Malcolm Davis on sun 27 jul 03
If you love shino and want to spend two months exploring every possible
aspect of this quirky, addictive surface, join us this fall in the mountains of
western NC at Penland School of Crafts.
Kent McLaughlin and I will be leading eight weeks of intensive work with
shino-type glazes, mixing and testing, dipping and pouring, waxing and drying,
smoking and
firing. And all with porcelain! Yummy!
And downstairs class Kevin Crow, Dan Finnegan, Michael Kline, and Mark Peters
will all participate in teaching a class on wood kiln construction and firing
as well as aspects of functional stoneware.
Dates are September 21 - November 14, 2003.
Check out the fall classes section at the Penland website: www.penland.org,
or call 828-765-2359, ext. 15 to register.
Join us if you dare!
Malcolm Davis Porcelain
Lee Glass Road
HC 36, Box 394A
Tallmansville, WVbygod 26237
304-472-7043
ShinoM@aol.com
Joe Coniglio on mon 28 jul 03
My hero. My world was empty before MDS. Now I lose sleep over it most every
night. Life has meaning in it once more. I pine for my MDshino results.
The children ask me, "dad; did you really want it to look like that?"
"Yes!" I answer cogently --"Someday you'll understand".
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ALBANY SLIP: Another addiction:
Yesterday I was haunted by the early users of Albany slip visiting the
hallowed ground of a pre-revolutionary pottery works, no longer standing. On
stoneware. A.S. -a less sophisticated substance, of yesteryear. And missing
in time like laudanum. An addiction run dry chock with albany slip
sustitutes. Nothings quite like it, not quit the same 'they say'.... Only a
few since the 80's remember it like Thai stick or Panama Red. Remember that?
A historian tipster said I could find large shards there. The pottery put out
around 1775 to 1825. Rich Albany Slip interiors and salt glaze exteriors.
I found an incredible variable color-pallet of Albany slip shards used across
the period. 10-15 shades easily. What a lovely sheen to them. Some say the
variants of real, authentic glacial Albany slip are many, (this proved it
out!) having made substitutes difficult to begin with. Soft, dark cocoa
browns, supple, fired smooth on stoneware, never pocked, grazed, crawled nor
pinned.
Now a memory for most. Potter covet existing supplies in their inventories.
I am convinced the alchemy will not be lost. I appeal to those who have a
passion for Albany Slips as will as the significant and entirely different
shino class glazes continue to share and explore together. For apart they
will be lost and only a memory.
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