I have learned so much from watching tour clips from the beginners problems to the making of the stretched pattern! Been in a class where you have 2 hours and may have to wait 1 hour for a wheel..no structure and she just hasn't helped me NEAR as much as you..goin back in
with more knowledge and confidence to class this week.. THANKS TIM!! I'll get there!! ~
hey tim! I am in a pretty beginning to intermediate ceramics class right now, in my third semester of working with clay, and second semester of working intensively on the wheel. I really would like to try this at some point, but we use very brown terracotta clay. would it be possible to do an alteration with this in the case of using the brown terracotta clay but instead of the iron oxide/slip, use a white clay slip on the red body? I'm interested in finding a way to make this work somehow.
@AMES942 Of course you can do anything. It will look different and that really is better than getting just what I have done. you can use anything that will contrast to show of the effect but you can also do things that are a little bit closer in color to make a more subtle look.
I like the outcome.. but more then that I really like HOW your demonstrations are. There are so many ppl that talk over things like the blow torch.. I'm REALLY glad you don't to that.
tim i love this idea! ive been trying this out for the last couple weeks. do you have any tips for finishing up pots with the cracked pattern? ive been testing out stains on some pots that i did this pattern to without the slip but i'm stuck on how to finish my pots. any suggestions?
tim i love this idea! ive been trying this out for the last couple weeks. do you have any tips for finishing up pots with the cracked pattern? ive been testing out stains on some pots that i did this pattern to without the slip but i'm stuck on how to finnish my pots. any suggestions?
@mayerpots Well I have finished most of mine in our wood fired kiln. I really like how the surface erodes away and fills in on the ash side and stays crisper on the back. I have stained the cracks and done glazes that overlap with a lot of contrast... one one as the crackle and one after the bisque. take some care with glazes, some will do some odd things when applied to wet clay. but the best advice i can give is try anything, have some fun.
I've had an old teacher in high school who used oxides mixed with a silica the simply brushed on hit with blow drier, so it dried a bit you will find silica on the surface drys very quickly then actually putting your mouth the the open end and blowing into the form like a balloon and the outside you see the same type of cracking or splitting of the surface, gives you a great look
I've watched this video about six times and still am amazed! Thanks so much for all the time and effort you devote to putting up these inspirational videos!
Awesome. I did this in my high school ceramics class that I teach. Pulling out the blow torch really woke them up. It worked wonderfully and I even have my second year students doing the technique. I always come to your videos for creative and fun ideas. Teenagers love to watch your videos too!
If you're having trouble making the slip crack, as some sodium silicate (not much). When it is dried (even with a hair dryer), it get's egg shell hard and will crack.
Ok so I tried this twice yesterday at my ceramics class, but our black slip, and my professor's personal grey slip did not crack. I used a Heat gun to dry the slip, and may have not got it dry enough, but spent 3 minutes drying it and no cracking. just wondering what all is in your slip, and how dry i need to get it.?
It is just iron oxide and water and just a little clay. You need to use a torch it needs to dry quickly the out side surface should be bone dry. and if that does not work you can always have me come and do a workshop.
Will try a torch next time, and I will also talk to my professor about having you visit. Thank you for responding so quickly. I did not get the slip to bone dry, will have to try that as well.
i think he said red iron oxide so for the red color and probably just clay slip so its not so runny, try drying it for longer, stop the wheel and lightly touch it, if it leaves a fingerprint then its still needs drying, and like the guy above, you can add sodium silicate to it and that will help, just wash and clean the brush because sodium silicate will harden and turn them bristles to rock, happened to me a few days ago
Bravo !!!! excelente trabajo, pero quien me informa que es lo que puso glaze(esmalte) o engobe???? CUANDO LOS DE HABLA HISPANA VAMOS A DIUSFRUTAR DE ESTOS VIDEOS EN CASTELLANO?¿?¿?¿?¿
I attempted this technique in the past, letting a thrown cylinder air-dry for 6 hours before attempting the cracks, but it didn't work. I never thought about using a torch, thanks for the tip!
nope it is not necessary for Na silicate but the look will differ play around with anything from sugar salt ... and anything else that will form a crust. yes you can glaze over them or leave them unglazed... you can try crackling glazes or staining the cracks too. lots of possibilities.
