be hidden, and the glaze to be
fatter. We did not immediately place the pots in reduction,
but rather waited until cracks in the glaze appeared. We
left some out of reduction entirely. Something like that
could have been done in an electric firing. The cracks
could then be stained in any number of ways.
Enjoying life and the nice Autumn out here on the Eastern
Colorado plains as I recover from my heart surgery of last
Saturday. My friend potter and teacher Mark Benner is
running for senate and now I have to quit accompanying him
on the campaign trail for now. That latest issue of Ceramics
Art and Perception has given rise to a lot of creative ideas
to follow up on when I am able.
"Here's how you deal with the media. Begin with an illogical
premise and proceed perfectly logically to an illogical
conclusion"
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld to Paul Wolfowitz
(Harpers 11/02)
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