Joseph Fireborn

Hope you share more later about this new method and pics of the texture. Actually, I did not know what "crackle slip" is, but I found this snippet online, which includes a recipe...is yours real different? Just curious.  http://www.potters.org/subject15984.htm

Lee.

I posted a picture yesterday of my slip on a greenware pot. It doesn't have the crackles yet because it doesn't crack until I have fired it. Here is a picture: 

The slip decoration alone adds a lot of texture to the pot, all the tiny holes from my brushing technique, then on top of that it will form cracks and large "mud" cracks which resemble dried earth. If you look in my gallery you can see some recent work that shows that under stoneware pots.

I don't use a recipe. I use a clay with a high shrinkage rate with some chemicals added to it. A lot of trial and error.

I also just posted a picture on instagram of a platter/bowl that has been bisqued and shows the micro cracks starting.

Good luck, hope it all goes well! 

@Judith B Thanks. I have a while. November 28th to get three good drinking vessels. So I am just going to start saving the best of each of my kiln loads and then submit sometime in november. 

Wow fascinating, thank you for sharing!

Thanks Marcia.

Congrats Joseph!

Enjoy, learn much!

Wow-what an opportunity--good for you!

Joseph, pot is illegal.

Someone should tell all these potters that.

Unloaded a kiln of goblets for my aunts Agape youth retreat, mowed the lawn and then watched movies with my wife and brother Booter the rest of the night. We made vegan nice-cream. Hope you had a safe holiday also.

Are you ready to reveal the process?

Your process and the learning curve to get there, would make a good CM article.

I was inspired today and can't wait to get my big raku built. Materials are on the way.

nice nice! can't wait to see the tiles.

Nice. I plan on eventually adding more color to my work, but for now I am going to just explore these white/grey/brown tones.

Need to do that.

Congrats on the 3 year mark-is that 3 years with clay from scratch 3 years ago?

Yes. I have never touched potter until three years ago. I was bored out of my mind and needed something to do. Got addicted. It has been awesome. Mostly because of everyone here.

maybe. still have a lot of work to do to find components that go with the glaze. A darker version to spray over, modifiers and fake ash glazes. but yea. the journey for a base might be near. which makes me happy tbh.

At the end of the road lies another. Unless it's a dead end xD

Or your driveway. = )

Next time you are on the wheel, try dipping your finger into rio and make finger marks. See if it does any thing for you.

Beware, underglaze can be addictive. Use with caution!

I will try that Nerd. Roberta, we will see!

And this is why it's called a process!

Aye! I enjoy the process more when I make things I love. I love yunomi. Thin beautiful cups. I figure I can apply to other cup shows in 2018 besides AKAR. There is one called SIP. I believe there are others as well. So I might be applying to a lot of those in 2018!

I have had a far more difficult time getting my glazes right than any other aspect of ceramics. I rarely have issues of any kind with the making process, if I'm going to have a problem it's always with the glazing. It can be really discouraging and the journey to success is different for everyone. It's such a disappointment when time after time you open the kiln and the results you see don't match the one you were going for.

Giselle. I can get my glazes pretty good now. I struggled with replicating results for a long time. But now my real problem is just picking a glaze and sticking to it. Although maybe it isn't a real problem. I do need to start using some glazes on actual work and listing it online for sale. I think I am just going to make yunomi and cups with handles for a while. They are my favorite to make anyways.

I tend to stick to about a half-dozen glazes, I don't think that's too many. How many do you have?

Thanks Denice. Roberta: good news!

I read it when I was starting out formulating my own glazes. It's a great book.

Smoke'em if you got 'em....

Enjoy.

I had a good time. Main focus is building a small .5# shape that I can experiment with and spray glaze test on after I finish with the tile part of the testing. The bottle I have developed I think will work well for this.

Whew... Done! Now I have blackish/grey kiln shelves. The corelite shelves held up a lot better than the cheap ones that I bought a while back. Those are like the ocean now. The corelite ones you can't even tell a grinder was on them. When I finished I patted my clothes off and it was a white dust storm. The sky was blocked and my dog yelped because she was scared of the sudden darkness.

Sorry man, I moved it down here to South Texas.