Ann, this is amazing, I will try this. I got sodium silicate and tried it over the wheel thrown items but it didn't work the way I was expecting, still got some cool results. I think your slab stretching technique is brilliant and this texture reminds me of cracks on the delicious sourdough bread my husband makes. Very creative! -Izabela
5:43 is it not an issue to close the sylinder with the SS sandwitched inbetween the layers? I am always scraping the SS layer off to attach fex feet to pots that i make.
Hello! Would you please guide me to find beginners videos of yours? I want to try pottery Although I don’t think I’ll ever get a wheel (if that’s the name) but would love to create with my bare hands Thanks for your videos I enjoy them a lot!!!
Hi! Thank you for sharing this was so useful. I have made a bowl from a slip with sodium silicate and now i wonder if i should clean it off the bottom like i would with glaze? Like should i avoid sodium silicate on my kiln shelves?:)
Truly inspiring AND enabling! I'd like to learn more about pattern-making--particularly daring to contort the clay of the original pattern. I totally agree with your decision to cut apart the slabs to multiply the brown seams. Deeply grateful for your sharing so clearly on RU-vid. New subscriber from Chicago, Illinois USA
I have fired plaster in the kiln plenty of times and never had an issue. You just need to make sure that your piece is truly bone dry, and the speed of firing is slow for bisque.
Interesting...will have to explore oni hagi more...thanks for that tip! We used all the scrap pieces for other projects so we did not reclaim any of the clay with the silicate on it. (It would have to have its own reclaim bucket) I would not recommend mixing that silicate with your normal reclaim clay as it may impact firings.
Our community college instructor require students to throw away any excess clay that has sodium silicate on it (NOT IN THE RECLAIM), clean any tools/wheel well after use and throw out the water. So we recommend it's the last projects they do for the period or just dedicate the entire period to silicate projects to reduce risk of cross contamination. That's just how it's handled at our college studio.
We used all the scrap pieces for other projects so we did not reclaim any of the clay with the silicate on it. (It would have to have its own reclaim bucket) I would not recommend mixing that silicate with your normal reclaim clay as it may impact firings.
Ann, another great video with little snippets of advice. Mentioning of the divot(That which Scottish roof tops were made with)(out of turf) made me think of when I make a form for a bowl I should do so with a shallow divot for stability. Your pieces looked really neat. Question I have is if you ever press the buttons in on the end of the cling wrap box to make rollout easier? I have what I call an Onggi mallet which I am looking forward to using on slabs to flatten them out. Take and both of you be well. Cheers...Freddie
@@LittleStreetPottery Let me know if you find them.(Buttons) Will be doing a video when the mallet comes in, have enjoyed my Thor's mallet however this one should be more suited to smashing the clay.
to many ideas too little time to do them all, just loved the mug, the brown join is perfect, the 3 sided pot was amazing but to fiddly and too many sausages was making me hungry. thank you Ann, another good one to add to the list of things to do. you do i will watch, that sounds good x
I just use my porcelain scraps and thin them down with water until its a pancake batter consistency. There is really no specific recipe per se as the amount of water needed will depend on type of clay, the dryness, atmospheric conditions and the position of the moon.
I guess what I would do is have a special reclaim pot specifically for anything that I was mixing porcelain, and that specific clay together… I would rinse the sodium silicate off as much as possible, and then put the rest of clay into that special, reclaim specifically for items that I was using the sodium silicate, porcelain and Stoneware I think that stoneware… So yeah that’s what I would do so at least you’re not throwing away your clay and I’m pretty sure that when she rents the sodium silicate and porcelain off, there’s not enough of that leftover to cause any problem but you can definitely tested and find out… It would just be such a waste to throw out perfectly good clay if you can just rinse it off. Love to hear other ideas….
I tried this and for some reason the slip clay didn’t come apart and fracture like yours! I’m not sure if I put the slip on too thick. I re watched this and I did it all like you did. Anything you can recommend? I’m going to make a few test pieces to see if maybe the clay wasn’t dry enough, wet enough etc. Thanks!!
1. Do you bisque fire these in in the usual manner? 2. Also what cone did you glaze fire to? 3. Any special alterations needed in the firing schedule for either the bisque or glaze firing? Thx. Dying to try this.
Un método complicado y poco práctico...... Pensé que se podía hacer sobre piezas terminadas..... El resultado es positivo cuando cualquier resultado vale...... La pieza es la que manda, no el artesano....
I tried numorous times to recrate this texture with slip only. Regardless how thick the slip was, just would not give me the texture. I will have to try out again by adding Sodium Silicate in. Hopefully it will work this time as good as yours. I'm so in love with this texture.
I LOVE this texture! I'd like to make a small horse sculpture, with this texture. Do you think it would be possible to make an 'inner' horse shape then add very thin pieces of this texture over the top, like pieces of skin? I guess this effect only occurs when you stretch the clay to make the cracks... so I couldn't just make the horse then glaze with the sodium silicate and dry with a hair-dryer? I had some crackle glaze medium years ago (for acrylic painted craft surfaces), and it used to give the crackle effect just by drying it. Thank you :o)
Hi Wendy - I think it would be tough to do any kind of sculpture work with this for the reasons you mentioned. It would be interesting to see you make the horse first then apply the silicate - of course you would still need a way to stretch to get the cracking.
Your videos and presentations are fabulous. If I had to select only one artist's videos I would select yours . Thank you for sharing your creative expertise .
We fire them in a kiln. You may want to research “clay firing” to gain a better insight. If you don’t have access to a kiln you may want to start with an “air dry” clay to get going. Great you are introducing your daughter to pottery!
Yeah, we kind of threw that in last minute cuz it came out cool. It was not intended to be a handle but you could easily extend out the top layer and cut a hole for a handle there. Thanks for watching!
This is so incredible!! I can not wait to do this!! I have been looking for a way to make the look of tree bark on clay and this is so perfect! Wow just in time too! I don’t have different colored clay though so I’m not sure how to get this look but I’ll figure it out. I get soo excited when I see you have a new video!!! Thank you soo much!! I was wondering if you have to make sure that your 2 types of clay have the same shrinkage rate? I have a bit of stoneware clay that is red and a bit that is brown and I usually use white. Thanks in advance!!
We used all the scrap pieces for other projects so we did not reclaim any of the clay with the silicate on it. (It would have to have its own reclaim bucket) I would not recommend mixing that silicate with your normal reclaim clay as it may impact firings.
