Yet Another Blue…
You remember my last blue glaze that blistered at cone 6? Well I had a big batch of it mixed up and a couple of batches of older glazes that were low in the bucket …
Category: Local Materials
Destroying the Plasticity of Clay
Why would you want to destroy the plasticity of a clay? To eliminate cracking when drying in either a glaze or a clay body. This was the result of trying to destroy the plasticity without …
You Can’t Guess with Wild Materials
I never would have guessed, from the amount of sand in this body, that it would craze. Never in my wildest dreams and yet, here we are. This is my latest dug clay and one …
A Local Material in Place of Bought Silica
This is a material I found on one of my clay hunts. Right out of the ground, it would stick together in a ball, but not roll a coil unless it was very wet. As …