Cone 6 Triaxial Glaze Test
While it may look like I’m getting ready to bowl with my ceramic materials, I haven’t quite lost my mind yet! With the help from my friend and ceramic’s mentor, Mary Cay, I performed a more complicated glaze test this past week. It’s called a “Triaxial Blend” and I used Robin Hopper’s text, The Ceramic Spectrum (page 96) as a guide.
The idea behind the testing is that you get 21 different variations on 3 base glazes which opens up quite a new world of color development to the ceramic artist. It was a pretty cool experiment. For base glaze “A” I used a Val Cushing cone 6 glaze, VC Satin White Liner, pg. 130. For base glaze “B” I used another Val Cushing cone 6 glaze, D base pg. 123 and added copper carb at 3% and cobalt carb at 1%. For base glaze “C” I used Denton 6, pg. 282 from the Electric Kiln Ceramics Book and added copper carb at 2.5%. There’s a few keepers, but I’ll need to look at them a little more closely in the next week.
Meanwhile back in the real world, my Epson printer died! BooHoo. It’s been acting funny for the past month and last night when I went to print an invoice for someone, just blank pages. I tried cleaning the print heads and all the other maintenance tasks and all I get is yellow ink. Not very practical. BTW, I also replaced all the ink cartridges so it’s not low ink levels. This printer has lasted 2 1/2 years and I’m convinced that unfortunately they’re made to be disposable! Off to Costco this afternoon to replace it with another. Sigh…
Have a good week everyone!
