Experimenting with Clay models 4 _ Glaze

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 There are a couple of items that have been fired already:


Here, the white glaze shows a crawling effect. This is usually considered a fault as it would render crockery useless. For me it was one of these happy accidents, offering me a way to create texture. In fact, some ceramicists use Crawling Glaze on purpose in their work. 

I used to visit Jill Ford, a Ceramicist near York for some workshops a few years ago and have been following her since. She only recently had new textural vases in stock, where she has refined a crawling glaze technique, using it as a feature:

https://www.jillford.com/product-page/crawling-glaze-vase

If I could deliberately create a larger surface of a crawled glaze or imitate this texture, I could make a silicone mould that can be impressed in my future concrete work. This texture, I imagine, could well resemble the fabric of myelin, the fatty protective layer around nerves. These nerves that are insulated with myelin form the what is called 'white matter' of our brain. * It's a combination of fat and protein and appears to look white(ish).

* Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects. 6th edition.

Siegel GJ, Agranoff BW, Albers RW, et al., editors.
Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven; 1999.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK27954/


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