I’m really making progress on the Honors Project for Ceramics. Guess I’d better be making progress, it’s due no later than next Friday.
Here’s where I have it, it’s a work in progress, so be patient.
http://ceramics.stewartcreations.com/
Next week we get to Raku fire some stuff, I’ll do Dave’s mask, I don’t think I took a pic yet, but it’s got an awesome mustache and a squint. I’ve been working on some bunny shapes, like the native potters do, an oval outline with rabbit shapes drawn in. So I think I will scratch a scene on the mask like Mexican artists do for the tourist pieces, maybe a fish design, some cacti and bunnies on the hills between.
The part where you scratch through the slip will gather the smoke from Raku firing and become dark lines. Then you add whatever you have and it burns off, (macaroni, string, leaves wax copper wire, artificial sweetener, sugar, pills like Lipovox or ambien), it leaves different colors where it was touching. sometimes you get iridescence. Wrap it all up in aluminum foil and fire it until it glows, then put it in under a tub to cut off the oxygen until it cools.
I made a couple of pots for that and the mask.
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