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Potters & Sculptors - Making Rock from Mud
Bisque assembly - and Glazed
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Comment by Norm Stuart on March 3, 2013 at 6:44pm
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I've seen photos of Pinnell Weathered Bronze Green. The second uses 5% copper oxide instead of copper carbonate and is listed as Chris Clarke Strontium Matte. Wildly different but beautiful. Perhaps they don't use a slow-cooling program - all I get is dull yellow matte.
http://www.gladstoneclayworks.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/weath...
http://cone6pots.ning.com/photo/etruscan-horse-sculpture?xg_source=...
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I saw a lot of artistic potential in the bisque . . . but once glazed in 'realistic colors' . . . it's not what I had in mind.
This is an in-progress photo of the top of my two piece fountain, trying to find a low-fire remedy for Pete Pinell's Weathered Bronze Green which has never turned out for me. I made a small test batch yesterday with Lithium Flouride instead of Lithium Carbonate and it's still a dud no matter the firing schedule.
Weathered Bronze Green ^6 Pete Pinnell
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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I like this manner of presentation before/after and your detailed information regarding glazing. I struggle with knowing how I will glaze a piece before I make it, although I have been told that is what one should do, so I ofter have a piece of bisque that I ponder over continually until I can decide what I want to do with it.
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An attempt at a self-portrait with porcelain. Assembled from three pieces of dry greenware, and with this stress porcelain likes to crack. Various ^06 glazes over ^6. The whites in the eyes are high fire glaze fired at low fire. Copper saturation glaze in background with cobalt and celadon buttons. Hare's Fur shirt obscured detailts, with mason stain skin color.
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