John Post

I added a link to Robin Hopper's blog on the Links to Potters and Suppliers page.

I added a few pages of my students creating Clay Pyggs, Realistic Tree Paintings and Triangle Cat Paintings.

I posted a few pictures of variations on the Floating Blue Base glaze with different colorants in them. These glazes do not resemble Floating Blue, but they are variegated and interesting.

I created a glaze I call Post's Floating Blue while I was experimenting with colorants in a series of line blends. It looks best on brown clays at cone 6. I also posted three new Ian Currie Grid glaze experiments.

A link to iron red glazes fired at cone 10 electric in oxidation can be found on the Trouble Shooting Iron Red Glazes of this site. There is a link to Conor McLean's work as an apprentice with Dan Weaver in developing these glazes in a small electric kiln.

An essay that I wrote to clayart has been included in a book by Nils Lou called The Art of Play. You can read about it here.

I added a link on my links page to Kenneth Baskin's website. He makes mechanical looking sculptures from clay that look like metal artifacts.

I fired an Ian Currie grid of Glossy Base 1, a glaze from Mastering Cone 6 Glazes by John Hesselberth and Ron Roy. Then I tested Glaze 17 from this grid with 9 different colorants yielding 45 different color variations.

I added a link to John Tilton's site on my links page.

Post's Jun, a thick white glaze that looks good over irony clay bodies is my latest new glaze.

I sponged some Amaco, Sax and Duncan lowfire glazes over my 244 Fat White and over Pete's Tomato Red #13 w/spodumene. I fired these sponged on lowfire glazes to cone 6 and they didn't run.

I also fired a copper carbonate variation of the 244 Fat White Base trying to recreate a subtle green glaze I stumbled across by accident a while ago.

I've added a new glaze recipe to the site. It's Post's 244, a fat magnesium white glaze at cone 6. Mel Jacobson's use of Rhodes 32 glaze in his gas kiln inspired me to attempt creating a fat white in my electric kiln at cone 6.