revelstonepots@AIM.COM on wed 5 apr 06
Hello. New email site.
I have a number of the Coyote glazes. Bought some after I saw the
results on a friend's pots. I only liked two or three of the ones she
had tried (we both agreed on this)
I sent for shino/green shino (did not like the color nor coverage),
archie's base (great), blue purple (lovely in electric), black and
chrome green, which I think is ugly and lifeless. I gas fired them, not
realizing that they had to be (as I was told later) fired in an
electric kiln. I did not try(m)any combination, if I recall.
Not giving up, I saw the live tiles in Portland and purchased, for
different purposes, looking mainly for satiny surfaces:
creamy matt with specks- great at ^5 electric
light shino - somewhat fun
blue matt - very nice, light and soft
gun metal green, which I thought to be satinny as well (looking at the
display piece) which I found boring when applied evenly, almost with a
pearlescent look. Surprised me that it was so different.
Mottled blue - yuk on the sample, wonderful on the mug I tried it on.
Semi-gloss, fun.
Saturated iton: way too glossy (taste), interesting color-sort-of,
perhaps great to combine.
I fired all twice, once at ^6 and next on ^5 on porcelain.
Trying combinations will be my next step. I both brushed and dipped
each color. Dips were better for me.
Overall I prefer other glazes, esp. the ones i made from my friend's
recipes. Another friend..I actually have TWO friends. Imagine that!
To Coyote: it may be helpful to present the glazes by surface-types:
matt, satin, gloss, high gloss, variagated... It was hard to see and
somewhat confusing which was which. To me it was, anyway.
To Lois: why don't you come over and try some of these? 570 226 6888
Marianne
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