Russel Fouts on mon 23 nov 98
I should be getting ready for my exhibition but the studio is cold (-3c
outside) and the clayart is warm.
I caught the last 3/4 of a japanese move a couple of months ago, the
characters were the (head of) Sen no Rikyu, Oribe, and Hideyoshi. In the
movie Oribe is shown pulling a hot tea bowl directly from the hot kiln a la
japanese Raku. I've heard of a lot of things done to get just the right
Oribe green, including soaking in strong acid over night but never this. Can
anyone say whether this is accurate or not?
BTW, it was a great movie! Wish I knew what the title was. Oribe was the
mentor to a wonderful, heroic princess.
Russel
(Sen no Rikyu's head was probably attached earlier on in the movie but I
joined late)
Russel Fouts
Mes Potes & Mes Pots
Brussels, Belgium
32 2 223 02 75
Http://users.skynet.be/russel.fouts
Http://www.japan-net.or.jp/~iwcat
Exhibition: http://www.stjohns.be/misc/Fouts.htm
Grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference.
Donn Buchfinck on tue 24 nov 98
the way I was taught about oribe is that you fire it in reduction like all the
other glazes and then you oxidise at the end . If you take an oribe pot and
go through the surface you will see that it is copper red undernieth.
so the oxegen hits the pot and changes the red to green on the surface of the
pot.
I would think that firing the glaze with the iron saturates, witch need a
lighter reduction would help the glaze, but I have seen the glaze come out
great with shino on the same pot
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