Robin Wolf on sat 11 aug 12
Does anyone out there have a good recipe for a spring/grass/leaf green
stain?
Will use it on ^6 Bmix, maybe under Leach's satin clear. Need it for
highlighting the leaves in trees, and for grass around the base of the
trees. Have tried Tom Coleman's Army green stain from "Glazes I use", and
it is too brown. Tried straight copper wash at 3 grams copper carbonate to
15 grams Gerstley Borate + 2 grams bentonite and 10 grams glycerin with 150
grams of water. It is a very weak green. Pretty pale and mild. Will
increasing the copper to 6 or 10 grams in the same recipe make a deeper
green? I have a small NOVA kiln that I can do tests in, but did not want t=
o
waste the materials by just mixing and blindly looking for an answer.
Thanks guys,
Robin Wolf
Robin Wolf Pottery
Kingfisher, OK
www.robinwolfpottery.com
Lis Allison on sun 12 aug 12
On August 11, 2012, Robin Wolf wrote:
> Does anyone out there have a good recipe for a spring/grass/leaf green
> stain?
>
> Will use it on ^6 Bmix, maybe under Leach's satin clear. Need it for
> highlighting the leaves in trees, and for grass around the base of the
> trees. Have tried Tom Coleman's Army green stain from "Glazes I use",
> and it is too brown.
If your glaze has zinc in it, chrome will go brown. I have good success
with Mason 6500 Evergreen. Copper goes mint-green in my glazes, yuck.
Lis
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Elisabeth Allison
Pine Ridge Studio
website: www.pine-ridge.ca
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