Diane G. Echlin on thu 30 mar 00
Bacia,
Any possibility you could share your lucious glazes with us? I'm
especially interested in the crawled one on Lichen XII. Pretty please?
Di (waiting hopefully for some cool texture glazes)
Murray & Bacia Edelman on mon 3 apr 00
At 12:40 PM 03/30/2000 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Bacia,
>Any possibility you could share your lucious glazes with us? I'm
>especially interested in the crawled one on Lichen XII. Pretty please?
>Di (waiting hopefully for some cool texture glazes)
Diane: The room where the p.c. is located is also our guest room and it
has been occupied by one daughter after another and each slept a lot.
This is the first chance I have had to answer your request.
I use two basic lichen glazes.
One is Bell's Lichen and appeared in an article in C.M. by Lana Wilson, and
I am quite sure it is also in her book.
Cone 6-8
30 Soda Spar
31 Magnesium Carb.
6 Frit 3819
8 Talc
6 Zinc oxide
19 kaolin
The other lichen glaze was offered by Brian Kemp, in Clay Times, I think,
and is similar.
Cone 6 Kemp Lichen
30 Soda Spar
30 Magnesium Carb.
10 Frit 3134
10 Talc
20 Kaolin
You can add oxides or stains to any of these recipes.
What is original in my surface is the layers which I place on the work first.
I have used all sorts of coats from terra sigillata to a Mayco hobby shop
product
named Astrogem, which comes in many colors. It is an underglaze with ground,
crushed bits of glaze in it. Then I make up my own underglazes, add Mason
stains, and use those as first coats, or second, or third. Some are put on
green ware, but for safety's sake in handling, I often apply after bisque.
So you would have to try a lot of tests. Even my notes don't net me the
same results twice.
Then, the application. I spray with one of those R 62, I think it is
called, sprayers that shoots out material very fast. The lichen glazes
don't work well with a sophisticated spray gun, or at least the one I have.
If too much is applied, big hunks can fall off and leave just the
undercoat. If too little, one doesn't get the islands of separate glaze.
Despite all the experience, I still can get a terrible
result, usually from spraying too heavily.
Have fun. Bacia
Bacia Edelman Madison, Wisconsin
http://www.mypots.com/bacia.htm
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