Collection of Megan Davis.
Photos: JoJo Bazilian/BazFoto Int'l
Both glazes on this piece are effectively rutile blues, though the one on the outside is actually constructed with titanium dioxide and red iron oxide. I've been playing with these glazes for a while, and have become more and more convinced that the difference between rutile (on the one hand) and TiO2/Fe2O3 (on the other) is profound, but that may be because I am a splitter, not a lumper. (These categories come from taxonomy. The people who say, for example, that there are really only three species of cultivated chiles are lumpers, and the people who say that there are a dozen are splitters.)
I fingerpainted the TiO2 glaze onto the outside of the piece (hey, if I can make mudpies, I can do fingerpainting) to get the texture. The inside has my current regular rutile blue poured into it. (To see what happens when I spray that glaze on things, have a look at the upper image on this page.)
The color rendition here is a bit suspect; I did what I could, but as you can see, the middle image has a washed-out exterior. It's likely that the exterior of the upper image is a bit less gold than it should be, as well: I was trying for the right gold and the right blue-gray, and didn't quite get either. The glaze detail (bottom image) is probably the closest, but take it with a grain of salt.)
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