Ginny C Posted February 28, 2015 Report Share Posted February 28, 2015 I've discovered that the Spectrum glaze called Textured Kiwi Fruit breaks into three colors over deeply incised patterns. I love it and want to ask if anyone knows of other commercial glazes that break this nicely. Here's a photo: (I hope... I've had to shrink it so small I don't know if the colors will be evident.) Does anyone know of others that would break this effectively but in other color families? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavy Fire Studios Posted February 28, 2015 Report Share Posted February 28, 2015 What temperature are you working in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted February 28, 2015 Report Share Posted February 28, 2015 Not sure on commercial glazes but I would think adding 2-5% rutile to a glaze would give some of what you are looking for. I have a base transparent that I add 1% cobalt carb and 5% rutile that is blue/green textured where thick and breaks to brown where thin because of the rutile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavy Fire Studios Posted February 28, 2015 Report Share Posted February 28, 2015 Ooooh! You think that'd work in a lowfire glaze, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted February 28, 2015 Report Share Posted February 28, 2015 Not sure Guinea as I have never made a low fire glaze or really looked into them. I would think it could do something but don't quote me on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 That's a nice glaze.. Amaco has a line called Potters Choice cone 5-6, for short PC.. They are called "float glazes" and really take to layering ... Have you tried that glaze on a more vertical form? Im wondering if you would get similar results, on a flat/textured surface PC glazes will break/float and pool very nice.. On slick vertical surfaces it will float and you get different colors from it.. I have 1 glaze I get about 5 colors from... hard to tame by itself though, but works good with a under coat... Her glaze is ^4-6 / Spectrum calls it a reactive glaze ... Really similar to Amaco's PC Float glazes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRankin Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 I use Amaco Artists Choice glazes for low fire ceramics. They are cone 05 and look really nice on red clays but not so much on white clays. - Paul R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulR Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 Spectrum makes quite a few "textured" glazes like Kiwi Fruit. Just google spectrum textured glazes and you will see them. I use about a dozen different one's and they are excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginny C Posted March 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 Let's see. I fire to cone 5 or 6 in an electric kiln. Currently using Laguna's B-Mix cone five. This glaze (Spectrum's Textured Kiwi Fruit) is also lovely on flat surfaces, where it is a subtle mixture of the green and blue, but on the deep texture, it is quite different. The outside of the pictured dish is entirely different. I have used a lot of commercial glazes and I often layer them, but I haven't seen quite this distinct separating into several colors emphasizing the carved details. Many of the reactive glazes do show more than one color, but not so precisely. There...that's a lot of words, but I hope you see what I'm after. Of course I could make lots of textured tiles and buy lots more glazes and try them all out...but I'd much rather ask for others to report their experiences here!! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSC Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 Alot of cone 5-6 glazes break over texture. Amaco's potter's choice for sure. Some lagunas do also but not advertised as such its a trial and error. A lot of coyote glazes break also. There a few spectrum glazes i like but quite a few run too much so use care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallshop Posted March 2, 2015 Report Share Posted March 2, 2015 I use a lot of Amaco's potters choice glazes and they have a ton of options for layering and breaking over texture. I also recently stumbled onto a facebook group where a lot of people post different and new layering combinations, it had provided me with a lot of ideas https://www.facebook.com/groups/potterschoiceex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantay Posted March 2, 2015 Report Share Posted March 2, 2015 When I first started out, I used a number of the Laguna Morroccan Sand glazes. Many of the glazes would change when breaking. Unfortunetly most of the sample test tiles on the websites don't show it very well. One glaze I esp. liked was Cappacino. It was finiky, didn't work on anything with high iron in it, but very beautiful. These are very affordable, esp. if purchased dry. Axner had the best pricing I could find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy S. Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Coyote Clay has a line of 'shino' glazes that do this sort of thing. Their 'mottled blue' also breaks to different colors. They're all ^6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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