Super awesome. Very, very cool stuff. If you use a glass bowl for the reduction chamber lid you can watch the color changing to decide when to fix the color with water.
Hello. Your work is amazing I also do cooper mate raku, but I face thia situation that agter the firing the piece keeps on changing due to the oxidation and sometimes It looses cometely the color and effects Do you also have this kindimof Problem? How do You solve it ?
Beautiful to witness the Process and Result. Question however, the piece is first Bisque fired, then a Copper matte Glaze applied? What brand of glaze and Clay were used for this Pot?
Yes, the piece is first bisque fired. The clay on this piece was white stoneware clay. The glaze was a homemade mix containing copper carbonate as the coloring agent, but I no longer remember the exact recipe. Any copper carbonate based glaze should work though as long as an agent to make the finish matte is included
A bit disappointing a lot of information that I was seeking was left out, such as how long you apply the propane torch for the glaze used the amount of time in the kiln. For what could and should have been educational for us amateur potters was bear on facts and seemed to be Indulgence of the Potter and his friend for that reason I gave it a thumbs down
It most certainly is raku. It might not be done the way you envision it, but it did involve pulling from the kiln and reduction in an oxygen starved environment.
No it is not. Raku is a family name 楽家, dating back 450 years , and only ceramics produced by this family , called Raku Yaki 楽焼 can be called Raku. Raku is a trademark not a style or type of ceramic . Raku is like Champagne , if this wine is not produced in the Champagne region of France from a very specific cepage , it can not be called Champagne , it can only be called sparkling wine , What you are making is sparkling wine . Don't let my english or the photo fool you (that's my husband) I am Japanese born and raised in Kyoto and the 450 years old Raku family kiln is right down the street i grew up in and the Raku 16th generation master Mister Raku Atsundo is a very good friend of mine and so is his father the legendary Raku living national treasure and grand master Raku Kichizaemon who is a very good friend of my mother as they grew up together . So unless your family name is Raku, what you are making is not Raku . Fortunately the Raku family doesn't really care or pay attention to what so called, "raku" potter outside Japan do , but if you even tried to produce your pieces , or teach how to produce them , or even worse, tried to sell them in Japan as Raku , you would go to prison for counterfeit . Just like if someone makes a gown with a sewing machine and calls it haute couture . Haute Couture is a trade mark, it can only be produced in France by a house registered as an Haute Couture house and be entirely handmade by workers who are either graduates of, or validated by the Chambre Superieure de la Haute Couture in Paris . If not this can only be called couture , or high fashion but most certainly not Haute Couture . This is why what you are making is not Raku but Raku style ceramics . I am not saying this is bad , i am saying, this is not Raku . If you created a style or a technique , and gave it your own family name, and then everybody started copying it using the same name , how would you feel ?
Morgan Olfursson most interesting and revealing : western world’s ignorance ? Following the steps of the Leach tradition for the last 49 years and doing Raku these last few years but obviously bastardised the whole process with ignorance of the origins : fascinating and thanks for the mind opener ?!!
@@morganolfursson2560 I would feel a lot of satisfaction and pride that I contributed something to the world culture and that my family name would be attached to it and used all over for generations.
