David Hendley on mon 31 oct 05
June, add an (drum roll) opacifier to make the glaze opaque!
The most popular are
~tin oxide -- try 2 to 5%
~zirconium (brand names such Zircopax, Ultrox, Opax) -- not
as strong as tin oxide, try 4 to 8%
~titanium dioxide -- titanium also tends to add "visual texture"
or mottling to a glaze, also try about 4 to 8%
When using stains, titanium is my favorite addition because stain-colored
glazes can look so flat and one dimensional, and it adds interest.
David Hendley
I don't know nothin' but the blues, cobalt that is.
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----- Original Message -----
> I just unlaoded my kiln with my test tiles of the 5X20 base recipe with
> 5,6,7,8 & 10% burgandy stain added, as suggested by many of the responses
> from my earlier question. the 10% is the best but is transparent. How
> would I make this and opaque glaze? Different base recipe? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated. Love the results of my test tiles but I
> want to use it as an over glaze decorative stroke also.
>
> June Kinsinger
.
Steve Slatin on mon 31 oct 05
June --
10 % superpax/zircopax or whatever zirconium silicate
opacifier you have lying around will turn 5x20 into a
pretty good white glaze. I find under 5% doesn't do
too good a job of opacification by itself, but if the
colorants are strong the combination can be pretty
good.
A white base with stain should give you a good strong
color and coverage both. If you use a slow cool
cycle, the Hesselberth/Roy Raspberry glaze is a good
place to start and pretty opaque, but I'd recommend
against sticking with exactly their tin/chrome mix. I
did and am now stuck with some regular buyers who
expect what I make to match what is rapidly becoming
what more sophisticated buyers immediately recognize
as a glaze other potters use. (Change that mix a bit
and you can get a different and distinctive mix that
will be 'yours.')
My notes are incomplete, but it appears that Zirconium
oxide also lowers the expansion of the glaze it's in,
which may be helpful or not, depending on how your fit
is.
Best wishes -- Steve Slatin
--- June Kinsinger wrote:
> Helo group,
>
> I just unlaoded my kiln with my test tiles of the
> 5X20 base recipe with 5,6,7,8 & 10% burgandy stain
> added, as suggested by many of the responses from my
> earlier question. the 10% is the best but is
> transparent. How would I make this and opaque
> glaze? Different base recipe? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. Love the results of my test
> tiles but I want to use it as an over glaze
> decorative stroke also.
>
> June Kinsinger
> Richmond
>
Steve Slatin --
Drove downtown in the rain
9:30 on a Tuesday night
Just to check out the
Late night record shop
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June Kinsinger on mon 31 oct 05
Helo group,
I just unlaoded my kiln with my test tiles of the 5X20 base recipe with 5,6,7,8 & 10% burgandy stain added, as suggested by many of the responses from my earlier question. the 10% is the best but is transparent. How would I make this and opaque glaze? Different base recipe? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Love the results of my test tiles but I want to use it as an over glaze decorative stroke also.
June Kinsinger
Richmond
-----Original Message-----
From: pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:45:50 -0700
Subject: Re: Problem solving skills
Hi Antoinatte,
What an interesting question!
Certainly there are many kinds of problem-solveing skills, as can occur in
many kinds of occupations or involvements...many kinds and many qualities of
them...of both...
Too, there are problem-creating skills, likewise...
Problem-recognition skills, likewise...
Making problems worse, skills, likewise...
And problem-management skills, too...
Skills for ignoreing, or being in denial about, or having
cognitive-dissonance with various kinds of 'problems' ( whether as
'solution' or as 'management' method, or as a way to make more
problems...or...)
Managing others who make, create, solve, or ignore problems, also...
Collusions or consensus as to just what is/was a 'problem' in the first
place, and the level of importance to be attributed to it, with respect to
whether it should be 'solved', and why...and so
on...
On and on...
In many areas of life, the 'solutions' have not been as good as the
'problem' had been...or, the solution is much worse than the problem had
been...or the 'solution' makes new 'problems'...
Atomic Weapons and Nuclear 'Power' may be imagined to be a good example of
some kind of 'problem' having been identified and 'solved'...and for the new
'problems' it made, to be ignored or 'managed' in varying degrees of
cognitive dissonance or denial or cascading problems evolveing from ongoing
'solutions'.
But I do not know if the "A-Bomb" and "H-Bomb" and Nuclear Power qualify as
'Art', or more as 'Craft'?
I do not think people 'learn' problem-solveing skills from being occupied in
Art or Craft, unless, maybe, we are limiting it to only some technical
relations of processes and materials they work with, or transfering
something familiar to something new ( however well or badly) , then, of
course they learn in-a-way,
( or by asking others or by experiment or maybe by use of reason, ) to solve
certain 'problems' which they have encountered, but this may not be what we
would call "problem-solveing skills" per-se...or at least I do not think it
is.