HI tim....another awesome demo from ya....thanx....can you tell me what the sodium silicate does? I am about to try this and i think im gonna do it with just a few layers of underglaze..will that work?
Hello it is a mix or Fe03 and the claybody I am using. Some people add a layer or sodium silicate before or after. Say hello to the other potters in the Czech Republic for me.
Nope shouldn't make a difference you might want to play with what you put on the surface to engage the way in which you plan on firing or glazing the piece
hi man help me please !i live un belize and i need to buy the belt for the lathe you have ,that is the same " brant c" i have .since i bought i practiced and then brok .can't work .tell me please,where i buy this(on line) and how you name it, to ask for it,thanks from belize,omar
ya but if you want to know, the idea of a blow dryer and water possibly on the floor and your wet hands all over the tool is more dangerous than a torch. but yes a hairdryer will work, even if it takes longer to dry the clay out. try to obtain a heat gun, they can pump out like 400 degrees and do a pretty good job if a torch is unavailable.
A hair dryer will work but be different. The heat generated is lower and it will the clay more time to dry out... what you want is just the skin to dry. The blow dryer will cause a thicker area to become dry. it works but not the same. the next step would be a heat gun used for stripping paint but are also a fire hazard and another expense. WHen you finish one send a picture, and leave those poor kitten alone
If the pieces are too big when the pot shrinks the glass will pop off or cause the pot to crack on the surface or through depending how big a chunk of glass or how deep it is in the surface.
thank you very much for the inspiration. I've just recently rediscover strecthing and I tried for the first time today, It was a nice coinscidense to see a video about this the very same day.
you can use the iron oxide or cobalt they both work nicely but you should also experiment with underglazes inbetween the cracks. i rakued several of these crack pots.
This is like a technique I do using liquid sodium silicate brushed on the outside of a ribbed cylinder, then dried with a heat gun and pressed from within as you did in the video. It causes similar cracks in the surface of the clay. Your method looks simpler since you don't have to deal with the sodium silicate, and more dramatic with the contrasting slip. Did you throw the walls a little thicker in order to keep from pushing through them when you pressed from within? How do you glaze these?
I had done it with SS as well but found it unnecessary I throw the walls as thin a possible. if I wanted a different look I would vary the thickness and dryness of the of the pot. These are typically wood fired so no glaze is applied if you check out a recent wooed firing video near the end you can see a few finished examples
Let me make sure I am understanding your technique...you use water base clay, and then paint red slip clay over it and then stretch out using torch, etc. Correct??? Donna
ahhh so i tried it today and i didnt get any of those sweet cracks all i got was little tiny ones all throughuot not nearly as cool but i used a heat gun and it was an underglaze not exactly a slip but basically do you know what could have gone wrong?
That was cool man! I hadn't seen that done yet. I don't think my college ceramics instructor would dig me torching a pot but I will use one of those industrial heaters that looks like a hair dryer. Thanks for ALL of the videos...I'm working on watching them all. You and Simon should win a prize for what y'all do; not pay taxes for a year or something! LOL....keep 'em coming, we love the videos.
I would joke about not paying taxes but I am going to do them today and it is not funny right now. A heat gun will work every variation is going to give a different look experiment.
is there any way that you could apply heat to the slip than the way that you did? i'm currently taking ceramics in high school and i don't have any machinery like that.
hi tim i add slip to freshly made pot and score through it and then push it out, it works pretty well. i use iron slip and also porcelain slip. i like your method though its cool. how do you fire your pieces. what glazes do u use. i have some good ash glaze recipes but u probably know plenty. been burning willow trimmings to make a nuka type glaze. cheers for vids i enjoy them
ah cool sorry 4 all questions i wood fire 2 but only for about 18 hours so most of my stuff is glazed i'd like to build a naborigama with the firebox for firebox type work and a glazed work chamber and a salt chamber. i am starting a website around march time after my next firing
No I love questions. I really love our kiln we did one firing the second to see how fast we could to it and we did it in about 18 hours cone 12 down around but not the finish we were looking for. How big of a kiln were you thinking of.
