Love, love, love how this style demands your involvement in the entire process.
Can you believe I fire pottery like this with my teenage students.
Love, love, love how this style demands your involvement in the entire process.
Can you believe I fire pottery like this with my teenage students.
Now I am REALLY jealous! What a fun job! Thatโs super fun!!!
Your high school has a whole class devoted to ceramics?? Iโm quite envious. If I want to do it now I have to take a class through my rec center. Iโm considering it.
This piece is just lovely, stunning, awesome, marvelous, gorgeous, you name it. I like how you left the exposed part to showcase the differences. Do you use your pots or are they purely decorative?
This is stunning. Love that finish.
Think of Raku as decorative, not functional (functional in the pottery world means food safe). During the firing process, the thermal shock can cause the clay and glaze to crack or craze. Many Raku glazes contain metal oxides like chromium oxide, copper, and lead. Those materials are toxic if consumed, and can leach out of the pottery making it unsafe to place food or liquid. So this beauty is sitting on my motherโs mantel full of pennies collected over the years
Ah, good to know. My pottery knowledge is pretty much nil other than I appreciate it.
Right? When I was in high school, we had art and there was a dusty old kiln over in the corner. He fired it maybe twice a year.
At her school, each student needs at least one art credit, and it can be from any of the arts (fine arts, performance, etc.). They have photography (with a dark room! ), art, and ceramics. The classes are 90 minutes long, too, which is amazing.
Ugh, Iโm SO ENVIOUS!
Hey, you donโt live far from us. If you are ever in AZ, weโll make it a playdate (with fire)!
I am coming to AZ for geowoodstock in Mayโฆ but not enough time in the day!
Another trip must happen!
Congratulations! Your radiant Raku Burst Pot is a Featured Project this week!
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Beautiful results! Iโve taken pottery classes in the past but never had the chance to do raku. I love the shimmer and iridescence!
Stunning pottery!
That is so lovely! I adore seeing the process pics and learning how the pot was made. Thank you for sharing that!
Stunning!
Wow, this is so gorgeous!!
Thank you!
Bravooo!!!
Super cool! I just signed up for a Raku workshop with a local artist as my birthday gift to myself. It sounded interesting, though I had no real idea what it was. This helps me understand more what Iโve signed myself up for.