At the moment I have some red terracotta test bowls in a bisque firing. I will get them out tomorrow. These have a white engobe on them and I will then need to test some clear glazes on them to figure out what glaze to use or whether the engobe does what I want it to do - which is stay white and one the bowl.
There are a few clear glaze options with this one
1. Cesco mid fired clear - have tested this before and is ok but not really excited
2. Chrysanthos mid fire clear - haven't tested but its at TAFE
3. My own - C1 - this hasn't come up great with the terracotta ts not overly transparant (can be seen in an earlier blog)
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| New texture for origami bowl |
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| Brown terracotta bowl test and some little test ribbons in front to test some clear glazes etc... |
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| Another testure for my origami bowls |
Also in the bisque firing is some clay shrinkage test which will need to be documented.
There are some red terracotta mugs that will need to be glazed with a clear glaze or something!!
At TAFE is a white clay test that Chris gave me that will need to be bisqued
More work is needed on my non functional project - I have discovered two glazes I will use on the objects but it would be good to have a few more glazes Slate Dry Blue and Tomatoe red - test bowl posted earlier
Need to do a test with Slate Dry Blue and Tomato Red brushed on 5B and fired to cone 6 as the last bowl test I did was dipped. I probably won't be able to dip the pieces I am working on by maybe able to spray?? Talk to Chris
Need to make and bisque some terracotta tests and some BRT
BRT project is a plate with a crawling white glaze
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