The glaze you use is "bleaching out" your iron if you are using a glaze like a clear that contain zinc you might loose alot of your iron where as if you use a glaze like a floating blue or a glaze that contains titanium or rutile the iron will react with the glaze giving you addtimonal dimension to your glaze. similarly if you are unhappy with a glaze color it might be the color clay you are using it on.
Didn't I ask you whose technique it was and you gave me a bunch of names? If I didn't post that question here, I really don't know where. I was ready to google those names now...
yes they still get bisqued. yep same kinda firing. most people are inclined to use a clear glaze. If you have a glaze that reacts to other metals like it changes depending on the claybody it is used on you might want to try it with the slip.
I made my first one last night! I forgot to torch it some more half way through, but it still came out nice. I tried to open it as much as I could, so now it looks like a tire, but still nice. I used white slip on "Black Mountain" clay. I want to make a lid for it, onionlike, or like the Cremlin tower tops, but dunno if I want to throw it upside-down off the stump (not my forte yet) or right side up and then make a hole at the base according to the rim of the pot.
Actually I could use some advice on that. I didn't have time for the lid last night, and my next class is tomorrow, and the pot will have shrunk a bit. Should I just throw my onion lid like Tim's teapot's body, but thick at the base, let it get leatherlike, and then punch a hole at the bottom as wide as the rim of the pot and trim off the extra thickness?
Nope not my idea, the first I saw it was with Randy Broznack (sp) in a PMI. I have seen others do it and I dont show any of ther variation on this but there are alot. Eric Serritella uses dry materail on the surface. He has also shown this tech. in PMI
Tried, but I guess I torched it too much. It wouldn't open. I put red oxide slip on white stoneware, then I made drawings with blue slip (circles, stars, lines) and made slits with a cutter along the drawings. It did do what I wanted, but I dried it too much to prevent the slips from bleeding,
so the torque twisted all my design, and I had a hard time opening the pot just from the inside. I guess it doesn't even count as stretched pattern anymore. Cool though. Looks like a thai carved watermelon.
That's what I told the clay, but I guess it was really too dry; I even sprayed the outside with water after slipping. Eventually it broke. Plus it was hard to make it round without controlling the movement from the outside, too. Then again, I made it with the first pot, that was softer...
Maybe if you slipped one color, then cracked a little, then slipped with something that combines nicely with the first, but is also nice on its own? Just how I would try it.
I have learned so much from watching tour clips from the beginners problems to the making of the stretched pattern! Been in a class where you have 2 hours and may have to wait 1 hour for a wheel..no structure and she just hasn't helped me NEAR as much as you..goin back in
with more knowledge and confidence to class this week.. THANKS TIM!! I'll get there!! ~
crowehead7 4 days ago
This is sick man. What kind of slip did you use? And is that porcelain?
skiman18100 1 week ago
the art of pottery is so intriguing, i may pick this up as a hobby
renskay1 4 weeks ago
hey tim! I am in a pretty beginning to intermediate ceramics class right now, in my third semester of working with clay, and second semester of working intensively on the wheel. I really would like to try this at some point, but we use very brown terracotta clay. would it be possible to do an alteration with this in the case of using the brown terracotta clay but instead of the iron oxide/slip, use a white clay slip on the red body? I'm interested in finding a way to make this work somehow.
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@AMES942 Of course you can do anything. It will look different and that really is better than getting just what I have done. you can use anything that will contrast to show of the effect but you can also do things that are a little bit closer in color to make a more subtle look.
timseepots 1 month ago
My fav part. "and then dry it" *thinks theres going to be a time lapse* *pulls out torch* :O lol.
1001001011011001 1 month ago
mmmm good technique but i cant tell how it would look when its fired..
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@acidfriend47 i also wished there was a picture or clip of the end result. :P
1001001011011001 1 month ago
you can also apply sodium silicate before putting the slip on it makes larger deaper cracks with less drying needed
sigmarthree 3 months ago
you make it look so easy
TaylorMarita 4 months ago
I saw that chinese guy do that technique! He is awesome!
nameralashun 5 months ago 3
@nameralashun Thanks for the encouragement!
timseepots 5 months ago
You've golden hands my friend! Love this video!
paloarteinc 6 months ago
That was beautiful... :)
Lizardatsparks 6 months ago
I like the outcome.. but more then that I really like HOW your demonstrations are. There are so many ppl that talk over things like the blow torch.. I'm REALLY glad you don't to that.
great job.
iMonkey78 8 months ago
lol four people don't like sunshine either.
