I personally prefer a light coat of mid blue slip and then maybe a spiral trail of copper oxide over the glaze if I'm doing a bowl.
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Showing posts with label chun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chun. Show all posts
Saturday, 26 July 2014
JUN GLAZE IMAGE
I've tried with this image to combine the hanzi used to write CHUN / JUN the name of a glaze with colors and semi transperency that suggest the actual glaze colors which can vary from pale near celadon blue to a mixture of blue red green and purple depending on which clays and slips are under it or if you also splash copper or cobalt oxide over the glaze as well.
I personally prefer a light coat of mid blue slip and then maybe a spiral trail of copper oxide over the glaze if I'm doing a bowl.
If you have a friend who does ceramics show this to them.
I personally prefer a light coat of mid blue slip and then maybe a spiral trail of copper oxide over the glaze if I'm doing a bowl.
If you have a friend who does ceramics show this to them.
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Nuka is NOT Chun
This is a followup to my Kang and Nuka Post.
Nuka often looks like CHUN but it is NOT.
Its more feldspathic than Chun and than there's the rice bran as an ingredient for the silica thing.
To further complicate things whehter a vessel is wood rather than gas fired can also effect the glaze.
NUKA is Japanese.
Chun originated in Song China.
I hope to firing some Chun vessels later this year After I have resolved problems with course cancellations and changes to pricing at TAFE and problems with finding a day elsewhere if I can get into WAC that does not clash with living an elderly relative in a aged care facility.
More later this year
Ceramics is as much a part of Asian culture as Calligraphy.
Coming soon a series on Ancient Chinese Bronzes.
Do the characters used to write their names tell us anything about them?
Nuka often looks like CHUN but it is NOT.
Its more feldspathic than Chun and than there's the rice bran as an ingredient for the silica thing.
Yes I can hear some ceramicist saying but it looks a lot like Chun?
Take a close look. See how it runs in streaks .
Chun tends to be denser and cloudier.
Okay these 2 small bowls have oxide splashes on them but can you see the difference?
Just to complicate things there's another Chinese glaze called Shiwan which fires at lower temperatures like NUKA and I have found you can get similar effects to Shiwan and Nuka firing a speckled pattern created with underglazes in two different colors of blue light and dark under Chun.
To further complicate things whehter a vessel is wood rather than gas fired can also effect the glaze.
NUKA is Japanese.
Chun originated in Song China.
I hope to firing some Chun vessels later this year After I have resolved problems with course cancellations and changes to pricing at TAFE and problems with finding a day elsewhere if I can get into WAC that does not clash with living an elderly relative in a aged care facility.
More later this year
Ceramics is as much a part of Asian culture as Calligraphy.
Coming soon a series on Ancient Chinese Bronzes.
Do the characters used to write their names tell us anything about them?
Monday, 24 December 2012
Valuable Chun
Chun or Jun is the name of a famous Chinese glaze generally producing blues and areas of green red or purple depending on what clays and slips its used over and whether or not you add a splash of copper pigment and the heat of the kiln too.
People like to romantize the glaze names n
but fond their actual meanings simply refer to their place of origin.
While you can hand build objects and vessels and use Chun glazes most Song dynasty Chun artifacts were wheel thrown bowls.
More about Chun in 2013
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