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Comment by Kathy Ransom on January 5, 2014 at 7:32am
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After I asked about the glaze I looked at your page and saw your recipe. My kiln is toast so I've bought another used one and am waiting for an electronic controller, then have a few pages of glazes to test. Your turquoise is one of those tests.
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Comment by Maak Bow on January 4, 2014 at 6:59pm
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Kathy.
The glaze recipe is on my page. I posted it after these images. The secret is how much glaze to use. I mixed the dry ingredients 1kg to 1-1.25 Litres of water. Thinly applied this glaze is light and smooth and if fired too high will go glossy. When thickly applied it gets a better depth to the colour and a texture. If too thick it can bubble. I put a small amount of glass in the bottom of this bowl to mask the possibilty of bubbles in the bottom where the glaze can pool. Glaze was poured in slowly till full and poured out fast hence thicker at the bottom. If you take too long the bottom saturates and the glaze then gets thinner. The black glaze was applied second and was poured over the upside down bowl which was supported genty from the inside. The runs inside are where the black glaze has tracked up the inside while flowing off the upside down bowl rim, a happy accident
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What glaze did you use to get this wonderful turquoise? I really like the way the black glaze drips into the turquoise on the inside.
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