A "rock" with SCM and friends. No air compressor needed.

This is ^10R SCMO with Silicon Carbide 0.75%, Spotted Black, Hanna's Fake Ash, and Watercolor Green on Laguna Half and Half. There were two, but the other one was sold before I got a picture. It looked even better than this one.

The SCM was applied one layer with a sponge. The rest were sprayed on with a mouth sprayer like this:

This really makes it practical to do one or two pots at a time. If you use the compressor, booth and sprayer, the setup and cleanup takes so long you really need to do a bunch of pots to make it worth your while. I plan to make a few more of these with the ^6 glazes...

Another kind of yellow.

This is from layering a white glaze over an iron saturate with bone ash (Ohata). I was not expecting this color at all but I kind of like it.

More Yellow Salt over RIO

A large vase (about 14" tall) with Bone Ash and Wood Ash on the top.

A pitcher with Black (Tenmoku) on the bottom.

A couple altered bowls.

This one is Bone Ash over black underglaze (from Coyote Clay). Yellow salt on the bottom. Coleman Tea Dust inside.

This one is Celadon over black underglaze. Yellow salt on the bottom. Coleman Tea Dust inside.

More Nuka over Black (Tenmoku)

The top of the left vase is Hanna's Fake Ash over Yellow Salt.

Some Vases

The two on the left are Yellow Salt over red iron oxide. The one on the right is Bone Ash over red iron oxide. Clare did the "buttons" and the lines on the rightmost one.

Flambe over Yellow Salt

These are on porcelain. Currie Flambe has 0.5% Silicon Carbide to cause the copper to (mostly) turn red.

More fun with SiC

This was kind of interesting. Although the art center fires Cone 10 Reduction, the reduction doesn't generally happen at the right time for copper red glazes. Since I have a bunch of very fine Silicon Carbide, I decided to try a copper red. Because it's one of the few without Barium, Zinc, or Gerstley Borate, I picked Currie Flambe for my first attempt.

Currie Flambe

39.2		Minspar 200 (NC-4)
12		Whiting
27.2		Silica
0.4		Kaolin
21.2		Frit 3134
1		Tin
1		Copper Carb
2		Bentonite (I skipped, but shouldn't have)
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		To this I added:
0.5		Silicon Carbide 1600 mesh

I first tried this on the inside of a pair of espresso cups in white stoneware and the glaze turned out purple with green spots. It was interesting so I tried it on a large porcelain bowl. Same result exactly. The outside of the bowl is Yellow Salt. Kind of cool how the Flambe ran down into the Yellow Salt. There is some VC AA Green sponged over the Yellow Salt in case you look closely and are wondering where the green came from...

Yellow Salt glaze

I've recently been using a glaze called yellow salt. Here's some images.

Porcelain mugs. The dots are red iron oxide under the glaze. The runs are from Hanna's Fake Ash.

A stoneware pitcher. The inside and rim are Coleman Tea Dust. The lighter band is Nuka. The rest is yellow salt. The bottom textured part has red iron oxide under.

A mug in Laguna Los Altos Blend. The outside is a glaze called rust.

A bowl in Laguna Half and Half. The glaze was poured. The outside is Ohata, the runs are from Hanna's Fake Ash.

A bowl in Laguna Half and Half. The glaze was sprayed. The darker part is Hanna's Fake Ash sprayed over.

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More Nuka

These are all cone 10 reduction.

Although I'm not crazy about this cup, it is interesting to me. The cup is porcelain (Babu). The inside is Coleman Tea Dust and the crystals went crazy. Where the Nuka overlaps the tea dust on the rim and just inside definitely shows promise. You can also see how stark white Nuka is when not on top of something else. Even where the Nuka overlaps the Ohata (Kaki) the Nuka is barely discolored.

This is a pot that I really like. Coleman Tea Dust inside. Nuka over Tenmoku outside.

And finally, another couple bowls. Also Nuka over Tenmoku. The first one has Yellow Salt on the outside that was also on the top of the rim. You can see yellow spots where that moved down into the Nuka.

Nuka over Tenmoku, February 2012

Here's some Nuka over Tenmoku with Ohata on the outside. This is a gray/tan stoneware with the inside of the bowl covered in porcelain slip.

More ^10 Reduction, SCM + SiC

Strontium Crystal Magic + 0.75% Silicon Carbide

Strontium Crystal Magic + 0.75% Silicon Carbide

Strontium Crystal Magic for Orange + 0.75% Silicon Carbide

Strontium Crystal Magic for Orange + 0.75% Silicon Carbide

More ^10 Reduction

Some Porcelain Shino bowls. Penn State inside, Malcolm's Shino outside.

Rutile Blue with Copper Grape over the Rutile inside

Some High Fire Bowls

Here's a few bowls from the last kiln load. The shino bowls have really old (Mixed 12/26/10) Malcolm Davis that I put on really thick on the outside and Penn State on the inside. The others are Tenmoku with Nuka over on the outside.

More Nuka over Tenmoku

This time I dipped the Tenmoku, sponged some Nuka over, then finished the Nuka with a brush. These are Cone 10 reduction and all are Los Altos Blend clay except "Cups 2", which are Mile Hi Firethorn.

Vase (Tenmoku inside)

Cups 1 (VC AA Taffy inside)

Cups 2 (Nuka inside and porcelain slip around the base)

Bowls (Nuka inside the left, VC AA Taffy inside the right)

Nuka over Tenmoku

Here's the best of my first batch of Nuka glaze over Tenmoku glaze. The Tenmoku was dipped, the Nuka was brushed.

Next time I'll be adding a little more Nuka.

Results - Reduction Dropoff 5/11/11

Not too bad. You can see the "before" pics here:
I am much less happy with the iron bearing stoneware (Laguna Los Altos blend) this time - everything is brown. I assume it's because I used SCMO rather than SCM, which seemed to work much better on that clay body. I'm very happy with the Mile Hi Ceramics Birch and Dover. Everything on those bodies came out great except for blistering on the Rutile Blue liner glaze on the two big pots..

Pitcher and Cups

Cookie Jars 1

More after the jump...

Some traditional reduction glazes (not sprayed)

Big bowl - Inside is VC AA Taffy with a little line of Wood Ash just under the rim. Outside is Ohata.

Mugs - Tenmoku liner with very thin Gold Shino.

Reduction Dropoff 5/11/11

Dropped off a bunch of stuff for ^10R. These are all SCMO+0.75%SiC with Spotted Black and Hanna's Fake Ash Over. Most also with Water Color Green.
"Before" pics after the jump...

Results of the 2/14 drop-off

See this post for glaze details and "before" pics.


Pitchers - The left one is SCM with 1% SiC, Hanna's Fake Ash and mixed Water Color Green over.Coleman Tea Dust inside. The right one is mixed SCMO, Spotted Black, Hanna's Fake Ash, and mixed Water Color Green.

Pitcher has mixed SCMO, Spotted Black, and Hanna's Fake Ash. The "cookie jar" is SCM with 1% SiC, Hanna's Fake Ash and mixed Water Color Green over. Coleman Tea Dust inside.

The left pot has SCMO+0.5%SiC, Jen's Juicy Fruit, Hanna's Fake Ash and mixed Water Color Green over. The other is SCM with 1% SiC, Hanna's Fake Ash and mixed Water Color Green over.