Tuesday, June 5, 2012

firing found materials

 the materials after the bisque fire from left to right are-
1: pure vantage hwy clay
2: 50/50 vantage and ball clay
3: 50% vantage 30% epk 20% thorp sand
4: 50/50 vantage and gold art
5: 80% vantage 20% thorp sand
6: a white vantage hwy body
after learning that the vantage would melt regardless, I chose not to put it in the ^10 firing and replaced it with a white body which i found on the west side near Shelton the results are that only numbers 2, 4, and 6 survived everything else had melted including what was found on the west side. unfortunately I did not test the plasticity of the white vantage highway body but it felt nice and fired interestingly, turning more red after each firing.

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