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Etruscan Horse Sculpture
Stoneware and stoneware paper clay, cone six oxidation. Glaze: Chris Clark's strontium matte green.
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Comment by Norm Stuart on March 3, 2013 at 8:51pm
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The mustard-yellow with hints of green, circled in red, is my result from this same glaze on Laguna Big White clay.
I've made hundreds of glazes but this one mystifies me.
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For your curiosity I found this very different photo of allegedly the same glaze on this webpage:
http://www.gladstoneclayworks.ca/wordpress/?cat=4501
Rather than the bronzed metallic look on your horse, this photo looks more like a Ron Roy Calcium Semi-Matte Spearmint from Mastering Cone 6 Glazes. There must magic involved with this glaze I'm missing.
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Please tell me how you fired this glaze. Do you use a particular cooling ramp? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Chris Clarke's Strontium Matt appears to be a slight variation of Pete Pinnell's Weathered Bronze Green, using 5% copper oxide instead of 5% copper carbonate. Both are beautiful but all they make in my electric kiln is a dull yellow.
Currently I'm holding at cone 5 for a hour and have a 50 F / hour cool between 1800F and 1500F. I've also tried a witness cone 6 without a hold.
This is the recipe I have for this glaze. There must be something I'm doing differently.
Weathered Bronze Green ^6
60.0% Nepheline Syenite
20.0% Strontium Carbonate
10.0% Ball Clay–Old Mine #4
9.0% Silica
5.0% Copper Carbonate
5.0% Titanium Dioxide
1.0% Lithium Carbonate
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as mentioned above, it is chris clark's strontium matte. the recipe is on the web if you google it. will also try to edit the caption on the photo for you. thanks for the comment. t-7
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Love this horse and I really like the celtic knot on it.
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Glaze: Chris Clarke's Strontium Matte.
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Whoops, sorry. I'd be happy to. They should be on there soon.
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plsease----- could you mention the glazes used under the photos so the rest of us could see what and how the glazes react
thank you
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