Friday, 7 May 2010

New pots

A sight I was glad to see!
The new shape jugs- Busty Jugs !!
This is my black glaze.....Hmm
and Iron reds are always fickle!! I just need to be braver and glaze thicker!!
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soubriquet said...

Worth getting up early, for the firing, then!
That is a really nice black glaze.
I'd like to see some more pics of it.
A kind of subtle black, that the uninitiated probably can't see at all, poor creatures that they are.

What's in it, colouring constituent-wise?
I'm not joking, by the way, I do like it.
I also like that blue on the jugs, the way it's translucent over detail.

7 May 2010 at 20:15
gz said...

The black glaze(!) has yellow ochre in it-I used up an old bag of Wengers yellow ochre! The next batch should be a good glossy black, breaking like a Tenmoku. The base is the old Leach 1234!
The colouring in the jugs is actually copper carbonate. It will be one of those that some will swear that it is green, others blue!!

It is most odd, a bit of Farmtown from facebook seems to have wandered onto this post!!! Can you see it?

7 May 2010 at 21:38
Zhoen said...

Love the little blue and white with squiggle particularly.

8 May 2010 at 03:00
soubriquet said...

I wondered what the farmy bit was, and how it was relevant.
Wengers Yellow Ochre!, good grief... Wengers went out of business when dinosaurs still roamed the earth!
Still, there's no expiry date on yellow ochre.

The blue's good, definitely.

10 May 2010 at 01:49
gz said...

We have problems with a Java embedded frame....apparently there are a few people having problems with Java! I didn't even ask for it to appear!!
The blue and white bowl is blue slip with a clear glaze- want the recipe soub?

10 May 2010 at 09:14
soubriquet said...

Yes please!
Especially if it's made out of the limited stores I've got.

10 May 2010 at 18:10
soubriquet said...

Um...If you go into "edit post", "edit html", you should be able to delete the offending javanese bit, which will start just after "busty jugs!!", and go on until "div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;""

Ummm. The comment form balked at me quoting html code.

11 May 2010 at 00:16
soubriquet said...

Kill this bit:

http://cdn.slashkey.com/flash/farm/main/0428-185716/farm_loader.swf

11 May 2010 at 00:18
gz said...

I've lost the offending bit- but also the nice blue and white bowl'''never mind, there will be more of them!!

Tableware Gloss cone9 to 10, oxidised or reduced. Recipe:-

Potash Feldspar 23 Whiting 11
Talc 15 Silica 13 Bone Ash 4
China Clay15 Ball Clay 13

I can't remember where I got it- could have been Clayart.forum

11 May 2010 at 18:33
soubriquet said...

Well, I've got feldspar. whiting and china clay...

12 May 2010 at 20:58
gz said...

So you have Hamada's 123 glaze base....

16 May 2010 at 18:36

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