Great video.
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tim i love this idea! ive been trying this out for the last couple weeks. do you have any tips for finishing up pots with the cracked pattern? ive been testing out stains on some pots that i did this pattern to without the slip but i'm stuck on how to finish my pots. any suggestions?
mayerpots 11 months ago
tim i love this idea! ive been trying this out for the last couple weeks. do you have any tips for finishing up pots with the cracked pattern? ive been testing out stains on some pots that i did this pattern to without the slip but i'm stuck on how to finnish my pots. any suggestions?
mayerpots 11 months ago
@mayerpots Well I have finished most of mine in our wood fired kiln. I really like how the surface erodes away and fills in on the ash side and stays crisper on the back. I have stained the cracks and done glazes that overlap with a lot of contrast... one one as the crackle and one after the bisque. take some care with glazes, some will do some odd things when applied to wet clay. but the best advice i can give is try anything, have some fun.
timseepots 11 months ago
can you make cracks that are deep enough to be seen under a glaze?
trixy650 1 year ago
ah man I can't wait until I get to college!! sooooo many things I need to try out! :D
gypsyjumper 1 year ago
sooo stokedd you showed me thatt!!!!
cabhaf 1 year ago
I've had an old teacher in high school who used oxides mixed with a silica the simply brushed on hit with blow drier, so it dried a bit you will find silica on the surface drys very quickly then actually putting your mouth the the open end and blowing into the form like a balloon and the outside you see the same type of cracking or splitting of the surface, gives you a great look
chibi41591 1 year ago
Love the effect.... cant wait to try it
ctx3614 1 year ago
Very nice job. First time I see this wat of doing cracked ceramic
tilerist 1 year ago
I would love to see the finished product. It looks so cool and want to try it myself.
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jomarsl 1 year ago
woow amaizing!!!
mordelonyleela 1 year ago
hmmm, i don't have a torch handy in my class-although that'd be awesome if we did-do u think this technique will work when tried with a hair dryer?
HipHopLilly 1 year ago
As a novice potter, I've been trolling youtube looking for any pottery informational videos. Found a few good ones but yours are my favorite so far!
slbw24 1 year ago
I've watched this video about six times and still am amazed! Thanks so much for all the time and effort you devote to putting up these inspirational videos!
claytotheelbows 1 year ago
Stunning stuff. Any where we can see finished and fired pieces?
GraigRussell 2 years ago
Awesome. I did this in my high school ceramics class that I teach. Pulling out the blow torch really woke them up. It worked wonderfully and I even have my second year students doing the technique. I always come to your videos for creative and fun ideas. Teenagers love to watch your videos too!
scubatam1 2 years ago
Unbelievable. I would never have known how to do that had you not made this video! Thanks!
NancyToday 2 years ago
fantastic idea! I will certainly try this
stvnswld 2 years ago
I am gonna have to try this! Thanks Tim!
barefoothandyman 2 years ago
If you're having trouble making the slip crack, as some sodium silicate (not much). When it is dried (even with a hair dryer), it get's egg shell hard and will crack.
ldruningman 2 years ago
Ok so I tried this twice yesterday at my ceramics class, but our black slip, and my professor's personal grey slip did not crack. I used a Heat gun to dry the slip, and may have not got it dry enough, but spent 3 minutes drying it and no cracking. just wondering what all is in your slip, and how dry i need to get it.?
imoimomw 2 years ago
It is just iron oxide and water and just a little clay. You need to use a torch it needs to dry quickly the out side surface should be bone dry. and if that does not work you can always have me come and do a workshop.
timseepots 2 years ago
Will try a torch next time, and I will also talk to my professor about having you visit. Thank you for responding so quickly. I did not get the slip to bone dry, will have to try that as well.
