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update on cleaning anagama snot and shino problems see photo photos

updated sat 10 jun 06

 

Chris Greenman on thu 8 jun 06


Thank you to all who responded to my two posts. I have posted some of my
recent fired work on cgreenman.zaadz.com I hope that link works. I have
cleaned the work with a stone, grinder and then finish with emory cloth. I
do not like to clean to much but to remove all that might distract. On the
shino problem I think that it most likely that I am reducing to early so
next time I fire I am going to try and restrain myself. Many thanks for
those that responded.

Please check out Ken Matsuzaki's new work on the Pucker Gallery Web site.


Chris
listening to Peter Rowan under the Alabama sunshine
could it get any better?

Charles Reese Salmon on thu 8 jun 06


I find that if, I start a medium reduction when orton cone 012 has its tip
touching and maintain this medium reduction through cone 08 (tip touching
or a little after) then, my shino glazes come out great. Some are
formulated to pin hole due to the high alumina content and some are
smooth. I can fire in a neutral to oxidizing environment to make quick
temperature gains as long as I start a medium progressing to heavy
reduction at orton cones 6->9. I can then lower the reduction to medium or
medium-light at cones 10->12.

Lee Love on fri 9 jun 06


On 6/8/06, Chris Greenman wrote:

> Please check out Ken Matsuzaki's new work on the Pucker Gallery Web site.

You can download the catalog here:

http://www.puckergallery.com/Catalogue.Matsuzaki.pdf

Quote from the begining of the catalog:

""In a time of political and economic uncertainty,
with a leader struggling to impose
adherence to his vision of order and progress,
discerning artists emerge to point a way out
of the chaos toward a new realm where creativity
fuses the spirits of man and nature.""
A hopeful speculation on cultural life at the beginning of
America=D5s new millennium? No=D1rather a description of what
took place during Japan=D5s Momoyama period, roughly 1575-
1625, "

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