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chun's over purple glaze. the purple turned more of rich wine red during this firing that I've never seen before.Related content
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Beautiful, I don't know anything about glazes but the red on blue reminds me of blue glass that oxidises in the torch flame 
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Ceramic glazes is essentially glass, made up the same materials, minerals etc. so the process is very similar.Β Copper created the red in this case. Β Copper turns blue when it oxidizes, but here it's red because the oxygen in the kiln was reduced -so the process was basically reversed.
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I thought so! I know that the oxygen supply in the glass blowing torch can be turned up and down, but I didn't know that you could do that in a kiln, too, and create a reducing environment to get the red colour. Interesting!
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Reduction cone 10. They were in the top of a large (5ft) kiln so they might have gotten close to cone 11. The purple would not have the deep rich color in oxidation, it would actually be close to a flat blue.
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not at all.. the color scheme does seem to go well with you
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an army of them!!! ah=ah=awesome.. these are your favorites?
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colorwise of my mugs they are my favorite. I think I'm surprised by them more than anything else. That deep purple red is usually a boring flat color that I don't like to use by itself. And I love bright and rich colors so does it surprise you that I like these so much?
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