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Rusty Relics
Cone 6 Oil can pots. Floating Red Glaze but sprayed on lightly and perhaps a little underfired (did not hold at Cone 6). I was expecting them to come out a little dryer to achieve a rusty look, but exceeded my expectations. They even feel rusty.
Albums: Cone 6
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Comment by Jan Wallace on February 28, 2012 at 9:45pm
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Thank you Kathy and Sally. I am amazed by the variations we can achieve from the one glaze simply by different approaches to application, firing etc. Hope you had a productive day in the studio. Louis, I had a look at Tim See's website. I Love his work. I had never heard of a 'steampunk' before, so was also educational LOL.
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I love your oil can pots! You really got a rusted look with your glaze from spraying lightly. I've spenyT most of my day brushing glazes on because I wanted a particular effect but after coffee I'm going to spray the remainder of the bisque I have on hand in a fraction of the time. Of course it takes 3 times as long to prepare, then clean up!
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Thanks everyone. I will take some better photos and one with closer detail of the glaze. It's a rainy day here today, so I will get onto that today whilst stuck indoors. I have used the 'Floating Red' glaze before but achieved a very different result (see my photo gallery) on a couple of small teapots. One which looks a little like an oil can as George's comments state under the pic. I used the glaze again as I liked the fact that this glaze gave me a variegated, rusty look despite being a little shiny. BUT, this time by 'happy accident' i sprayed a lighter coat of glaze and as I said before, perhaps a cooler top temp (no soak at cone 6), made a VERY matt/dry rusty glaze. Hope I can achieve this again. I just love it when things turn out well with pieces that we spend alot of time and thought on. So many times with this craft, I am quietly dissapointed. I still have so much to learn with glazing as its all fairly new to me even though I have been potting for years. That is how we learn the most though, isn't it. Louis, I will have a look at Tim's work. Sounds very interesting. Denise, the shed they are photographed in front of, is my studio. There are photos in my photo gallery. My husband and I built it from alot of recycled building material to look like an old shed. Inside, the rear wall is made from an old rusting corrugated iron which came from an shed in our local area so has history as well which I love. Its the favourite part of my studio.
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Great effect they look like a bunch of old oil cans rusting away outside of a garden shed. Denice
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GREAT work!.....can you show a more detailed photo of the finish? There is an artist (Tim See) that you should check out...he make steam punks and oil cans of a similar nature.
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Very nice work, they make a great display together.
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Thanks George, they are very addictive. I want to make MORE!!! lol
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Comment by George Lewter on February 27, 2012 at 8:14pm
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These are great, Jan. Congratulations!
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