by Cindy Bracker | Aug 5, 2014 | Featured, Glaze of the Month, Glazes, Products, Raku
Stunning shades of blue! I was pleasantly surprised by the results of this month’s featured Raku Glaze. Laguna’s Dynasty Blue offers a wide variety of results and with just a little bit of understanding you can definitely influence one result over...
by Cindy Bracker | Jul 2, 2014 | Featured, Glaze of the Month, Glazes, Products, Raku, Specials, Sales
My experiments with Spectrum’s Mars Raku glaze this month were a little different than some of my past tests. I love watching old Saturday night live episodes and I have particularly fond memories of a skit with Dan Ackroyd as Julia Child and she makes a...
by Cindy Bracker | Jun 3, 2014 | Featured, Glaze of the Month, Glazes, Products, Raku
I should have featured this glaze in November, because it really does make me think of Mom’s house the week of Thanksgiving, when she gets out all the silver and we sit down to make it shine. I love how this glaze’s surface varies from the light silvery...
by Cindy Bracker | May 6, 2014 | Featured, Glaze of the Month, Glazes, Products, Raku, Specials, Sales
Pardon the pun, but Spectrum’s Raku glaze, Galaxy, is out of this world! I’ve never seen a single Raku glaze produce such a wide variety of results based on the reduction material. Excelsior influenced beautiful iridescent purples, blues and golds, while...
by Cindy Bracker | Apr 7, 2014 | Education, opportunities, Family, Featured, Raku
Spring has been my favorite season for a long time, Daffodils are blooming, trees are budding, birds are chirping, the sun is shining and the weather is warming….and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Spring is also when Raku returns. Although I...
by Cindy Bracker | Apr 1, 2014 | Featured, Glaze of the Month, Glazes, Products, Raku, Specials, Sales
AMACO’s Caribbean Blue, is a blue green to sea-green colored glaze, shifting toward lime green with flashes of gold & copper. The contact of the reduction material against the glaze brings out the metallic flash. When overlapped with crackle white, the...