imoimomw 2 years ago
sorry i didnt see tims reply haha
ratmfan105 2 years ago
i think he said red iron oxide so for the red color and probably just clay slip so its not so runny, try drying it for longer, stop the wheel and lightly touch it, if it leaves a fingerprint then its still needs drying, and like the guy above, you can add sodium silicate to it and that will help, just wash and clean the brush because sodium silicate will harden and turn them bristles to rock, happened to me a few days ago
ratmfan105 2 years ago
Thanks for the video.
doriecronin 2 years ago
wow that looks amazing, i've never seen that technique done before
o0Jinxx0o 2 years ago
Bravo !!!! excelente trabajo, pero quien me informa que es lo que puso glaze(esmalte) o engobe???? CUANDO LOS DE HABLA HISPANA VAMOS A DIUSFRUTAR DE ESTOS VIDEOS EN CASTELLANO?¿?¿?¿?¿
Rafaelchocolate1 2 years ago
Muchas gracias, se trata de un deslizamiento aplicado el acabado de piezas de madera se disparó
timseepots 2 years ago
Effect reminds me a bit like naked raku without the raku. A new trick for my H.S. students. Thanks.
SweetSaltyHeat 2 years ago
I attempted this technique in the past, letting a thrown cylinder air-dry for 6 hours before attempting the cracks, but it didn't work. I never thought about using a torch, thanks for the tip!
rystog 2 years ago
uncommonly good. I love when it is something I haven't seen before!
abbyfaust 2 years ago
Great demo. Thanks!
doriecronin 2 years ago
Tim, do you need to use Na Silicate? After bisque can you glaze over this? Thanks! Ed
0emk1 2 years ago
nope it is not necessary for Na silicate but the look will differ play around with anything from sugar salt ... and anything else that will form a crust. yes you can glaze over them or leave them unglazed... you can try crackling glazes or staining the cracks too. lots of possibilities.
timseepots 2 years ago
that is so pretty. Your stuff is so nice Tim. Thanks for sharing.
offcenteredpotter 2 years ago
verry cool technique!!!! WAW!!!!
leeuw666 2 years ago
very cool technique. Thanks for sharing, I'm gonna try this soon :)
artangst 2 years ago 2
Well how did it go?
timseepots 2 years ago
thanks for sharing the video it was real good. thinking out side the box, thats what i liked most.
functionalmud 3 years ago
HI tim....another awesome demo from ya....thanx....can you tell me what the sodium silicate does? I am about to try this and i think im gonna do it with just a few layers of underglaze..will that work?
avidgolfr 3 years ago
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lexule 3 years ago
Hello it is a mix or Fe03 and the claybody I am using. Some people add a layer or sodium silicate before or after. Say hello to the other potters in the Czech Republic for me.
timseepots 3 years ago
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lexule 3 years ago
love it....does it make a dif if you do this on clay that will be fired in an electric kiln
ueyeguy 3 years ago
Nope shouldn't make a difference you might want to play with what you put on the surface to engage the way in which you plan on firing or glazing the piece
timseepots 3 years ago
Great video! I love the texture, will be trying this out shortly.
digidante 3 years ago
Would love to see a close-up so detail is easier to see. Beautiful pot!
nottonite 3 years ago
So cool. I have always wanted to see a demo of this technique...I'll try it tomorrow!
cdmudslinger 3 years ago
i wonder if the hairdryer would do the same work?
yyccc1618 3 years ago
It could but the faster the outside dries the wetter the inside stays and the stretch can be pushed further
timseepots 3 years ago
i like it, thanks for the lesson.
yyccc1618 3 years ago
i noticed that this whole video, u were off center! doesnt that bother u? i recycle pieces that r off center!
Brew4me111 3 years ago
once u become better the off center doesn't bother u anymore...plus some pro potters like it off center in order to show that it's human made.
asianx7 3 years ago
Great clip! I love the results! thanks :)
sullicorbitt 3 years ago
this is great i always wanted to do this kind of pot but my teacher wont let me use her torch and her red slip lol
youngpotter10 3 years ago
you can try a heat gun or a hair dryer with different results
timseepots 3 years ago
hi man help me please !i live un belize and i need to buy the belt for the lathe you have ,that is the same " brant c" i have .since i bought i practiced and then brok .can't work .tell me please,where i buy this(on line) and how you name it, to ask for it,thanks from belize,omar
semaforomaster 3 years ago
Umm we arent allowed to have a blowtorch at my highschool.... so could a hairdryer work?