Rather, I think they bring to these occupations or passtimes, whatever
background level of applicible (by them, in their judgement, of)
problem-solveing skills they
will happen to already, ambiently posess or elect to use in any given area
of involvement.
Too, the term "problem-solveing skills" is really very vague, even if it
connotes some idea of someone, somehow, 'solveing' problems.
Charles Whitman (Aug 1st., 1966 I think it was, just to pull something ouf
of a hat arbitrarily, ) may be supposed to have acted in a way which for
him, 'solved' some 'problems' when he ascended that 'tower' in Austin, Texas
way back when...
Is Marsmanship 'Art'? Or 'Craft'?
Thus creating 'problems' and opportunities for contextual 'solutions' for
sundry
ER staff and others to confront, as well as 'problems' and opportunities for
'solutions' for various people's families, creditors, insurance
underwriters, launderers, courts, and so on...
Likewise with any example, in which what we are really asking/saying, is
about some order of consensus, and some order of abstraction to elect the
context, and some order of the qualifications or election criteria of that
particular
or general consenus...regarding the abstraction, and the context, and the
kinds of values which may be attributed to any of it.
The ability to identify a problem I think would come first, and that too is
tricky, in lots of ways, among which, is that so many people make problems
in various ways, either just
because they can, or while trying to 'solve' what they feel is some
'problem' to them, and, with varying kinds of understanding, or lack of
understanding, or point-of-view...and various kinds of motive, or empathy or
appreciation for what those problems left-alone, or solved, or how-solved,
may mean, or may mean to others.
Or, I think the question needs to be much narrower to be in focus.
Or it is too complicated for me anyway...
Lol...
Love,
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Antoinette Badenhorst"
> This morning I am flooding you with questions. Sorry! How do you think
that
> art and craft activities can help people learn problem solving skills? Do
> you think that learning these skills in practical life will give people
and
> specifically children tools in their hands that they can pull through to
> their personal lives? Opinions please? Thanks.
> Antoinette Badenhorst
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William & Susan Schran User on tue 1 nov 05
On 10/31/05 8:36 PM, "June Kinsinger" wrote:
> How would I make this and opaque glaze? Different base recipe? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated
Add an opacifier such as Superpax, Zircopax, etc...
-- William "Bill" Schran
Fredericksburg, Virginia
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June Kinsinger on tue 1 nov 05
If Titanium adds "texture", I do not want this, my husband is a die hard redskins fan and i do have the color exact in the 5x20, just too transparent. Getting alot of good info....keep it coming.
Thanks so much
june
-----Original Message-----
From: David Hendley
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:05:16 -0600
Subject: Re: burgandy glaze test tiles
June, add an (drum roll) opacifier to make the glaze opaque!
The most popular are
~tin oxide -- try 2 to 5%
~zirconium (brand names such Zircopax, Ultrox, Opax) -- not
as strong as tin oxide, try 4 to 8%
~titanium dioxide -- titanium also tends to add "visual texture"
or mottling to a glaze, also try about 4 to 8%
When using stains, titanium is my favorite addition because stain-colored
glazes can look so flat and one dimensional, and it adds interest.
David Hendley
I don't know nothin' but the blues, cobalt that is.
david@farmpots.com
http://www.farmpots.com
----- Original Message -----
> I just unlaoded my kiln with my test tiles of the 5X20 base recipe with
> 5,6,7,8 & 10% burgandy stain added, as suggested by many of the responses
> from my earlier question. the 10% is the best but is transparent. How
> would I make this and opaque glaze? Different base recipe? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated. Love the results of my test tiles but I
> want to use it as an over glaze decorative stroke also.
>
> June Kinsinger
.
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June Kinsinger on wed 2 nov 05
Rick, I did both single and double dips on my test tiles, the double was better but did run somewhat and did break on the edges to show very white. Using white clay, want to try on my speckled clay but I really do not want speckles in the glaze.Will keep researching and see what I can find.
Thanks for your info
June
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Shanks
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:26:31 -0800
Subject: Re: burgandy glaze test tiles
Hello June,
If your burgandy glaze is too transparent, the
glaze layer may be too thin. Chrome-tin glazes
require a thick coating for good color and are
then considered too opaque by many.
Rick Shanks
>If Titanium adds "texture", I do not want this,
>my husband is a die hard redskins fan and i do
>have the color exact in the 5x20, just too
>transparent. Getting alot of good info....keep
>it coming.
>Thanks so much
>june
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Rick Shanks on wed 2 nov 05
Hello June,
If your burgandy glaze is too transparent, the
glaze layer may be too thin. Chrome-tin glazes
require a thick coating for good color and are
then considered too opaque by many.
Rick Shanks
>If Titanium adds "texture", I do not want this,
>my husband is a die hard redskins fan and i do
>have the color exact in the 5x20, just too
>transparent. Getting alot of good info....keep
>it coming.
>Thanks so much
>june
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