Lee Love on wed 18 aug 04
(Phil Rogers. Please write. My mail program ate your email! Sorry!)
Layering has always been one of my favorite ways to use
glazes. My recent experiments have been with American type shinos.
What was interesting to me at my teacher's workshop, was to
see how much of the layering was done over a clear feldspathic
glazes. First, the feldspathic nami jiro is put down to go under
kaki. Then a non-feldspathic nami jiro is put on the rim, where the
glaze will not be covered over and then wax is put on this and then slip
trailed decoration. The decoration is resisted, and then the kaki is
put over this. This makes for some interesting edges, where the kaki
meets the clear feldspathic glaze below.
If you look at this bottle:
http://public.fotki.com/togeika/pots_from_mashiko/tokuri.html Part
of the reason for the warmth of the green glaze is because of the nami
jiro underneath. The seiji green is usually put over a white body.
When I was limited to electric firing, I did majolica and a
boro-lithium substitute for lead. I also experimented with putting
ash glazes over Alberta slip, slip glazes. I found an article on these
at cone 6 in an old CM. These are very interesting because the slip
glaze percolates and makes variations through the fluid ash glaze above
it. If I were working in electric, I would be doing majolica and
these ash glazes over Alberta slip glaze.
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