WeAbuseKittens 3 years ago
ya but if you want to know, the idea of a blow dryer and water possibly on the floor and your wet hands all over the tool is more dangerous than a torch. but yes a hairdryer will work, even if it takes longer to dry the clay out. try to obtain a heat gun, they can pump out like 400 degrees and do a pretty good job if a torch is unavailable.
jubajivin 3 years ago
A hair dryer will work but be different. The heat generated is lower and it will the clay more time to dry out... what you want is just the skin to dry. The blow dryer will cause a thicker area to become dry. it works but not the same. the next step would be a heat gun used for stripping paint but are also a fire hazard and another expense. WHen you finish one send a picture, and leave those poor kitten alone
timseepots 3 years ago
very nice... haha. i love reading the comments on your videos... we're just a bunch of art nerds!!
messy1painter 3 years ago
GOOD stuff my friend!
Mikesclay 3 years ago
ok so here is my first comment... this is fantastic!
raemcclean 3 years ago
love this....can't wait to try it.
rossli55 3 years ago
what did u brush on the outside was it glaze or wat
Kautzk 3 years ago
can you use glass to put on a pot while its still wet so that when it dries it will stay there
sakicar 3 years ago
If the pieces are too big when the pot shrinks the glass will pop off or cause the pot to crack on the surface or through depending how big a chunk of glass or how deep it is in the surface.
timseepots 3 years ago
Very nice!!!!!!
mediativt 3 years ago
would it be possible to use a terracotta slip on stoneware?
colintheohockey 3 years ago
You can use just about everything that will stick to the outside of the pot. Try anything you can think of. its not gonna blow up.
timseepots 3 years ago
I just love that pot and keep watching over and over. Thanks for the demo!!!
ThatLynnGirl 3 years ago
thank you very much for the inspiration. I've just recently rediscover strecthing and I tried for the first time today, It was a nice coinscidense to see a video about this the very same day.
TheOriginaLinkoftime 3 years ago
great work! thx
leeuw666 3 years ago
i usually use sodium silicaate instead of slip and either iron oxide or cobalt oxide.
wolftuft 3 years ago
What's the ratio of metal oxide to slip when you make a colored slip?
Lightdety 3 years ago
you can use the iron oxide or cobalt they both work nicely but you should also experiment with underglazes inbetween the cracks. i rakued several of these crack pots.
wolftuft 3 years ago
that's awesome, thanks for the video!
HouseOfStrength 3 years ago
I love it! Looks kind of like fire. Could I just use terra cotta slip over white clay?
rawcarrotcake 3 years ago
yep it would show up just fine look ahead to how you want to glaze them though maybe a dark glaze instead of a slip could be nice.
timseepots 3 years ago
This is like a technique I do using liquid sodium silicate brushed on the outside of a ribbed cylinder, then dried with a heat gun and pressed from within as you did in the video. It causes similar cracks in the surface of the clay. Your method looks simpler since you don't have to deal with the sodium silicate, and more dramatic with the contrasting slip. Did you throw the walls a little thicker in order to keep from pushing through them when you pressed from within? How do you glaze these?
jcmudpuppy 3 years ago
I had done it with SS as well but found it unnecessary I throw the walls as thin a possible. if I wanted a different look I would vary the thickness and dryness of the of the pot. These are typically wood fired so no glaze is applied if you check out a recent wooed firing video near the end you can see a few finished examples
timseepots 3 years ago
hey tim- saaw you at allentown , great work and these videos are even better!@
richlan3 3 years ago
can u show a finished work i would like to see wat it looks like after firing and glazing
tuffskid 3 years ago
Let me make sure I am understanding your technique...you use water base clay, and then paint red slip clay over it and then stretch out using torch, etc. Correct??? Donna
donnadohogne 3 years ago
you got it.
timseepots 3 years ago
I love your videos :]
fashionvictim35 3 years ago
what kind of gas is used in that torch? would propane gas work?
jef8812 3 years ago
its a common propane torch for pipes.
timseepots 3 years ago
ahhh so i tried it today and i didnt get any of those sweet cracks all i got was little tiny ones all throughuot not nearly as cool but i used a heat gun and it was an underglaze not exactly a slip but basically do you know what could have gone wrong?
dudesweetpro 3 years ago
maybe not dry enough not stretched as far the pot could be too thin.
timseepots 3 years ago
Very cool! DO you use regular slip with the oxide added or commercial slip?
