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Hey everyone. I have been meaning to put up a piece to get things started.
I made a box similar to the one I made in the workshop and here it is. I know it is almost the same box but I wanted thoughts on the glazing as well as the finished piece. Hope you all are doing well!
Leanne

Glaze Recipes

Hey everyone!
I promised some glaze recipes and I finally dug them out of my crazy messy studio.
The first one is the cone 6 black that I promised Linda G.

It is from an article in Ceramics Monthly by Jayne Shatz
Glossy Black
gerstley borate 10.7
whiting 5.5
custer feldspar 78.9
EPK kaolin 4.9

add: colbalt oxide 2.1
copper carb 4.1
manganese dioxide 4.1

This glaze is a beautiful buttery glaze. Very stable on it's own. Can run over other glazes.
Where this thin it is a greenish blackish color.

When I made this glaze I used Kona feldspar and colbalt carb as substitutes.


And here is the turquoise glaze that I am fascinated with.
Glaze #231 variation# 3 Author E. Cooper The Potter's Book of Glaze Recipes

Neph sy 30
Whiting 20
Lithium Carb 5
Ball Clay 30
Flint 15
Copper Carb 1

This glaze is a light copper turquoise where thin but breaks into a mottled brown where thick.
Where thick the brown shows hints of a pinkish mauve color.
Very stable. Does shows signs of movement if extremely thick but has never run off a pot.

Here thick with a dot of errant clear glaze.











This is the turq. glaze over a black slip























Here I brushed on a copper wash that I then sponged off before the glaze application.



This is the same glaze with a substitution of: colbalt 4
rutile 3

Ideas

Hey Everyone,
Just a couple of notes on the workings of the Blog...
My thought is that we will keep the initial setting for now until I learn how to make a banner. (Which is beyond me for the moment.) Also that the blog will be private until we all decide different.
Okay, that taken care of we need to discuss how we want to discuss.
I think it would be best for people to post their work to be critiqued and then everyone else comment on the post. To do that you just click on the word comments below the the post (the word is purple) and a window will come up and you can write a comment to the author. All of this is blog speak so if you don't understand just write to me and I will try to make it clearer.
Can you believe that a week has passed since we were all together making work?
I miss it!
Leanne

more thanks

Leanne, thanks so much! I agree with Margaret with everything. I think we discussed private vs. public when we were all together, didn't we? It could get unwieldly if it was public, right? You are amazing! Linda Goldstone

Hello from Texas

Thanks for setting this up, Leanne.  Question 1-either is fine.   2-Simple is good.  3-You do it.  We know you'll do a great job.  We got everything home with no damage.  Hope everyone else had a safe trip home.       Margaret H.

Thanks

Welcome

Top Row from left: Margaret, Stephanie, Lana, Margaret B, Jane, Rebecca
Middle 3 from left: Linda G, Christina, Linda S
Bottom: Oliver, Constance, Leanne



Hey Everyone!
I hope you all had a safe trip home.
This is the basic setup for the new blog. I have invited all of you to be authors and hope that you got that email. If you wouldn't mind, could everyone post a comment confirming that you are up and running as an author. Then we can all get started.
Now, I also have a couple of questions....
1. Do you all want to be a public group or a private group?
2. There are fancier templates for the blog but I chose a simple one. Is this okay with everyone?
3. Do ya'll want me to write a group profile or do you all want to participate in that as sort of a mission statement?
Well, I am sure that I am not covering everything...but I will get back to you if I have any other pressing questions.
Hopes for inspired work to all!
Leanne