Carole Fox on wed 4 jun 03
Hi Kelly. You can probably do naked raku without too much worry. It is a
process where you cover the bisque pot with a thick coat of a refractory
slip, then a coat of clear glaze. When you pull the pot from the kiln, the
glaze crackles. If you are quick to thoroughly seal your reduction chamber,
you will not have much smoke. In the reduction chamber, the carbon will
penetrate the slip where the glaze has crackled.
After your pot has cooled, you can chip off the coating of glaze and slip
and you will have a cool pattern of white and black crackles on the surface.
Looks really nice on terra sig. Dave Roberts has done some BEAUTIFUL pots
with this method. You should definitely check out his work. He makes
incredible coiled pots. Your jaw will drop.
Now, I remember reading an article about this potter who did a variation of
this method. He brushed a sugar solution on the pot and I recall it seemed
to accentuate the black. Of course I stupidly lent this magazine out and it
was never returned so I cannot give more detail. (Hey- if anyone has this
article, I'd love to know more!!)
Well, congrats on the kiln and remember that you can set it up to do raku
and still use it for the other firing methods that you mentioned.
Carole Fox
Elkton, MD
thesilverfox@dol.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "primalmommy"
> Here's my question: now that I have this fun, fast, cheap new toy (so
> unlike my cavernous, expensive, predictable electric) -- what can I do
> with it? I appreciate the raku of others but have no driving need to
> make the traditional kind, especially as I am a bit over-cautious about
> toxic glaze materials or fumes (especially with the kids/nest of
> birds/veggie garden nearby.)
>
> I DO love saggar fired stuff, terra sigs and salt fired stuff, little
> artifacty looking pieces and shiny black smothered-bonfire stuff like
> Vince does... I love the idea of Dannon's paper saggars, and like the
> look of crackled white glaze and smoky marks. I am wondering what "naked
> raku" is about. I'm guessing it's not like Soldner's naked claymixing,
> naked partygoing, naked everything else... (as much as I have come to
> love it) ... I'm guessing that for raku one would at least require
> asbestos underwear. It might be impractical for those (thank you janet)
> "dangly bits". Anyway, I am off to the archives to explore new
> possibilities... and would appreciate any ideas for what to look up!
>
> Yours, Kelly Averill Savino in Ohio... now able to find just the right
> maturation point for my local clay without spending a fortune firing a
> big, almost-empty kiln to test it.. packing my bags for Lacrosse
> already!
>
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Marta Matray Gloviczki on mon 30 jun 03
primalmommy wrote:
>I am wondering what "naked
>raku" is about. I'm guessing it's not like Soldner's naked claymixing,
>naked partygoing, naked everything else... (as much as I have come to
>love it) ... I'm guessing that for raku one would at least require
>asbestos underwear. It might be impractical for those (thank you janet)
>"dangly bits". Anyway, I am off to the archives to explore new
>possibilities... and would appreciate any ideas for what to look up!
kelly,
i think you just have to ask a question and everybody jumps. how do you do
that? :-))
well, at claytimes magazine they must have heard your question and they
quickly run an article on naked raku. there are some fabulous pictures of
wally asselberghs' pots and recipes too! congrats wally!
---claytimes july 03---
marta
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