^7- 10 Reeves
Kona f4 34%
Grolleg 40%
Flint 26%
Also about 35%
darvan 7 .35%
Spelth 8-10
Custer Feld 18%
Tile 6 12%
Ball Clay 8%
Flint 20%
Pyrotrol (pyrax) 12%
Also about 40% water
Davan 7 .35%
Always add the darvan to warm water.
then add ingredients mixing as you go.
add lightest first - if in doubt pick some up and see how fluffy or dense it is.
ex:
Kaolins first
grolleg
Tile 6
EPK
Other clays
Ball clay
OM4
Ten Ten
etc
Med Density
Silica
Pyrax
Last
Nephy Sy
feldspars
Patti Nelson has an MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz, where she was a Sojourner Truth Fellow. She has a BA in Fine Art with departmental honors from Hunter College, NYC, and majored in Integrative Studies, International Relations and Women Studies with a minor in Comparative Religion from Hendrix College, Conway, AR. Patti Nelson has shown nationally and internationally including DC, Seattle, and NYC (Chelsea and Brooklyn), and Budapest, Hungary. She has taught at the university level, in elementary schools, at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY and currently teaches at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts in Philadelphia where she is the ceramics artist in residence. She also currently serves as the director of Pegasus ArtWorks, the arts division of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware.
Her multi-media installation based (ceramics, video, and found materials), and often site specific work ask the viewer to look at the familiar in a new way and challenge assumptions of value, importance and use.
