Lili Krakowski on mon 2 may 05
To the person who got some bags of Red Art hoping to use it as a body.
I checked all my books over the weekend and some notes and so far I have
found that the largest amount of Red Art I could find in a recipe was 40%.
There may be recipes with more, I do not claim to have a special stash. But
my impression is that Red Art will not work alone.
Now you could find a recipe and buy the other ingredients. BUT the problem
there is that if indeed 40% is the maximum in the recipes, then 60% would be
other stuff. If you buy the other clays, the spar, whatever "economically"
you will have a bunch of opened 50 lbs bags sitting around. If you buy just
what you need it will cost much more.
Furthermore clay needs to be mixed. I used to mix mine in old cast iron
bathtubs, but I was much younger then...
Humble suggestion: keel one bag of the RA if you have room for beautiful
slip glazes. See if you can trade or sell the rest and buy yourself a ready
mixed body.
Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage
steve baker on tue 3 may 05
Redart can be used by itself, in fact, many prepared
red clay bodies are Redart + water and that is all.
The clay in general is actually pretty short, and is
probably best modified with some ball clay to help
with plasticity. Depending on the fired integrity of
the piece you are making, it will have a firing range
of about 02 to cone 1, though that can be expanded to
about 06 to cone 3 if you want a punky orange or a
vitreous orangey brown. The biggest drawback is that
it is weak.
--- Lili Krakowski wrote:
> To the person who got some bags of Red Art hoping to
> use it as a body.
>
> I checked all my books over the weekend and some
> notes and so far I have
> found that the largest amount of Red Art I could
> find in a recipe was 40%.
>
> There may be recipes with more, I do not claim to
> have a special stash. But
> my impression is that Red Art will not work alone.
>
> Now you could find a recipe and buy the other
> ingredients. BUT the problem
> there is that if indeed 40% is the maximum in the
> recipes, then 60% would be
> other stuff. If you buy the other clays, the spar,
> whatever "economically"
> you will have a bunch of opened 50 lbs bags sitting
> around. If you buy just
> what you need it will cost much more.
>
> Furthermore clay needs to be mixed. I used to mix
> mine in old cast iron
> bathtubs, but I was much younger then...
>
> Humble suggestion: keel one bag of the RA if you
> have room for beautiful
> slip glazes. See if you can trade or sell the rest
> and buy yourself a ready
> mixed body.
>
>
> Lili Krakowski
>
> Be of good courage
>
>
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