{"id":65,"date":"2009-03-25T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynneglazzard.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/03\/25\/copper-clay-and-enamel\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:06:00","slug":"copper-clay-and-enamel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/2009\/03\/25\/copper-clay-and-enamel\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper clay and enamel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/ScqBAvePZII\/AAAAAAAAAh0\/8q_-56e4VNQ\/s1600-h\/Copper-clay-2.jpg\"><img style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;width: 200px;height: 103px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/ScqBAvePZII\/AAAAAAAAAh0\/8q_-56e4VNQ\/s200\/Copper-clay-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/ScqBAXTEQpI\/AAAAAAAAAhs\/kfO_xCx2_ho\/s200\/Copper-clay-1.jpg\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;width: 200px;height: 110px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>These are my first experiments with the copper clay produced by Hadar Jacobson. \u00a0The two left hand pieces and the small samples all have textured patterns using my paper textures butfor the central piece I used a commercial texture plate (not something I do very often). \u00a0I haven&#8217;t had much time to spare to explore this medium but really wanted to know how it would enamel. \u00a0On the right hand side the samples are showing (clockwise) a piece fresh from the kiln with part of the oxidised surface cleaned with a wire brush. \u00a0The top right-hand enamelled sample had no flux layer whereas the one below it had a layer of enamel flux fired on first followed by the layer of three colours. \u00a0The central piece had a layer of flux inside fired, was pickled and scrubbed and then had the reds inside and small amount of flux over traces of the fire scale in the leaf pattern. \u00a0It oxidises very heavily when being enamelled so then had to be pickled in a salt and vinegar solution and the reds I used were not particularly &#8216;pickle safe&#8217;. \u00a0Although in these pieces my standard of workmanship leaves a lot to be desired I knew that I didn&#8217;t have much free time to do them in and really wanted to know what it would be like and I think it might be of interest to other enamellers out there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my first experiments with the copper clay produced by Hadar Jacobson. \u00a0The two left hand pieces and the small samples all have textured patterns using my paper textures butfor the central piece I used a commercial texture plate (not something I do very often). \u00a0I haven&#8217;t had much time to spare to explore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}