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<\/p>\nWhen my chosen medium was clay, I used a lot of layered, often gritty glazes. In the back of my mind always thinking lichens. <\/p>\n
Today when I was sweeping the deck, to my delight I found this piece has actual lichens growing on the surface.<\/p>\n
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The piece was made in a class at Ohio State in the early 80s. The clay is a buff colored sculpture body with some nice aggregate. The piece was bisque fired to cone 5. A cone 05 lithium blue glaze was applied for the base color. Then low-fire lead glazes were applied. The last fired to cone 015. <\/p>\n
The piece has been on the deck since 1994. It looks so much better with the addition of lichens.<\/p>\n
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If interested in viewing lichen glaze surfaces, check out Lana Wilson\u2019s work<\/a>. Lana\u2019s text, Ceramics: Shape and Surface<\/i> has some great information for the beginner; and it also has loads of information on how to achieve gorgeous glaze surfaces. The text is available on Lana\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n A note about my use of lead glazes. Yes, they are gorgeous low-fire glazes. But lead is potentially dangerous. I haven\u2019t been used lead glazes for several years. Since I have been attempting to use safer materials and processes, I reluctantly decided to remove all potentially toxic ceramic materials from my studio. I had quite the stash. I was fortunate that during the yearly clean-up, the materials were accepted for disposable without cost. <\/p>\n Did I really remove all of the lead from my studio? Well, I did keep a small bag of a leaded frit, just in case. I also found a small sheet of lead that I kept. It is a lovely soft material. I used it to line and wrap portions of boxes.<\/p>\n Detail of a piece in my Make Your Own Luck series. When my chosen medium was clay, I used a lot of layered, often gritty glazes. In the back of my mind always thinking lichens. Today when I was sweeping the deck, to my delight I found this piece has actual lichens growing on the surface. The piece was made in a class at Ohio State … Continue reading Lichens and Glazes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28,7,35,22,15,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-artists","category-books","category-ceramics","category-glazes","category-materials","category-nature","category-processes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe vertical section is wrapped in sheet lead.
\nThe nest-like material is lead wool.
\nThe three objects are whole nutmeg.
\nNutmeg was used for luck.
\nIf consumed it could be deadly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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