A few
years back, I decided to try to develop a clear glaze that would fire to cone
02 or there about with the sole purpose of using it as a base for colored glazes.
I would add red iron oxide, cobalt, copper and manganese carbonate & cobalt
to try to produce an amber, blue, green and purple translucent or transparent
glaze. The other criterion was to use frit 3124 instead of 3110 as I have
inherited quite a bit of the 3124 and using the 3110 on a regular basis was
getting a bit costly. The base glaze is composed of 3124, flint and ball clay
with the additions of the various colorants to produce a good transparent, rich
surface. The plus side to developing these glazes was; it is easy to fit small
colored glaze pieces into the kiln when I am firing terra cotta and the pots
look quite a bit different than the Abstrakt Resist, carved Tebori and black
and white slip works.
Illustrated
is a terra cotta teabowl that was first decorated in black and white slip and
then glazed over in a copper blue glaze and fired to cone 02. The verses
pattern under this glaze gives it an entirely different look and feel then when
done in my Abstrakt Resist.
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