High Bridge Pottery Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Fireborn Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 Beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolieo Posted October 8, 2015 Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 I want to visit! Can I use google earth to preview ? Simply amazing, how many test tiles around are there, or should I ask how many firings instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted October 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2015 It is probably a years worth of glaze testing. 15 to 25 firings, around there. Wish I had the time to do more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Fireborn Posted October 9, 2015 Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 I want to visit! Can I use google earth to preview ? Simply amazing, how many test tiles around are there, or should I ask how many firings instead? You should do this for your facebook people Joel. It would be a crazy cool video if you could make it seem like you were driving down a glaze street taking turns down color avenues etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted October 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 There is one thing I learnt at university studying animation, it takes a very long time to make something look terrible Very cool idea but I could never do it justice. The photo took me 20 min setup, an iphone panoramic and instagram filters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pres Posted October 9, 2015 Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 Put it in pinterest. would be posted all over! Nice pic, and a lot of work. best, Pres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Coyle Posted October 12, 2015 Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 So how many base glazes do you use and in what combinations? I have run a lot of tests myself, but find I seldom add more than one or two to my base set, and I may also phase out one or two. I have five glazes that I have used for ten years and still love them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted October 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2015 Right now I have half a base glaze that I am working on. I have a few recipes sourced and tweaked from tutors about two years ago but they seldom get used. Fell out with all my glazes after they would never come out the same twice and decided to find out what all my materials do. That is what the picture is above, plus many random recipe tests before the Currie tiles. I am much more interested in the experience of doing the testing than the results. Working with each material gives valuable insight into many more things than final fired surface. Some tests will make it onto pots but first I am designing my 'transparent base' that will be a good all rounder. That is the half finished glaze. I did my first ever melt test yesterday with it and with the addition of .25g Cobalt Carb and 2.5g Red Iron Oxide. I imagined it would be far more fluid. I really thought about going back to university to study Ceramics, but with the cost it is cheaper for me to work part-time and learn how I want in the studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberta12 Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Great work Joel!!! Thank you for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Just wondering how many of us are in the compulsive obsessive range? Note the inclusive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I have always felt people too easily diagnose themselves with OCD. There are many reasons to be obsessive and compulsive but most people are not in fear and dread for their life if they don't do something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Yeh, Joel, a passionate interest can easily be mistaken for lots and I did not mean to make light of a very debilitating condition. On reading many posts here I get the feeling that there runs a thread or pos. a river of ability/need to pursue knowledge that is exciting to witness. Would you have guessed that on starting work with clay that you would be spending may hours not making pots but testing the properties of chemicals? I find this area of work, i.e. pottery or what ever name you wish to call it, so exciting as it covers so many areas of required knowledge. This also leads to wondering why the education systems of so many countries separate the arts from the Sciences at an early age. Thanks for posting all your results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted October 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 I am sure you were not making light of it There is no black or white with how you use the brain. Just a pet hate of mine how OCD gets used to explain cleaning the house or enjoying things in their 'right' place. I have always loved chemistry but never knew their was so much in ceramics when I started. Ceramics is a great area of study as you say, many different skills and techniques required so lots to keep you stimulated and explore. I am yet to find anywhere near as much beauty in the arts as I find in science but ceramics is a good mix of creating and creation(science/universe) Glaze testing makes me feel like the earth. Reading up on geology and how magma/lava crystallise into rocks and then making these rocks my own lava flows on rocky pots! Love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrgpots Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 It makes a great abstract of a ancient city with the shadows and light dancing on its windows. As Jolieo said, it looks like it would have GPS coordinates, somewhere on the Arabian peninsula. How many workable grazes are you using from these tests? Jed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantay Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 