glaze notes. - Folk Art
Folk Art was one of the first glazes the I created out of John Britt’s The Complete Guide to Mid Fire Glazes. I had a few issues initially with thickness, particularly when layered over other glazes. I thinned the glaze so that this was no longer an issue and often use it as a stand alone glaze. Glaze application matters with colour too. Thin applications produce an iron rich colour moving to white speckled rust with a thicker application. Iron rich clays that are textured enhance the rust colour too as the glaze breaks or thins over the texture.
Basics:
- Clay: Iron rich clays
- Glazes: Folk Art
- Firing: 1220 degrees (mid fire), natural cool, electric kiln
glaze technique
- Folk Art glaze dipped on outside and brush strokes on inside. for contrast effects.
- Double dip on outside
- Textured for rust breaks over the clay
- This glaze when applied thinly produces a speckly, iron rich result. The thicker the application the more it mores to a beautiful off white speckled glaze.
MIXING WITH OTHER GLAZES
I created some test tiles with a matte based, off white glaze because I like the interplay of a gloss glaze with a matte glaze and the reactions that sometimes occur as they meld into one another. Here I have applied Folk Art over a matte base glaze that has 10% Titanium added to it. Both glazes are quite stable so folk art doesn’t run into the matte base, in this case it just sits over the matte base. I could separate the layers with just Folk Art at the top and Matte T10 at the base.
APPLICATIONS
Folk Art is a beautiful glaze for planters particularly where texture has been added to really accentuate the iron in the glaze against the white. The planter to the right has just come out of the kiln. Also when dipped thinly the results are equally pleasing, see image below and the image at the bottom
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These are so beautiful 🙂
Thanks Michelle