I am a novice and just learning!
niner58 3 years ago
you can use anything with color in it a glaze slip underglaze. use your imagination.
timseepots 3 years ago
Thank you! I am looking forward to trying it!
niner58 3 years ago
Tim,
That was cool man! I hadn't seen that done yet. I don't think my college ceramics instructor would dig me torching a pot but I will use one of those industrial heaters that looks like a hair dryer. Thanks for ALL of the videos...I'm working on watching them all. You and Simon should win a prize for what y'all do; not pay taxes for a year or something! LOL....keep 'em coming, we love the videos.
TinkTheHustler 3 years ago
I would joke about not paying taxes but I am going to do them today and it is not funny right now. A heat gun will work every variation is going to give a different look experiment.
timseepots 3 years ago
This looks fun! Thanks!
clearvision5 3 years ago
cool
natalialeunda 3 years ago
is there any way that you could apply heat to the slip than the way that you did? i'm currently taking ceramics in high school and i don't have any machinery like that.
321rocketmegan 4 years ago
A hair dryer but it would take much longer.
timseepots 4 years ago
butane lighter with a flexible neck (gas stations usually have them, might have to check a couple places to find one with a flexible neck.)
maxvan1 3 years ago
That was awesome. I can't wait to try it on Monday. Thanks so much for sharing.
Tess2Hrt 4 years ago
hi tim i add slip to freshly made pot and score through it and then push it out, it works pretty well. i use iron slip and also porcelain slip. i like your method though its cool. how do you fire your pieces. what glazes do u use. i have some good ash glaze recipes but u probably know plenty. been burning willow trimmings to make a nuka type glaze. cheers for vids i enjoy them
adamjonbeales 4 years ago
I wood fire so no glaze at all. The fifth wood firing video has a piece or two you can see finished at the end.
timseepots 4 years ago
ah cool sorry 4 all questions i wood fire 2 but only for about 18 hours so most of my stuff is glazed i'd like to build a naborigama with the firebox for firebox type work and a glazed work chamber and a salt chamber. i am starting a website around march time after my next firing
adamjonbeales 4 years ago
No I love questions. I really love our kiln we did one firing the second to see how fast we could to it and we did it in about 18 hours cone 12 down around but not the finish we were looking for. How big of a kiln were you thinking of.
timseepots 4 years ago
that is beautiful slip color....the clay from my yard is very deep red...but not this deep. im jealous
foxmill4life 4 years ago
Its red iron oxide mixed with a shino glaze. we are working on grinding our own rocks but not there yet.
timseepots 4 years ago
I noticed you used RIO slip. When I use RIO at cone 6 it always burns out leaving just a dirty white looking color...... Any suggestions? Thanks.
pottery55 4 years ago
The glaze you use is "bleaching out" your iron if you are using a glaze like a clear that contain zinc you might loose alot of your iron where as if you use a glaze like a floating blue or a glaze that contains titanium or rutile the iron will react with the glaze giving you addtimonal dimension to your glaze. similarly if you are unhappy with a glaze color it might be the color clay you are using it on.
timseepots 4 years ago
Didn't I ask you whose technique it was and you gave me a bunch of names? If I didn't post that question here, I really don't know where. I was ready to google those names now...
turuanu 4 years ago
OK, found it. Youtube has a funky way of displaying comments' history sometimes.
turuanu 4 years ago
Very enjoyable demonstration. Your techniques are ones I've never seen before and loved them. Thanks and keep making more videos!
Linnyloo100 4 years ago
wow, i like that a lot. your videos are very helpful, and some of those techniques i have never heard of. thanks.
Mauphynne 4 years ago
subscribe there will be more.
timseepots 4 years ago
Great video!
