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Comment by Andra Hughes on November 20, 2011 at 7:21pm

We have a Shino that we can use to dip....it's a brown shino, not their light.  I may try your method.  I don't have Iron Red...I've never tried Standard and just found out recently that you can only buy them in dry form??  But I may try your method with another color in place of the Iron Red.  I love in particular the mug in the picture along with the lower part of a bowl, maybe a colander?  Also like the two mugs but my favorite was that first one in the picture with the bowl.  I am using a white clay now but it's Lagune B-mix and that's a smooth white so maybe I'll get something similar!  Thanks for your time in replying...

Comment by Cindy C. on November 20, 2011 at 5:25pm

Thank you, and I don't mind the questions!  I used Coyote's regular Shino.  I do have Light Shino as well, and it's much lighter, almost like a cream.  Funny thing about these particular ones is that after I dipped iron red (which isn't thick), I dipped it part way down with Shino, then brushed the rest.  That's why the colour variation near the bottom.  The only reason why I did this was because it was my first batch of Shino that I mixed, and was worried that it was going on too thick, and would run.  But my next firing,  the set of mugs which have been recently posted, I dipped all in Shino.  Brushing and dipping make a huge difference with this Shino. I use Tucker's Clay, Smooth White most of the time.  Hope this helps! 

Comment by Andra Hughes on November 20, 2011 at 6:12am

The Iron Red and Shino are beautiful.  I used to use Coyote but had trouble brushing and I only had their pints.  Did you also dip into the shino and was it their light shino or just regular shino?  I've been trying to find a shino I like and may buy enough of Coyote to dip.  Sorry for all the quesitons but I love this and have really been working to find a good Shino.   Also, if you dipped Iron Red and also then dipped over it with the shino, I guess they were pretty thin.  I worked on a shino combination this weekend and two dips were way too thick no matter how thin they seemed.  One last question.  Do you know what clay you used?  Thanks so much...Beautiful work!

Comment by Cindy C. on November 9, 2011 at 6:47pm

Thank you, the rim was first dipped in Iron Red (Standard Ceramics), then the whole piece in Shino.  

Comment by Carl Ray Crutchfield on November 9, 2011 at 4:12pm

Beautiful glaze effect.  Is this Shino?