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^1 soda glazing

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Marcia Selsor on tue 15 may 07


Lee,
I fired my terra cotta to ^1 soda glazed when I was at the Archie
Bray in Helena.
I still have one bird bath and a copule of corbels from there. The
colored underglaze slips came out well. My favorite was
bernard slip 1/3 epk 1/3 and frit 3110 1/3. It came out a buttery
golden color.
There is a photo on my website of some of the corbels with the colred
under glaze slips on the gallery link under architectural ceramics.
And yes I dissolved soda ash into boiling water in order to spray it
into the ports.

Marcia Selsor
http://marciaselsor.com

On May 15, 2007, at 2:09 AM, Lee Love wrote:

> On 5/15/07, Vince Pitelka wrote:
>
>> But here's a good question. Low-fire salt is quite popular. I am
>> especially fond of Ron Meyers's low-fire salt work on terracotta.
>> So,
>> what's happenening when we salt a kiln at cone 04? How is the salt
>> vaporizing and re-depositing on the wares? I'd really like to
>> know the
>> chemistry of
>
> I just read that Meyers works in soda too. (He was the potter judge
> for the McKnight I was awarded.) Soda works at low temps. John
> Kantar first earthenware to cone 1, where it is vitreous and
> introduces soda. You can see his work here:
>
> http://www.handmadepots.com/
>
> I find cone 1 soda intriguing. May work with it this summer
> or during my residency in the spring. NCC has a soda kiln. Cone 1
> is less expensive to fire at and it makes a vitreous body for
> functional work.
>
> --
> Lee in Mashiko, Japan
> Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
> http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
>
> "

Lee Love on wed 16 may 07


On 5/16/07, Marcia Selsor wrote:

> bernard slip 1/3 epk 1/3 and frit 3110 1/3. It came out a buttery
> golden color.
> There is a photo on my website of some of the corbels with the colred
> under glaze slips on the gallery link under architectural ceramics.

can you give the exact link to the image? I don't know what I am looking for.

Thanks,

--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi

Marcia Selsor on thu 17 may 07


The soda fired pieces are the third image and the next to the last
image. The sewer pipe brown is the plain soda glazed terra cotta. The
deeper crevases you are referring to are washed off underglaze stain
not on soda fired pieces.
Marcia
On May 17, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Lee Love wrote:

> On 5/17/07, Marcia Selsor wrote:
>> Lee,
>> The gallery page is this link
>> http://www.marciaselsor.com/arch_ceram.html
>> The first picture on the left is a ^1 soda glazed terra cotta corbel
>> with colored underglaze stains.
>> There are several other soda glazed terra cotta corbels on the
>> scroll.
>>
> Thanks. That looks great. Are the darker high spots the slip or
> are the crevasses slipped too and it is the soda making the difference
> in color?
> --
> Lee in Mashiko, Japan
> Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
> http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
>
> "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
> Henry David Thoreau
>
> "Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
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http://marciaselsor.com

Marcia Selsor on thu 17 may 07


Lee,
The gallery page is this link
http://www.marciaselsor.com/arch_ceram.html
The first picture on the left is a ^1 soda glazed terra cotta corbel
with colored underglaze stains.
There are several other soda glazed terra cotta corbels on the scroll.
Marcia
On May 16, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Lee Love wrote:

> On 5/16/07, Marcia Selsor wrote:
>
>> bernard slip 1/3 epk 1/3 and frit 3110 1/3. It came out a buttery
>> golden color.
>> There is a photo on my website of some of the corbels with the colred
>> under glaze slips on the gallery link under architectural ceramics.
>
> can you give the exact link to the image? I don't know what I am
> looking for.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Lee in Mashiko, Japan
> Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
> http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
>

Marcia Selsor
http://marciaselsor.com

Lee Love on fri 18 may 07


On 5/17/07, Marcia Selsor wrote:
> Lee,
> The gallery page is this link
> http://www.marciaselsor.com/arch_ceram.html
> The first picture on the left is a ^1 soda glazed terra cotta corbel
> with colored underglaze stains.
> There are several other soda glazed terra cotta corbels on the scroll.
>
Thanks. That looks great. Are the darker high spots the slip or
are the crevasses slipped too and it is the soda making the difference
in color?
--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi