New Glaze alert (Donte’s Greymon)
About a year back I made a glaze just to test different textures, colors, heat limits, and clay bodies. I keep the recipe on glazy “Dontes base tests” https://glazy.org/recipes/251007 with experiments and notes added. Throwing in any color and mineral into a nice, stable base to learn about different effects. This lead to messing with titanium dioxide at 1, 2, 3 % after finding a good colorant in the form of Yellow Iron oxide. btw, no, there isn’t much of a difference between Yellow Iron oxide vs R.I.O (it’s still about 90% iron vs the standard R.I.O). 1 and 2 % titanium dioxide isn’t much of a difference in texture or depth but once you get to 3% you can really see a difference especially when you can get it over a carved r textured surface. The glaze itself is rather clear at a base (see image 1 below) which makes it perfect to see what going on when I throw random things in it.
luckily for me the randomization gets focused as I learn more about the glaze, which led to the development of a glaze I now call “Greymon” (named after a Digimon with the same color pattern, see pic 2 and 3). A mostly dark orange body at base with hints of blue and streaks or yellow. I love it.
Of course I can’t test a glaze on one clay / test tile and call it a good glaze. The experiment must be repeatable to be standard. I tested this many times over mostly with a small 40 min to 1hr hold in cone 6 oxidation. These are my results as well as the full recipe link down below. note : without a hold it comes out a little more blue.
Donte’s Greymon glaze https://glazy.org/recipes/307741
Greymon on b-mix medallion test tile. This really shows how well it can do even on a flat texture. Blues, yellow, clear brown with breaking on the edges. Fantastic.
Greymon on a dragon fruit clay body (mostly porcelain) Notice it turns a bit blue where it pools.
Greymon on a redstone clay body. held at 1800f for 1 hr.
Greymon on a recycled clay body mixed with dragon fruit. I thought the little spots were pitting but they are just the texture of the clay coming through the glaze. held at 1800f for 1 hr
Greymon on bmix clay body. very good representation of the glazes color on different lvls of texture.
