Glazebodies

Another initial direction involved mixing fluxes, flux blends and glazes into various whitish claybodies including cone 6 & 9 porcelain, bone china, parian porcelain and belleek porcelain. We wanted these materials to retain a workable quality like clay yet flux like a glaze. Mixes with glossy glazes, not matte, had the effect of softening, fluxing and moving the claybodies beginning at a ratio of 70 clay to 30 glaze at cone 6. Here are some of the Glazebodies at work.

stretching Sticks

These tests aimed to see if we could find a claybody that would melt and stretch without breaking. They are clay and glaze mixes that were rolled out into coil sticks and set, unsupported, across two points to see if they would droop without dropping.

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self-glazing Donkeys & COWS

These tests aimed to see if we could create a self-glazing casting slip that would hold it’s form when fired. We did a series of line-blends to see at what point the cast form would lose it’s structure and act more as a glaze.

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Melting Grog

Inspired by Elliot Kayser’s (www.kayserceramics.com) work, this series of tests was an experiment to see what would happen if we used a melting grog. We achieved a good variety of surfaces.

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