Arrowmont Blue Green – A Juicy Glaze
This Is A Gorgeous Glaze
I am pretty happy that my first attempts at making cone 6 glazes have actually worked!
This was one glaze that I tried to scale up. I don’t make any glaze until I have made my 100-gram test batch first. Fire it. See if I like it then fire again on a piece to see how it works with curves, the vertical and horizontal surfaces, if it breaks and if it crazes etc.
Only then do I make a larger batch. With all this testing – on the final batch – things still happen. IE crazing in this case. I couldn’t see it until I looked closer at the test tile after it was photographed. And in this case, the color didn’t come out exactly as I hoped but it’s OK. At the time of writing this, I have NOT tested the large batch on a final piece. I will post an update on this page once I finally fire a test piece.
- The Mug Image – This is the glaze tested on a vertical surface from the initial 100-gram test batch. It really is quite stunning.
- Test Tile – Here is the test tile from the batch that was scaled up. If you look closely, it’s crazed where it hasn’t crazed prior. I need to ask John 🙂 what’s happening.
Arrowmont Blue Green
John Britt Recipe
- 44.6 Neph Sy
- 13.3 Silica
- 11.1 Whiting
- 13.3 Kaolin
- 11.1 Gerstley Borate
- 6.6 Lithium Carbonate *
* indicates toxic ingredient
- 6.2 Titanium Dioxide
- 1 Cobalt Carbonate *
- 2 Bentonite
Do You Make Your Own Glazes?
Let me know below your experience?
