Cone six slip casting clay line blend.

I will post the recipes when i get home!

Found this at R&F paints.

This inspires me! It uses a nonfunctional glaze on the bottom two thirds for decoration and allows the vitrified clay to serve the functional requirements.

White clay body recipe testing

Cone 6 Crystalline Glaze Base

Fa’s #5 (Revised)	Cone 6
Zinc Oxide	27.0 %
Talc	5.0
Ferro Frit 3110	50.0
Spodumene	4.0
Silica (325 mesh)	14.0
	100.0 %
Add: Titanium Dioxide	2.0 %

Glaze was on cone 10 porcelain tiles.

Kiln Program

Increase temperature 350°F per hour to 700°F

Increase temperature 750°F per hour to 2000°F

Increase temperature 150°F per hour to 2210°F (this puts cone 6 over, cone 7 at 1 o’clock position)

Hold at 2210ºF for 10 minutes

Cool down 750°F per hour to 2000°F, hold for 1 hour

Cool down 750°F per hour to 1900°F, hold for 3 hours

Kiln off, vent off, total firing 9–9½ hours

Glaze #1 Base

 Glaze #2 Red Iron Oxide 3.5%

 Glaze #3 Cobalt Carbonate 1%

 Glaze #4 Barium Carbonate 8%

 Glaze #4 (Detail)

 Glaze #5

Copper Carbonate 4%

Cobalt Carbonate .25%

 Glaze #5 (Same Glaze)

 Glaze #5 (Detail)

Observations

*Glaze application was not thick enough (painted on with three coats)

*Glaze #4 with barium carbonate produced the most crystals, possible because of its lower melting temperature

*Glaze #5 produced two distinct colors because of its placement in the kiln

etruscan bunny jug!

This is what i did with some of the bird

This is what i did with some of the birds

Diamond Ring and Display

In my Crafting the Virtual Space class i created 'diamond rings' and a ring display on the computer using Rhino3D and had them made real using the laser cutter on campus. They are now being sold at at the store i work at ^_^ www.cocoonathome.com

I plan on usinf my bosses sons monster d

I plan on usinf my bosses sons monster drawings and turning them into sculptures.

Hug Monster Update!

The Hug Monsters are going out tomorrow and they will have this snippet of text with them.

Hi, I am a hug monster and I am trying to get home in time for a critique at 3pm on Thursday, March 17th, 2011. Please pass me along (with a hug!) to someone who is or is more likely to know a student or teacher currently in the class Ceramic Object as Multiples.

Modeled after Michael Gurevich’s small world experiment, anyone is on average six steps (friend of a friend) away from any other person. Questions/ Comments http://danielsangiacomo.blogspot.com/

More! And better!

More dead baby birds

Lighting project

Its a dead baby bird.

Bubble Gum Essential Oil Blend

Bubble Gum Essential Oil Blend

Hug Monsters by Garfield

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This is my idea for the hug monsters.

Baby Heads

Probably my favorite thing in the store i work at.

Rhinoceros

Using rhino, a 3d drawing program in my crafting virtural space class.

More, more, more!

I'm up to number 130, i have a production going so its running smooth. Still not sure if i should bisque or use the energy and fire them to temp..

Hug monsters

I plan on using 100 of them for a "six degrees of seperation" experiment.