Past Work - Saggar Ceramics
This is a head I made a year or two ago while playing with clay with grandchildren. It's inside a clay-and-newspaper tube and I'm packing stuff in and around it - stuff in this case being sawdust, copper carbonate (the green stuff in the photo), seaweed, bits of copper, straw, bits of cloth - almost anything! | |
The containers and contents were fired in the same oil-barrel type kilns used for raku. | |
End result. I like the way it's accentuated its aged look. | |
A pot I made specially for the experiment. I burnished (polished) the surface of the clay when it was leather hard, prior to biscuit firing. The line around the neck comes from copper wire. I used some much other stuff I can't really connect cause and effect with anything else! I like the overall effect, though! | |