Thursday, July 19, 2012

Sealing kiln patina


I'd read about Everbrite Coating at Wanaree's blog of course I couldn't keep myself from trying:o) for me most important part was sealing kiln's patina. Will it stay or not? A few days ago got my Everbrite Coating sealer. So... here are the results of my experiments. All pieces made of homemade bronze clay with natural kiln patina. Homemade bronze (opposite to copper) clay pieces are pretty coarse and porous (clay particles are 325 mesh). And sealer goes into the surface as into sponge:o) but ... so far by results it's really the best sealer I've tried. Yes, colors get dull, but not so that you totally lose the coloring. So for high traffic pieces I definitely will  use it.
I unfortunately do not have original image for the pebble, bet even now you can see the coloring that left, it's not bad at all.  As I understand - the "bad" color for sealer is a blue, as usually it dulls/became black, others more or less keep on just dull a bit.  
Here some visual.

 after sealing

 before sealing

the small details weren't sealed, just the big rings

2 comments:

  1. I love this patina! How do you do it?
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  2. :o)I do not do that:o) it's kind of set of variables, that cause this kind of patina: kind of bronze clay, coal, temperature that you take your pieces of the coal.

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