RAKU FIRING: Vases by Rose Mary

[Skier9927]

Hi Rose Mary: I'm a friend of Ronnie Aiken and she showed me your amazing Raku video. I think your pieces are AMAZING!!! I am just starting to use precious metal clay and love my kiln. It was great to see yours and how ginormous it is! Keep up the great artistry : - }

Best, Ellen Fontana

[rosemaryflint]

Thanks so much for your comments. It was a very simple video showing how I learned to do raku firing. I would love to talk to you about metal clay. I had one experience with it that was not great, but I've seen many pieces on craft shows that look great!

Rose Mary

[DASRAY]

Thank you very much, looking forward to your next clips.

[DASRAY]

Wow!!! Rose Mary, Thank you so much! I think I have used these glazes by another name before. Do you find that glazes made with Gertsley Borate fade with time? Many Raku people say mix your glazes up fresh so they are more effective. Hope you will show us you whistles as well. We also make whistles. I have had smaller pieces turn out almost Ruby Copper, on the base around dish items, Ithink its the concentrated heat & the thickness of clay in certain area's don't you! THNX AGN DebraRay

[rosemaryflint]

Yes, raku pieces fade, becoming lighter green, then blah gray. But these pieces can be refired! I will eventually show my whistles. I didn't film the process from the beginning, the actual making of the whistle, so will do that soon. What provided intense heat was my basket form which I made from different angle irons, then a basket made of hardware cloth that I set into the basket form. Wow! It was blazing hot when it was set into the trash can and reduction of the whistles was unreal.

[DASRAY]

Very nice!

Would you share your glaze receipe's?

I especially like that crackle you have

on your first pieces!

Thank you,

DebraRay

[rosemaryflint]

Thanks for your comment on the video! The glaze on the first pieces is as follows: 8 and 2 Copper Gerstley Borate 80 Nepheline Syenite 20 Copper Carbonate 3% The second glaze was Crusty Rusty Gerstley Borate 160 Bone Ash 40 Copper Carbonate 10 Cobalt Carbonate 5 On the dry pieces I had previously glazed and did not like, I put on a coat of 8 & 2 Copper and refired them. Today I am rakuing clay whistles with 8 & 2 Copper and they are all copper red. You never know! Good glaze. Rose Mary