mel jacobson on thu 14 sep 06
i have been working on some new glaze ideas using my
basic rhodes 32/modified.
the rhodes glaze is a wonderful over glaze as it tends to show
slips, trailing, underglaze color and much more.
i have always used rhodes 32 white in combination with
under rhodes 32 with rich color. if one uses rutile and iron
you get a great deal of runny/almost hare's fur.
i have built a rich, almost temmoku/rutile rhodes
glaze and have added crushed taconite pellets. (that is iron
ore that is processed into pellets.) just used a metal base and
crush them with a steel mallet head. don't measure, just dump
in a batch.
i glaze a base of this iron glaze, then cover with a pure white thin coat
of rhodes 32 base with a touch of zircopax. in most cases i add a base
coat first of rhodes, then the iron glaze, then the top glaze....that is
more accurate i think. i love layers.
if you like textured surface...with lots of action..man, does this work.
i have added pix on my clayart website...just click below
and you can look at them.
just opened the kiln yesterday.
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during my time off from clayart i have been a throwing fiend.
got hundreds of pots made....just sort of tucked into my
studio 24/7. let my brain run wild with pots, not computers.
mel
from: mel/minnetonka.mn.usa
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
Clayart page link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
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