Comments | pharminatrix: Dug up with pickaxes and fingernails (Galactic Pot Healing: Part 4)

pharminatrix

Dug up with pickaxes and fingernails (Galactic Pot Healing: Part 4)

Nov 27, 2007 15:31

This weekend I broke out the high-fire clay for the first time. High iron-content and whiskey-shit orange-brown. When I opened the bag, the aroma swirling out, while fortunately non-correspondent with the color, was not something I expected clay to smell like. Faintly organic, and unplaceable. Until I realized: blood. But exactly. That is iron-rich ( Read more... )

cone 10, ceramics, stop me now, alchemy, iron, blood, clay, not again, pottery, high-fire, wheel throwing

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ineffabelle November 28 2007, 06:04:53 UTC

I can't wait to see what you come up with.
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Centering
Shaping
Glazing - The Gleam, etc...
The Refiner's Fire
The cooling off period

Sounds like a recipe for good things.

Recipe for MADNESS! pharminatrix November 28 2007, 15:38:34 UTC

Oh yes. And last night I used the grey/buff stoneware for the first time. Smoother finish than the iron-clay, but sturdier/groggier than the brown stoneware. Added bonus: bisque-fires off-white (good glaze ground) and can be high-fired! I'm all, "where have you been all my life? Or the last ten weeks?" I made a bowl out of it last night. Decent size, too. We'll see what the shrinkage is like when I trim it today. But I think I finally "get" bowls. The learning curve has spikes, see. Or steps. There's competency and then there's a sort of gestalt "ahhh" that lifts you up another level.