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Published: 2009-12-03 23:39:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1039; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 28
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Some stoneware bowls I made my last semester in college. I was experimenting at the time with screen-printing glazes onto 3-D Objects. The main glaze is a gold shino, the glaze the squid is printed on is temmoku, temmoku is also the inside glaze, and it was fired in a gas kiln cone 6 reduction.Related content
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Beautiful squids! Reduction firings are always so lovely.
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Aren't they? I miss college with their gas kilns and their Japanese glazes...
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love these bowls, they have a lovely vintage feel to them
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Thanks! I really wish I had a gas kiln so I could continue going this way, but c'est la vie. I got my BFA last year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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what is temmoku? And could you explain how you screenprinted this? Somehow your glazed pieces look like they were wood/pit fired.
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No Problem! Temmoku glaze is just a general name for a brown chinese glaze with feldspar, limestone, and plenty of iron oxide that's known for looking like it has oilspots on its surface.
The process looks like it was wood or salt fired because Shino glazes (a japanese glaze first developed in the late 1500s) is prone to flashing in a gas kiln, which is where the spots of bright orange are from.
Lastly, you can look at how to screen print onto ceramics by following the link I had above, but basically the method I used was to screen print a glaze onto foam first, then roll the bowl over the foam to transfer the image.
I hope that helped!
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it totally helped, thank you!
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