Josie Walter, raw glaze firing.

We had a visiting ceramicist Josie Walters from England giving a 2 day introduction to studio potters life. She also made different thrown vessels explaining all the way how and what to do. The pool of experience is so vast. She made throwing a pot  or bowl look so easy. Learned some fascinating techniques.

Big plate, clear glaze.

So next batch of glazed pieces out of the kiln.

Used transparent glaze on all of them as well as some grind glass on the big plate.

Quite happy with the results, though I am still more partial to the turquoise tone with my neriage and nericomi pieces. It works better with the terracotta tone.

Glaze tended to get stuck and brake at where it was attached to the little supports. 

Throwing square pot.

Nice example of how to make thrown pot on a wheel and trim it back by turning.


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9th of May 2013, green glass.

Live and learn.

This bowl is one of the first mishaps on the wheel. I quite like how the shape and color balance out.

Raku fired with turquoise crackle glaze. 

Layered red earthenware and white stoneware clay. Carved thorough, raku glazed using transparent crackle glaze and crushed green glass in the slopes.

Great experience, I have used the same technique on the pig plate but with normal glaze and heat up to 

1140 degrees. As the raku firing was only up to 1000 degrees the results may be totally different.

Tea bowls theme.

I made a sequence to my first tea bowl in neriage technique.

I still have a long way to go in throwing pottery and controlling the shape of it.

Tried out different placements of red clay.

Raku 8th of May.

So yesterday we made some more raku crackle glaze, reduction fired pieces.

I got some interesting results using finely crushed green glass along side with transparent turquoise crackle glaze on black professional clay body bowl. It had been fired to 1260 degrees beforehand so it did not want to absorb the glaze so I had to heat it up(on tutors suggestion) to help it along. That did the trick.

Black clay with green glass inside, transparent turquoise crackle glaze.

Red earthenware and white stoneware clay plate with transparent turquoise crackle glaze.

First thrown bowls made with Karen.

Perth and aboriginal art influence.

Black and white.

So the black clay and porcelain pieces turned out interesting but did not do what I expected. There was not much bulging and shrinking going on. I'd say I would have to try different clay combined with the porcelain next time. I was really looking forward to see the pieces come to life and do their own thing in high heat.

I can see a little progress in this piece as in it has changed shape.

The black clay does leave beautiful rough surface.

Some of these will be in tomorrows raku firing. Some copper crackle glaze on the black little bowl would be magical