Terra Glass Comments on W/C

[*rowanberry*]

a crow landed on my head at Weston-super-mare seafront yesterday! Tony suggested it thought that my head was a big bunch of candyfloss!!!!

anyway - back to Terra

[Billie]

PMSL... Hope it didn't leave a little present... Although it's supposed to be lucky!!

Are people having better success with terra frit then..?

[Redhotsal]

Ha - fade to pink? If only I could get Terra to do that.
You would think that terra frit would work better based on Ray's "layering" theory, woudn't you? Don't know myself - only got rods.
Will post some pics later of my Terrattempts.

[Vicki]

a crow landed on my head at Weston-super-mare seafront yesterday!

Arrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Redhotsal]

Ok - here are some of my Terra and Raku beads which I have been working on lately.
Hope the pictures load - can't be bothered mucking around with Photobucket, but one is largely Raku and the other is largely Terra. I have to say although people often aim to get the jewel-like colors out of Terra I think I prefer it when you get a subtler blue/green colours.

[*rowanberry*]

which one is what?

very nice anyway :-) my fave is the top set - NICE!!!!

[Redhotsal]

Top set is Raku, bottom is Terra.
Cheers
Sal

[*rowanberry*]

Both are luffly - but I remain still in the unfashionable group of people coz I prefer the raku :-) That top set is seriously scrumptious!

Here's something I did with Terra.. (i popped this on the jewellery section as well so I apologise for repeating). I did get some blues and purples but not as much as appearred before it went in the kiln.

In the end I embraced the sage green as I couldnt get shot of it and picked up on it in the ribbon, lol!



and heres another focal:


all of them came out nice at the start but went all poo in the kiln :-(

Give me raku/iris orange and I can get bright vivid colours out of it though with no problems!

[Redhotsal]

oh Claire, they're gorgeous (slobber!)

[Caroline]

oh those beads are lush

and if raku is unfashionable then so am i cause i love raku, not too keen on terra

[LavenderCreek]

Sal that top set is awesome! Who needs Terra when you can make raku do that?
Claire, I love the bead with the ribbons and silver, I'm not sure what it is but I love it 

[*rowanberry*]

I dont even know what it is, lol!

[*rowanberry*]

Well I tried terra again and I think I goddit!!!!

The key is to let it really cool down before striking it - and also dont put it in the kiln when all the colours you want have come out, but put it in when its gone a dark brown and the purples and blues come out in the kiln. Also dont over-anneal them (hard if you are garaging!). I annealed these at 505c

Ray, I tried your theory of mixing all the layers up and I found that it didnt make any difference. i did it at the rod, mashing 2 rods up together as if I was mixing a colour.

They are actually brighter in real life and far less greeny than this pic seems to be showing, grrrr I got a lot of purples and blues.
(apologies for repeating what I've just put in show and tell but I thought it was also worth putting what I had found in this thread and how i did it).

[Redhotsal]

They're lush  - but making me feel really hungry for some reason   

[glassworks]

well done claire!!

they look stunning!!!