I just completed my first pit firing at home. Before this I'd always pit fired with my friends at Steve Martin's place in Kaneohe. I want to continue firing with them, but the firings are so...
Here are the step-by-step instructions on doing a pit firing! It was great fun! Fast, easy, and interesting results! I know that this is a far step from the high fire glazes that I’m striving for and it does take me in another direction, but…it’s available! So I take advantage of these opportunities to learn! […]
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I love alternative firing of pottery. It’s so alive, visceral, earthy and unpredictable. It’s also such a quick, instant gratification process as compared to a Cone 10 Gas Reduction firing (which I love!), so it’s a nice deversion. I’ve done a pit fire. I’ve raku’d. And now I’ve barrel-fired – and am totally hooked! Barrel […]
Pit firing without the pit! Sumi Von Dassow explains how she adapted the pit firing process to work in a Weber Grill! Oh, the possibilities!
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Maui Potter, Jules Stevens - Pottery, Potters, Raku, Pit Firing and many more resources.
Sawdust firing comes from one of the oldest firing techniques. Modern scholars have theorized that the first clay vessels were ... Read more
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View thumbnails and closeups of Alex Mandli's pit fired pottery. The coloring is based on the random action of fire on clay.
Saggar firing can create spectacular surface effects on pottery. Here's a step-by-step guide with PICTURES and a VIDEO on how it can be done.
From November 7, 2007. Part 3 of 6.Kwantlen University College ceramics instructor David more... Lloyd leads a demonstration regarding the art more... of fi...
Athena Jahantigh’s animal ceramics are a connection of East with West and the past with the future. The addition of wonderful texture brings alive her animals, who have both fur and feathers. Athena Jahantigh is able to create the image by the use of shape and only the smallest detail to represent the actual animal. Zoneone Arts is delighted to bring Athena Jahantigh to you…
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Ceramic containers called saggars hold individual pots packed with sawdust, hard woods, and a variety of combustible materials such as paper, straw, dry weeds, grass, iron, and ceramic colorants.
Make your own Raku Kiln at home.
Welcome to Dick Lehman Clay Art. Enjoy. Visit often. Contact me if you have questions or requests. Here you'll find functional and utilitarian pieces and some more-sculptural works, made in an engaging range of firing approaches: glazed, triple-glazed, wood-fired, side-fired, saggar-fired, and Oni-glazed.
I just love this ferric chloride on my clear glaze …. can’t seem to shake it
M2Crafts writes - "This set of pages diarizes the construction of my kiln. I fire to cone 6 oxydation and use an electric kiln to do so. The kiln I've
