timbo_heff Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Worth a watch ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 This one, too. I like the part about a potter must first make his/her own tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzine Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 It looks like Mark has some competition for tumble stacking, and Marcia for Obvara, in that first video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyne Schoenmann Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Both are very interesting videos. I've just learned a bunch of new things.Thanks for sharing! Does anyone understand what exactly the Tibetan master uses for sealing the pots? I understand: barley powder and yoghurt xxx...... Evelyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Barley powder and yogurt whey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Miller Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Thanks for posting these! Both are excellent, but I found the first video especially inspiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyne Schoenmann Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 bciskepottery: thanks very much! I'am sure it's hard to get yoghurt whey... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChenowethArts Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 This one, too. I like the part about a potter must first make his/her own tools. I think I have seen a post on the forum about 'favorite tools'...and I even when someone gives me a new 'toy', I still seem to gravitate back to the simple tools that I made by hand. Great documentary. I know first hand from taking students overseas, that these experiences are absolutely life-changing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo_heff Posted February 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 I hand-built this yesterday after watching the African documentary above. Did the technique of pushing and turning it into a round mold : Foot ring from the same mold.Went a little kooky with the decorations, but a just for learning pot anyway. (white stoneware with a little grog. banana for scale) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzine Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Timbo, that's awesome. I really like the surface decorations. Did you mix the clay with your feet as well? You were much more productive, in the studio than I was. I wanted to get going on a couple projects, before moving snow. The projects are still in the sketching stage..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clay lover Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Timbo, way cool , and a very realistic banana you have there! (can I say that on this board?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo_heff Posted February 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Here's another shape using those African pinched into mold tricks... a couple mixing bowls lined with supermarket plastic as the forms. Then joined and paddled: ( neck's not trimmed and attached yet.) Busy pottery weekend: almost made two pots : wow... on fire... going to get to retire early after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyne Schoenmann Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Timbo: congrats on the two very nice works you did "African style". You had a busy weekend. I forwarded the video to friends. We can really learn again how to do pottery from scratch. Thanks again for sharing. Evelyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 bciskepottery: thanks very much! I'am sure it's hard to get yoghurt whey... I get yoghurt whey when I drain yog. in a cheesecloth to make Labka cheese, whey collects in the bowl below and you are left with a thick white cheese in cloth which you can roll in herbs or store in balls in herbed olive oil. Nice pots TImbo Lets see the decorated, fired pots! Highly priced one -offs? Gotta wait for time to view the long video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Reed Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 I intended on just watching a few minutes of this and before I knew it the hour plus was over. Thanks for sharing this fascinating documentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Reed Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 I also watched the other on Tibetan black ware. If I was an apprentice making my own tools the first two things I would make is a flat table and a rolling pin. this sure would speed up the Yak Butter Teapot making process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron&Jillian Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 I have watched this video 3 times now and I learn more each time. Every time I hit a bump in the road with my creative process in pottery, I now say,...if a little African woman with hardly any tools and no Kiln can do it so can I! What a vision and what a journey to watch. I very much appreciated the work it took to do this video. Thank You Jillian A Potter's Dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 I also watched the other on Tibetan black ware. If I was an apprentice making my own tools the first two things I would make is a flat table and a rolling pin. this sure would speed up the Yak Butter Teapot making process. Somehow I get the feeling they are not interested in how fast they can make it, but in the making of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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