Marcia Selsor Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 Have you everyone a crazy experiment? What were you thinking? What happened? Did you proceed from there or forget about it? marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzine Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 Yep, took a hot, glazed Raku piece, and used a hollowed out pumpkin as a reduction vessel. That's where I stopped then, because it was late last Fall, and was my only leftover pumpkin. I've got a good size one, from the garden, I may try this Fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted September 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 I remember your posts about that. Must have smelled better than normal raku! marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyndham Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 Yea, I took a pottery class, quit my day job and been up to my eye balls in clay ever since . I figure it'll be another 100 yrs before I figure out if it was crazy or not. Wyndham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted September 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 That is why so many potters are centenarians! Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzine Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 That is why so many potters are centenarians! Marcia Because they enjoy it so much, or because they are still proving to everyone that it wasn't a crazy decision? And I really don't recall the smell of the burning pumpkin. I'd like to say that it smelled like pumpkin pie, but that probably wasn't the case. I was also doing some traditional (Well, Western "Traditional") Raku in reduction with newspaper. So I mostly smelled that. The one I did last Fall, I tried drying the pumpkin a bit, after cleaning it out. This year, I will do no clean at all. I will leave all the strands, seeds and general "guts". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 That is why so many potters are centenarians! Marcia Because they enjoy it so much, or because they are still proving to everyone that it wasn't a crazy decision? And I really don't recall the smell of the burning pumpkin. I'd like to say that it smelled like pumpkin pie, but that probably wasn't the case. I was also doing some traditional (Well, Western "Traditional") Raku in reduction with newspaper. So I mostly smelled that. The one I did last Fall, I tried drying the pumpkin a bit, after cleaning it out. This year, I will do no clean at all. I will leave all the strands, seeds and general "guts". It would be so cool if there was a pumpkin face too so the smoke and flames would shoot out! Talk about doing dumb stuff, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzine Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 That would indeed be cool Chris. Sadly, even the partially dried pumpkin, I used, last year didn't produce really any fire. Too much moisture still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyndham Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Benzine,try coating the inside with wax. Build up a nice thick layer, I think fire will make it's appearance. Wyndham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 I went on a field trip to an art college in my last semester of high school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudslinger Ceramics Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Oh YES!!!....drove my instructors, kiln technicians and fellow students mad at college firing all sorts of things in the kilns to 'see what happens'....... ......steel at 1280C liquifies and burns through the kiln shelves destroying everything in its path ......hay/papers/woods/leaves/seaweeds etc smoke out the kiln sheds and encourage the college neighbours to phone the fire brigade ......tin/chrome formulas made whole kiln loads turn out puce-y red affecting everyone elses work as well....not popular ......the leftover slops glaze that ran and glued everyone's work to the kiln shelf ......the crackle glaze applied over a glassy parian clay body that ripped all the work apart in cooling ....etc, etc, etc.....I spent my whole undergrad experimenting rather than producing a coherent body of work, I wanted to know what 'everything' did knowing I would not have such a fully resourced ceramics studio and college library again when I graduated so wanted to learn as much as possible,..... still experiment but far more carefully now! Irene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 I am constantly in the "let's see what happens" mode ... currently firing a whole load of porcelain in that mode right now. Do not intend to ever stay on that straight and narrow 'proven' path. I stay away from dangerous ingredients and combinations ... I know enough to do that ... but if it is just a case of trying something new ... I'm in. Every once in a while it comes together beautifully and you've made a beautiful work of Art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Follow up note .... just unloaded the kiln and it worked!!!!! Thanks to Evelyne who sent me a pdf of a technique at just the right time .... I fired my balloon shapes upside down and it worked. Woohoo! Learned that I have to be more careful on support location, but am very happy I took the risk and fired them all that way. Phew .... next?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 Follow up note .... just unloaded the kiln and it worked!!!!! Thanks to Evelyne who sent me a pdf of a technique at just the right time .... I fired my balloon shapes upside down and it worked. Woohoo! Learned that I have to be more careful on support location, but am very happy I took the risk and fired them all that way. Phew .... next?? Bigger ballooons?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 Been there ! Bigger balloons did not shrink as well and the pots cracked from shrinkage no matter how slowly I dried them ... still don't know why as there was plenty of air space at the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 Right, silly me I should have known you would have started at the extreme end!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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