Alisa Liskin Clausen Ceramics

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Alisa Liskin Clausen Ceramics

For Cone 6 ox., see my test and glazes at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/glazes/
https://glazy.org

Understanding materials and how to make glazes is a primary in achieving the work you want. This site is to show all the glaze experiments and glazes I continuously work on. By making this material available, I hope it will inspire you to get glazing! Even with all the recipes and pictures available here, remember you need to test and test again, to get the results you want with your materials a

nd firings. My fascination and respect for cross cultural ideas, icons and references, that clay so willingly gives a physical face to, is my primary drive for working in the ceramic medium. Over thousands of years, human hands continue to transcribe complex, historically important and infinitely changing information, in all forms of art, that every impulse can be experienced with new perceptions. We are in a constant process of defining and redefining personal aesthetics, whereby we are all involved in building subcultures, no matter if we one or a society of millions.

10/05/2026

A great reunion at the MET, of glaze nerds with Amaco’s glaze designer and experimental ceramic designer Cory Brown and Glazy’s author Derek Au. Ceramic artist Nuokan Huang.

28/04/2026

A lot of nice green variations with the same base I have been testing. See all the variations here https://glazy.org/recipes/125021 and here https://www.flickr.com/photos/glazes/
The original recipe had Gerstley Borate and I revised the recipe with boron frit JM169. Try Frit 3134 if you have that.

03/04/2026

One base that fits my clay and has a surface I like. Color it!
See all of the additives on glazy here https://glazy.org/recipes/125021.

The top row are all with Cobalt Carb. additions. The bottom row are all with Copper Carb. additions. Using one base, and making increment additions, can yield a lot of tests using minimal materials. 100g. of wet glaze, with increments, can make between 2-5 test tiles. I build them up.

For example starting with one cup, add 0.5% Cobalt Carb., 1.0% Cobalt Carb. (adding just 0.5% more of Cobalt Carb. to get to 1.0%), 2% Tin, 5% Tin (adding 3% Tin to get to 5% Tin), 2% Titanium Diox., 0.5% RIO.
6 tests. Not 100% accurate because each dip takes a little of the 100% base, but good enough to see what I want to further test.

Keep notes, document photos, compare test tiles. Make more tests.

11/03/2026

There are some glaze bases which I work on a lot because they show some really nice results with colorants, opacifiers and modifyers. One of them is Folk Art Guild White, popular for cone 6 for it's dependability.

I have made many color tests, yet repeating them have given me some different results. The first set showed a milky base and all of the subsequent tests, showed a clear gloss base.

I continued to test and retest the same colorants. I make increment tests to cut down an the amount of test glaze base used.

Here is one example of the varied fired surfaces I got for the same colorants. Three tests from 3 different mixes of the same base glaze. Maybe my scale was not fine calibrated, or I was just not being accurate enough.

I am still retesting some of the colorant mixtures to omit which ones are way off and which ones I can repeat accurately.

My base is a revision of the original recipe with Danish materials. Pretty sure the colorants will behave similarly in the original recipe as the analyses are very similar.

https://glazy.org/recipes/125021

13/02/2026

I make a lot of glaze tests. One way to save some time and glaze ingredients is to get the most out of 100g. test batch of glaze. Although the results may not be 100% accurate for a bigger batch, because each dip takes out some of the 100 grams, it is close enough to decide to continue with the glaze or not.

Here is how I make a list prior to testing a base I am going to color. I make increments of coloring oxides. opacifiers and crystallizer, which are based on previous combinations which I liked in other bases. It is also a good practice to make notes, so that you can match your test tiles to your notes, in case you labeled a test tile wrong. It can happen when you are making lots of tiles and lose concentration for a moment. I make mistakes, but can correct them by looking at the tile and thinking "that makes no sense" and then my notes tell me what the colorants really are.

I go by oxide. Here, first is the Cobalt list. Incremental additions to 7 x 100g. batches, yielding 17 test tiles.

The Copper tests have 6 x 100g. yielding 19 tests.

28/11/2025

Cone 6 ox. on light stoneware clay.

Floating Marie Base

25 Nepheline Syenite

22 Silica

21 Kaolin

16 Frit 169

13 Dolomite

3 Wollastonite

True story. I was trying to help a person who contacted me, with a glaze base. I did not succeed getting right surface she wanted the communication paused. But I saw potential, in some of tests I made for her, for a surface I had been trying to get by a whole different route. Variegated, phase separation and different color nuances, all from one glaze. Big ambitions for me.

After, as usual, the many tested variations, I found this base to be the best for the phase separation and the beautiful color nuances, I had imagined. The first many color tests I made, are with tin and titanium diox. Some nice surfaces. With rutile, the variegation and phase separation is, in my opinion, just gorgeous.

More variations with rutile on Glazy #43061.

Lesson learned. Anyone who ever heard of me knows that I like free, open-resource sharing (Glazy). By working together, asking, helping, being curious, somewhat diligent, reinforcing with positive suggestions and sharing, sometimes the person you are helping the most, is rewardingly, you. Sharing strengthens our clay community.

11/10/2025

Recently. I became curious about the melt and color response of the 20x5 glaze base I regularly use.

From left to right, top and bottom,
The base has 20 gram each Forshammer Feldspar, Whiting, Boron Frit, Silica and Kaolin.

Middle row has Nepheline Syenite instead of Forshammer Feldspar and Whiting.

Right row has Nepheline Syenite and Wollastonite instead of Whiting.
All top tests have 5% Tin and 0.3% Chrome.

Bottom tests have an additional 0.5% Cobalt Carb. added.

There was no obvious visual difference in color response or melt. The Nepheline Syenite and Wollastonite recipe may be a little glossier.

The big surprise was to see how the glaze with Cobalt breaks a beautiful blue. Good reason to use test tiles that have a textured section.

02/09/2025

Two bases, many different fired surfaces. The base to the left, Hansen 20 x 5 with Whiting has high Calcium. It makes the Chrome Tin mechanism work. The same colorants in the base on the right, has a almost no Chrome Tin responses. The Magnesium in that base hindered the reaction. Both based can yield a breaking RIO with added Tin. On the left, row 2, one of the tiles containing Copper and Tin, was fumed by a nearby tile containing Chrome.

Magnesium is neither required nor need be excluded for Titanium Cobalt green. Titanium is required. They were however, more pronounced in the right base with Magnesium and lower Calcium. How these coloring oxides and combinations of them with opacifiers react, depends on the glaze base chemistry.

16/07/2025

Pool's open. Quiet luxury lagoons for soothing summer days.
Formed on cardboard avocado packaging.

These glazes are all on Glazy.org
Search Val's Turquoise, Spearmint and Juicy Turquoise.
Outside sandy breach is Lynnette's Opal.

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