January 18, 2010
Super Salt Glaze and Slip Recipes: An Excerpt From Our New Free Download The Salt Glaze Surface
Today,
I am presenting a Will Ruggles and Douglass Rankin slip recipe and tips
for salt firing, excerpted from our latest free download
The Salt Glaze Surface: A Guide to Salt Glazing and Firing.
In addition, potter Cathi Jefferson explains how she used these recipes
combined with terra sigilatta and Andrew Wong's Luster Glaze to make
the beautiful checkered surface shown here.
October 26, 2009
It Slices, It Dices! Some Simple Glaze Tests Reveal a Ceramic Glaze That Can Do it All (well, almost)
Kristina Bogdanov, who teaches at Ohio Wesleyan College in Delaware,
Ohio, was intrigued when she realized that one of the class glazes
seemed to fire well at cone 10 reduction in a gas kiln, cone 6 in an
electric kiln, and cone 9 reduction in a soda kiln without any change
in the recipe. So she ran the glaze through a battery of tests to see
just how versatile it was. Today, in an excerpt from the 2010 Buyers
Guide for Ceramic Arts, Kristina explains her testing process and the
results.
September 16, 2009
The Happy Accident: How a Ceramic Artist Turned the Product of a Kiln Firing Mishap into a Gem
Today potter Mary Cay shares the results of her two years of trial and error trying to cultivate "kiln jewels." She also shares the glaze recipes and instruction you'll need to make your own glaze kiln jewels.