Glad to be a part of the group
Oct 23, 2015 0:42:43 GMT -6
Post by mikemangion on Oct 23, 2015 0:42:43 GMT -6
Hi everyone, I'm glad to finally be a part of this big group.
I'm Mike Mangion, a few members already know me as a one legged Aussie potter that is trying to develop his skills with crystalline glazes.
The first time I got to try my hand at making and firing a couple of crystallines was back in 1996 but never had the chance to try it again till 2005 when I finally had my own kiln to work with and chose to use Fara's Bory1 recipe to which I added green Malachite and even though the glaze was servilely crazed and over nucleated it produced a pleasant green apple colour.
After a broken wrist and a few other disruptions I returned to the craft in which I fell in love with so long ago, I felt I needed to start from scratch as I was not happy with the clay bodies that were commercially available so after producing a reasonable porcelain body with the help of Jessie Hull I then needed to find a couple of recipes that would fit and produce just the right amount of crystals, lucky for me that was Peter Ilsley's Dusty Rose base and Gold Stuff.
I'm now in the phase of developing a colour pallet using these two bases and if I could work out how to insert some images I would happily show you guys, but this link hopefully show you 3 variations of the Dusty Rose base.
Glaze > Crystalline, Δ11 4 recipes
I'm Mike Mangion, a few members already know me as a one legged Aussie potter that is trying to develop his skills with crystalline glazes.
The first time I got to try my hand at making and firing a couple of crystallines was back in 1996 but never had the chance to try it again till 2005 when I finally had my own kiln to work with and chose to use Fara's Bory1 recipe to which I added green Malachite and even though the glaze was servilely crazed and over nucleated it produced a pleasant green apple colour.
After a broken wrist and a few other disruptions I returned to the craft in which I fell in love with so long ago, I felt I needed to start from scratch as I was not happy with the clay bodies that were commercially available so after producing a reasonable porcelain body with the help of Jessie Hull I then needed to find a couple of recipes that would fit and produce just the right amount of crystals, lucky for me that was Peter Ilsley's Dusty Rose base and Gold Stuff.
I'm now in the phase of developing a colour pallet using these two bases and if I could work out how to insert some images I would happily show you guys, but this link hopefully show you 3 variations of the Dusty Rose base.
Glaze > Crystalline, Δ11 4 recipes