Does a pot that has been covered with slip or an engobe still get bisqued? Are these pots treated like every other pot (in terms of firing)?
I made a lovely engobe and used it on a few pots, but am kind of stalled out as I'm not sure what to do next....lol
bottlewasher37 4 years ago
yes they still get bisqued. yep same kinda firing. most people are inclined to use a clear glaze. If you have a glaze that reacts to other metals like it changes depending on the claybody it is used on you might want to try it with the slip.
timseepots 4 years ago
I made my first one last night! I forgot to torch it some more half way through, but it still came out nice. I tried to open it as much as I could, so now it looks like a tire, but still nice. I used white slip on "Black Mountain" clay. I want to make a lid for it, onionlike, or like the Cremlin tower tops, but dunno if I want to throw it upside-down off the stump (not my forte yet) or right side up and then make a hole at the base according to the rim of the pot.
turuanu 4 years ago
Actually I could use some advice on that. I didn't have time for the lid last night, and my next class is tomorrow, and the pot will have shrunk a bit. Should I just throw my onion lid like Tim's teapot's body, but thick at the base, let it get leatherlike, and then punch a hole at the bottom as wide as the rim of the pot and trim off the extra thickness?
turuanu 4 years ago
cant get my head around what it is you are explaining.
timseepots 4 years ago
No prob, figured it out. Thanks. I'll even make a video of it once it's fired.
turuanu 4 years ago
Fabulous bit of information, I also like the way you stretch it out,(the method)... Thanks!
quipquipquip 4 years ago
That's a really cool pot, thanks for sharing another great video. :-)
hsinggrandmom 4 years ago
Please let us see how this pot comes out fired! That effect is WAY COOL!
Marihani 4 years ago 2
I squished this pot after camera stopped. =(
timseepots 4 years ago
Nooooooo! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Okay - how about a picture of another pot that you did fire? *crossing fingers*
Marihani 4 years ago 2
there is one at the end of the 5th firing video
timseepots 4 years ago
Nice vid, Thanks for posting it.
ducktape01 4 years ago
That is REALLY BEAUTIFUL! Would you fire it as is or put clear glaze over it?
pensandcalls 4 years ago
Sorry, didn't mean to put this under ducktape's comment
pensandcalls 4 years ago
These are more often wood fired so they will be unglazed in the 5th firing video you can see an example of it at the end
timseepots 4 years ago
I LOVE it. The potential with clay seems infinite. Just wondering, is it your idea or a well known technique?
turuanu 4 years ago
Nope not my idea, the first I saw it was with Randy Broznack (sp) in a PMI. I have seen others do it and I dont show any of ther variation on this but there are alot. Eric Serritella uses dry materail on the surface. He has also shown this tech. in PMI
timseepots 4 years ago
How would you go about more layers of slip of different colors? Is it even feasible?
turuanu 4 years ago
Once a fissure is created it seems to crack and seperate there more slips may not show. your gonna have to try it.
timseepots 4 years ago
Tried, but I guess I torched it too much. It wouldn't open. I put red oxide slip on white stoneware, then I made drawings with blue slip (circles, stars, lines) and made slits with a cutter along the drawings. It did do what I wanted, but I dried it too much to prevent the slips from bleeding,
turuanu 4 years ago
so the torque twisted all my design, and I had a hard time opening the pot just from the inside. I guess it doesn't even count as stretched pattern anymore. Cool though. Looks like a thai carved watermelon.
turuanu 4 years ago
just gotta push and remember its only dirt
timseepots 4 years ago
That's what I told the clay, but I guess it was really too dry; I even sprayed the outside with water after slipping. Eventually it broke. Plus it was hard to make it round without controlling the movement from the outside, too. Then again, I made it with the first pot, that was softer...
turuanu 4 years ago
Maybe if you slipped one color, then cracked a little, then slipped with something that combines nicely with the first, but is also nice on its own? Just how I would try it.
Marihani 4 years ago 2
PMI?
Marihani 4 years ago
pottery making illustrated
timseepots 4 years ago
Tim, You're providing a valuable service by sharing all these tips and techniques. Thank you!
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cyberleesh 4 years ago