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Potters & Sculptors - Making Rock from Mud
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Comment by Nadine Mercader on May 27, 2014 at 8:13am
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Larry is correct! Very difficult to make a living as an artist of any kind. Particularly hard in a retirement zone, fixed income recipients don't spend.
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Comment by Lawrence Weathers on May 26, 2014 at 6:45pm
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You are an artist well beyond your years. Be cautious about going professional. Art can be great fun, but is difficult to make a decent living.
40 years ago I too thought about being a potter. One day I walked into the studio and one of the instructors that I had seen doing amazing things was off in a corner throwing cups off the hump. Being young and naïve, I wandered over and asked why he was doing that. He looked up and said "that's what sells". Since I was sure I did not want to become a cup making machine, my enthusiasm for graduate school increased markedly.
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Comment by Dane Wisner on May 26, 2014 at 6:33pm
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All my glazes are commercial, dipped and poured. I find that the firing schedule and thickness of glaze plays just as big a roll as the glaze itself.
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When you place extra glaze, or a layer of another glaze, on the rim of a bowl gravity causes it to run down toward the center of the bowl. And if that glaze contains rutile, or granular rutile or ilmenite, then these particles leave streamers in their wake. Of course the glaze will need a silica to alumina ratio high enough, and enough flux, to become fluid like honey at temperature.
That is unless you get a dud bag of rutile like we're dealing with now which seems to be ground too fine - or something. This dud Rutile makes glazes uniformly opaque just as if we had added fine-mesh titanium dioxide. I'm still not sure what the problem is.
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How do you get runny effects like this?
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Comment by clayhazelman on May 25, 2014 at 8:28pm
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I love the movement of the glaze. rutile over woo blue?
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Glazing is very nice, commercial or your own? Sprayed?
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