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URL: Stroke & Coat® are glazes, not underglazes. They are heavily pigmented and have a viscous melt. Applied by brush they give watercolour-like effects in thin applications and increasingly opaque coverage with each added layer.
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Blending an engobe and a glaze to produce an underglaze
These fired samples demostrarte how you could develop your own Stroke & Coat glazes. I made these blends by dewatering an engobe (L3954B) and glaze (G2926B) and then hand-mixing line blending them. The left column is the fired blends (cone 6), the right one the unfired ones (showing the increase in soluble salts as the percentage of glaze increases). The right one shows the increase in melt fluidity. The top ones are 30:70 glaze:engobe and the bottom ones are 90:10 glaze:engobe. Notice the big change in melt fluidity between 60 and 70% glaze (third and fourth from bottom). And that the 70% one is quite glossy even though it has very low melt fluidity. Somewhere between 60 and 70 we could isolate a glaze-like product having underglaze stability. Stains could be incorporated and the proportion of glaze:underglaze adjusted according to its effect on melt fluidity. Doing this yourself enables targeting an exact melt fluidity for each color at the target temperature. The commercial product does not do that. You can also use more stain then they do to get more vibrant color for thinner applications.
Stroke & Coat colors
This custom sample board was made by Solange Roy, it is great evidence of her meticulous and thorough approach to ceramics. These are Stroke & Coat ® underglazes, they are made by Mayco and widely used and praised. But they are not traditional underglazes (like Mayco Fundamentals). They are heavily pigmented and have a highly controlled viscous melt fluidity. Applied by brush they give watercolour-like effects in thin applications and increasingly opaque coverage with each added layer. These products give evidence of meticulous lab work (like this board done by Solange), technicians would have had to do melt fluidity tests of each color and fine-tune the base recipe to get the desired degree of melt fluidity (compensating for the unique effect on melting of each stain type and percentage needed).
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https://www.maycocolors.com/color/fired/duncan-e-z-stroke-translucent-underglazes/
Duncan E-Z Stroke underglazes for water color painted effects on ceramics. An equivalent to Stroke & Coat but not as melted. Can be used as overglaze colors. |
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