I think most people would be happier if they all had something they were as passionate about as we are about clay? I feel a lack of purpose leads to a lot of unhappiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolieo Posted October 31, 2015 Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 It's only ocd if you do the compulsion for the compulsion's sake and not for the outcome . I have done sooo many color charts on watercolors and oils,pastels . Everything does not react the same even in those mediums, especially with each other. My biggest frustration was having the end result not match what I was going for and I Han no idea how to get there. Those charts at least gave me a jumping educated guess. Still love that photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pottery59 Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 I have a very basic question as I am a beginner. While taking a class at the local community college, no one wore gloves to handle their bisqueware. I am reading on some 'how to' blogs that wearing gloves is an absolute MUST so as to not transfer oils to the bisqueware. I don't believe I have encountered an issue with this, although my firings do not always have perfect outcomes. Since your discussion started about glaze, I thought I might be able to ask here. Thank you, fellow potters, from someone feeling like an intern. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted December 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 I have never worn gloves when handling bisque, if my hands could possibly be oily/greasy then some soap and water gets rid of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 you might question the blog writers as to why they wear gloves, maybe they use a lot of hand lotion. i have never worn gloves but i guess that if someone wants to dip a bisque piece into a toxic glaze (!!!) for a long time, gloves might be a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugaboo Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 I don't wear gloves either and I'm allergic to a lot of stuff. I don't go swimming in the glaze buckets either but do get glaze on my fingers. With bisque I just wash my hands like always before starting to work and then I dip each piece in clean water to rinse it off. I set the pieces aside as I stir up the glaze and everything is ready to go by the time I am done. I've not had any issues with oils from hands causing glazing issues. Wonder why they think there is enough oil on their hands to cause problems? Maybe they work in a really hot environment and sweat a lot? T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pottery59 Posted December 11, 2015 Report Share Posted December 11, 2015 Thanks for your replies. I will continue gloveless unless a problem arises in the future that I think may be caused from my hands. If my hands were any drier (from working in clay) I think they would crack and fall off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted December 13, 2015 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 Some glazes are mildly caustic in the bucket. Nothing major, but if your hands are dry and cracking from clay, it can make a bad situation worse. If you have cracks on your hands, you are more likely to absorb stuff that maybe isn't good for you long term. Gloves are a good idea. We used to get the good heavy hand cream and oil up before putting the (nitrile or vinyl) gloves on for a day of glaze testing. Poor girl's hand treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 I can calculate covalent and ionic bonds without having to mix anything. You might find quantitative kinetic reactions and formulation an interesting topic. Aha....... you have been studying well. That should open up how to get some really nice coloring of the background and macro-crystals when you know what will enter "first" into the developing silicate crystals. Welcome aboard the forums also. best, .....................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glazenerd Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 TY John: After 42 years of building hospitals, high rises, and houses: it is actually nice to learn something new. In 2007, I was in antique store in Williamsburg. VA. staring at this piece that had macro crystals on it. Told the owner I wondered how many hours this artist took hand painting these perfectly formed patterns: not realizing it was a specialty glaze. Spent 2007 until 2011 typing in keyword searches trying to figure out what the crystals were. Finally I typed in macro crystals, and on the third page I came across a website of a potter: clicked it: finally!!! Spent the rest of 2011 and early 2012 reading, studying, researching the metes and bounds of what was required to make them. In early 2012, I spent my RV savings buying the kilns, equipment, and supplies to begin my big adventure: which included building a detached 26 x 44 studio with 400 amp service to run everything. By late summer of 2012 I began to realize I was dumber than a box of rocks about clay, forming techniques, and glaze calculations. Out of the 100 tiles I fired in my first load (attempt), one came out with a very small crystal. Of the sixty or so books I bought about clay, glaze, equipment, kilns, minerals, chemistry, along with nearly 1000-1200 hours a year of studying since 2012: I can grow a rather mean crystal. Was given several old kilns that I took apart, studied, and reassembled just to learn how to service a kiln. Spent a day at the local supply house learning how to make my own elements. At the current rate of learning, sometime in 2018 I might actually know something. Glaze Nerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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