Iben Vedel on tue 19 oct 04
Hello everyone.
I am working with creating special textures and surfaces on my pieces/sculptures and was wondering if some of you would part with recipes for special glazes like crater glazes, crawling glazes, matt and leather like glazes? I have also seen pictures of some glazes that almost looked like it was a powder sitting on the vessel?
At the moment I am putting very moist clay in the freezer to see what happens with and last night I tried to dry one piece in the oven at 150 C, it smelled VERY bad and fell to pieces! Fun and very educating! ;0)))
Iben
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Alisa Liskin Clausen on tue 19 oct 04
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:17:25 +0100, Iben Vedel wrote:
>Hello everyone.
>I am working with creating special textures and surfaces on my
pieces/sculptures and was wondering if some of you would part with recipes
for special glazes like crater glazes, crawling glazes, matt and leather
like glazes? I have also seen pictures of some glazes that almost looked
like it was a powder sitting on the vessel?
>At the moment I am putting very moist clay in the freezer to see what
happens with and last night I tried to dry one piece in the oven at 150 C,
it smelled VERY bad and fell to pieces! Fun and very educating! ;0)))
>Iben
>
>
Dear Iben,
Clay does not like to be frozen and it will act up if it is, or has been.
Tends to separte and fall apart like you said. Have to wedge it up again
very well for it to be happy again and be plastic.
As far as you glaze quest, go back into the archives for the last couple of
weeks. There has been much discussion about crawling and texture glazes.
I am sure there is info. there you can use for tests. You can dust your
work with Ball Clay or Kaolin or like, (wear mask), texture the the sides
with a wire or whatever you have, and then further expand the shapes from
the inside, without distrubing the claydust. When they are fired, they
will be dry, crusty and dusty with the clay coming through where you made
the decorative marks and expanded them. No glaze, or engobe or selective
glazing to highlight areas.
Regards from Alisa in Denmark.
Ivor and Olive Lewis on wed 20 oct 04
Dear Ibn Vedel
Your best contact for this sort of surface is Brain Gartside. He
contributes o Clayart and has a wonderful web site illustrating the
very concepts you are searching for.
Best regards,
Ivor Lewis.
Redhill,
S. Australia.
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