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Marcia Selsor

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  1. 23 hours ago, Ben xyz said:

    Thanks Marcia for sharing w/ beautiful results! Enjoyed seeing all the variations. One thing I'm not clear on is the product name you use on your brushes before using latex? Sounded like a good tip.

     

    23 hours ago, Ben xyz said:

    Thanks Marcia for sharing w/ beautiful results! Enjoyed seeing all the variations. One thing I'm not clear on is the product name you use on your brushes before using latex? Sounded like a good tip.

     

  2. On 8/12/2023 at 3:55 PM, Ben xyz said:

    Wondering now if liquid latex (or wax) could be rolled over a plastic stencil with a small disposable paint roller as a resist layer. Need to do some tests. 

    I use liquid latex resist. I don't think what you are suggesting would work, but I could be wrong. Try it and see what happens..

    Marcia

  3. On 9/30/2019 at 7:57 PM, glazenerd said:

    Marcia:

    Speaking of crystalline glaze- I read a thesis paper on crystalline glaze written by a student at SIU-C in 1973. As a historical perspective: 1973 was 25 years before any formal books on crystalline glaze was published ( Macro Crystalline Glaze by Peter Isley) I have read it several times: the insights and theorem are well within the boundaries of modern crystalline chemistry. The author of this thesis paper was YOU.

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    written on a typewriter.!

    Marcia

  4. The Archie Bray is 280 miles from Red Lodge. 560 round trip. I prefer to go up the Musselshell river valley and down Deep creek to Towsend avoiding much of the interstate. It can be done in a day and the drive is beautiful .I am convinced I live in Paradise but Sue Tirrell really lives in Paradise Valley!

    -not to mention visiting the Bray and looking at the gallery, classes and studios.

    I do sometimes ship my clay with others to Billings and pick it up there. 

     

    Marcia

  5. Pres, 

    first what makes me think "I love this" is usually a good comfortable handle and the texture of a glaze. BUT your comment about keeping bugs out o honey reminded me of a honey pot I saw in a old museum in Pontevedra, Spain. There was a ridge in the shoulder of the pot for water creating a mote . It kept ants out o the honey because they wouldn't cross the water barrier. I thought it was brilliant. I loved the ingenuity of the pot.

    Marcia

  6. On 10/27/2019 at 9:26 AM, liambesaw said:

    Works really well, I was working with toluene (really volatile paint thinner) and I couldn't smell it at all.  Really happy with that, it allows me to work inside as it gets colder and wetter. (Although it rapidly sucks all the heat outside)

     

     

    I may have to spray raku glaze inside. Will build a plastic tent on my drying rack. Low tonight will be MINUS 3 F. Too early for this to happen! 16" of snow on Sunday and 7-9 inches expected tonight. Got a bisque firing done yesterday.

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  7. On 10/13/2019 at 5:22 PM, liambesaw said:

    Holy cow mark, you never stop do you?

     

    I spent this weekend building a work table / fume hood for my work with soluble salts and lustres.  Sulphur, and mercaptans (thiols) are part of synthesizing a lustre overglaze and these are some of the smelliest compounds on earth.  I did an open air run of some palladium mercaptan a few weeks ago and you could smell it from blocks away.  I decided instead of subjecting my neighborhood to a somewhat regular barrage of rotting smells that I'd go ahead and do it proper.  A 350 cu ft per minute fan pulled through an activated carbon filter rated to match.  It won't get rid of the smell entirely but will trap a lot of it.

    At least that's the hope.  This combined with an acid gas face mask will hopefully keep me better protected from hydrogen sulfide and other byproducts that are unhealthy to breathe as well.

    I know it's pretty janky as far as lab equipment is concerned but it actually works so I consider it a win!

     

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    I like that exhaust filter. I could use one. I use a vapor mask for the chlorides and sulphates I am using. 

    Marcia

  8. My Botanist friend took a group on a nature hike  along Fox Creek and up a mountain. Most of the group had a good background in Botany. I was along for the wildlife observance and new material for patterns of leaves and plants. My old Faux celadon is at a good stage. I had made my friend a watercolor brush holder and glazed it with my old bucket of glaze which seemed to be at a perfect consistency. I carved that vase before my Obvara class in July. I am going to carve some mugs for NCECA and elsewhere.

    Thanks for the compliment. I'm enjoying my time back in Montana. 

    Best wishes to you Pres.

    Marcia

  9. I brought in my herbs two days ago before the frost hit. My plants sit in my window. I can also see the ski runs on Red Lodge Mountain.

    My cats and dogs come in and visit regularly. My studio is in a overside 2 car garage of the laundry room. It is very quiet here and I work in peace. I am posting a photo of a hanging pot drying to stein up and continue to form. It is a funny technique but I have saved some larger porcelain pots this way. It takes a few hours. I continue working on other pots while a clapping one regains it's strength!

    marcia

     

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  10. Liam's answer is very similar to mine. I am pursuing another rabbit hole...soluble salts. I began working in clay 53 years ago. I started working with ceramic sagger about 20 years ago. Then foil saggers using soluble salts. Since May 2018 I have been focused on Soluble saltsand exploring low fire temperature and varying firing temperatures and processes. I also explore Obvara in warmer weather as a fun workshop topic. I have a copy of Arne Ase's watercolor on Porcelain which discusses using soluble salts in higher temperatures. It is a good resource for my exploration . BUT he is not environmentally aware that these hazadous chemicals can no longer be tossed down the drain. I am experimenting with salt that is used to melt sidewalk ice...both Magnesium Chloride and calcium chloride neither of which is considered toxic.

    Marcia

  11. I have been working with Coleman Porcelain to use in Obvara as well as sagger and soluble salts. This is not fired to maturity. Porousity is needed for the absorption in the lower temperature.I have been testing numerous ^6 porcelains to use in this process also. I have Linsay Porcelain ^6 from Archie Bray  Photo#1  and a ^6 Plainsman Translucent porcelain for actually firing to ^6. #2 was fired yesterday using soluble salts.I fire soluble salts from 1250F to 1700 depending on the colors I am trying to get.

     

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  12. On 1/3/2019 at 7:52 AM, glazenerd said:

    My personal favorite- Taxtile Doat. - most crystalline glazers count him as the godfather of this speciality glaze.

    http://history.ucpl.lib.mo.us/results.asp?search=Doat%2C+Taxile+Maximin%2C+1851-1939

    check out the 4 foot wide porcelain bowl he threw in 1910. 2 assistants turned the wheel. 

    Help found the University Pottery (University City, Mo.) 1910. Proceeds funded the Woman's' Sufrage Movement.

    Teachers - he also wrote some of the earliest curriculum for Art Ed. 

    Have toured what is now called: University Museum.  

    Taxile Doat is one of my favorites too. He came from the Sevres Porcelain factory in Paris at the invitation of Adelaide Robineau who's the Editor of Keramos and founder of the Syracuse National which established the collection at the Everson Museum. Robineau and Doat worked together in St. Louis at the University in the teens (1900 teens).

     

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