2010 and the 365 project

So here's the photostream :-)

beautiful booth video

Two Glassy Ladies - Beautiful Booth of the Month from Mathew Augustus on Vimeo.

Find more photos like this on Moss Street Market


Slideshow of Moss Street Market, May 23, 2009

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Slideshow from the Moss Street Market

this is a slidoo embed code and *should* display images in a neat horizontal sliding show.

follow up on flux/glaze/mica

schedule 1 was very good to melt the flux/glaze mix and leave a nice finish (perhaps a bit more flux would be even better) and it was also perfect to remelt bottles without breaking them. But the mica was a disappointment. Clumpy and not at all subtle.

gotta find a different way to use it I guess.

Schedule 1
Unwobbling and hopefully curing the mica-fluxy-glazy thing I'm trying

..........rate /hour .......degrees.............hold
1.............160.............961 .............2
2 ............178 ............1050.............3
3 .............130 ............1390...........12
4 as fast as possible....1050............. 45
5 ..............50......960............75
6..............167 .............960 ............. 14
7 .............3120 ............. 600 ...........0

big plate - clear with white mica edges
others all have some mica in them

note that about a 1/4 tsp mica is mixed with 2 tbsp clear lo-fire glaze and about an equal part of 10 117 ferro flux

Here's the video embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMrf_sd3gkA

My video -- note glass related :-)

http://www.octacollective.com/ColourYourPalate/ is the link for the ArtsREACH benefit event where chefs compete to raise money for arts programs for kids. The Glassy Ladies are naturally interested in this cause, and were delighted to be asked to donate some bottle-palette-platters as prizes for the winning chefs.

masks

Here are some new masks.

more about these numbers

1305 was barely acceptable for the type of tack fuse I wanted. I'll definitely go to 1340 when I do this again.

But 1305 was quite nice for getting the neck to bend on the stand up bottles -- actually a bit too much for the Grand Marnier bottle.

I know I went through much of this before, in fact it's all probably in earlier pages of this very blog.