Hi guys and welcome back to my channel, Blue Nose Trading. My name is Tori Solis, and today I'm going to be doing a series review of some work I made with the creative arts center mystery clay that I threw a couple weeks back. I did a lot of glaze testing. I glazed all of these in my own kiln with the glaze that I made myself.
For starters, the bisque fire over-fired. It was supposed to be cone 04, but judging by my witness cones I'm guessing that we got to cone 01. So that made it really hard to apply glaze to these because they weren't as porous, they weren't as absorbent. They didn't really want to receive glaze the same way. I did try to compensate for that when I was glazing them, but there is only so much that you can do.
Second, the glaze fire also over-fired. I had a cone 6 cone in the kiln sitter, and I ended up around cone 8 or a very hot cone 7 based off of the witness kilns when I opened up the kiln. So all of this stuff was fired way hotter than I was initially trying for. So the glaze results might vary, depending on if I can get these glazes to fire at cone 6 like they were supposed to. Also, in addition to the creative arts center mystery clay, I threw in a couple of old old pieces just as test tiles. We will go over those too. I will have a picture of the test tiles at the end of this video (I will not). If you want any of these glaze recipes, please feel free to reach out to me, I will send them to you, I am not greedy. Most of them came out of the John Britt Mastering Cone 6 Glazes book. So let's get to the review of this set of work.
This glaze is called "Chameleon 2", it didn't have a picture of what it was going to look like, and I was honestly expecting green, and I got mustard yellow. Which is fine, I guess. I put a little bit of oatmeal around the rim. These are unglazed on the inside because they are planter pots. This mystery clay fired out to like a grey kind of buff with some light speckling. I did like it. It does have a bit of a rough texture though. It's kind of gritty. So that's this one. It's fine.
This is one of my really old pieces from early on that never got glaze fired. I just used it as a test tile. This is the chameleon, and on the inside it's waxwing brown, with waxwing brown around the outside. The waxwing brown did some really nice movement. I wish I had a little more on there, but I was being extra cautious because I wasn't sure how far these glazes were going to run. Especially with the chameleon since I never used it before. It didn't seem to run at all on it's own. So if you need a mustard yellow, I got you.
This set here is mostly variegated blue slate. I've used this glaze at the creative arts center before. This clay did bubble a little bit, I think from the heat, it got really hot. This came out a nice dark denim. It did the same thing on this little planter. Just dark denim, it's fine. I didn't love it but it's ok. This is another old piece, super super heavy. This is the variegated blue slate with the mouse brown oatmeal all around and on the inside. Heavy. Good toothbrush holder or something.
Moving on, this is patina green. This is another glaze that I used at the creative arts center, and I enjoyed it. But this does not feel the same. I think a lot of the results that I'm getting are the clay body being darker than what I was using before. I think that's most of it. This one, also the patina green. I had to brush these glazes on instead of dipping them. I used a lot of CMC gum to make them thicker. They are fine. This is an old pieces. This was oatmeal and patina green, or, yeah I think that's what it was. It didn't really turn out super great. Not super impressed. I'm looking for brighter colors and these are really, natural.
These are the underglazes. I didn't have a clear glaze because I haven't gotten around to making that yet. And since it fired so hot and didn't have a clear glaze, I lost most of the color. The cactus still look pretty cool, but the red pretty much completely washed out, and the green got really dark. I don't like this at all. This is what happens when you're bored, you make bad pieces and bad decisions.
Moving on to the next set here. This is Carmen's turquoise. It behaved beautifully. It's exactly what I was expecting. I really like how it got toasty on the edges and made that nice orange glow around where it was. It did that on both of the pieces. This glaze pretty much behaved exactly how I expected it to. Very satisfied with those. These have to be my favorite from this set. If I was going to keep one, it would probably be this one. I don't know if I'm going to keep one or not.
This is one of the old pieces. This is waxwing brown over gloss black. Just to see what would happen. It pretty much worked out exactly how I expected it to. Then I made some of these fun Blue Nose Trading, they are going to be magnets, and I'm going to give them away with orders over $100, or to my patrons over a certain amount. I haven't decided, but if you join my patreon you will probably get one of these up until I run out of them. But I will probably make more.
That's everything from this series. I am going to sell most of this stuff off at the market. So it should be gone by the time this video comes out. Unless it's so ugly that nobody wants it, which is possible. I've got more pots in this clay coming. I threw some more this last week. I'm going to glaze them out. I'm probably going to stick with Carmen's turquoise for those, and then just push them out at the market. I might do some more experimenting with this chameleon, just to get rid of it. I don't think I'm going to make it again. It's not really a favorite for me.
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