Overview
Explore the entire process of creating unique crimson pots in this 23-minute pottery video. Follow along as red stoneware is blended with an iron body and mixed with bronze filings, then topped with a new metallic crimson glaze. Learn about clay blending, throwing, trimming, bisque firing, waxing, glaze mixing and application, kiln packing, reduction firing, and finishing techniques. Discover the step-by-step journey from raw materials to the final reveal of these experimental ceramic pieces.
Syllabus
- Introduction, blending clays & bronze filings
- A recap of the throwing & trimming
- Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºC
- Waxing the vases
- Mixing up the glaze
- Glazing the vases
- Cleaning up the glazed wares
- Packing my Rohde KG-340 gas kiln
- Firing my gas kiln in reduction to 1290ºC
- Unpacking the kiln & grinding the pots bases
- The finished vases! Finally
Taught by
Florian Gadsby