John Post on fri 11 feb 11
The advice on dividing your wet glaze into clear plastic containers is
correct. Each container will contain 100 grams of your dry material.
You can take it one step farther and create color combinations by
blending 50/50 mixes of each of your ten glazes after you have added
the colorants to them.
At Valley Vet pet supply you can order 60 cc syringes without the
needle attached. Item number 12970 on the page at the link below.
http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=3D2e87becd-7b6a-11d5-a192-00=
b0d0204ae5
I take plastic bathroom cups and use the syringe to put 25cc of each
of the glazes I am mixing into the cup. Then I dip a test tile. If
one original recipe had 1% cobalt in it and another had 3% copper, the
50/50 combination of those two would yield a glaze that has 0.5%
cobalt and 1.5% copper. This method of mixing glazes together wet is
called volumetric blending.
Ian Currie has written two books that make extensive use of this
mixing methodology. You can see some 50/50 blends I created of a cone
6 glaze on this page...
http://www.johnpost.us/Pottery%20Links/Test%20Tiles/glossy-base-test-tiles/=
glossy-base-tiles.html
John Post
Sterling Heights, Michigan
http://www.johnpost.us
Follow me on Twitter
https://twitter.com/UCSArtTeacher
| |
|
