Mixed results

[morgaina]

I smell like burnt chicken feathers.
This is because I got close enough to put a lot of horsehair on hot saggar pots before they cooled.


The black strips are dried banana strips the blue stuff is Miracle
Gro (ammonium phosphate). The two amphorae are mine, one with red terra sigilatta the other with white terra sig. The other pot was made by another guild member.


The firing in progress.


*sigh* the broken amphora had about the prettiest surface color I have seen in a saggar pot. My vase next to it would probably have been OK, but we took it out of the saggar firing with raku tongs and scarred the surface, so it gets the hammer too. *sigh*


The little black squiggly marks on this amphora are where I leaned in there and put horsehair on it. It was very hot as can be judged by the glowing coals. I thought this was going to be my best pot, but there is a hairline crack across the middle of this one. So another failure learning experience.

We had to leave before the rest of the pots cooled enough to be removed from the barrel, but I have great hopes for one and think another will be OK.
It was exciting anyway and am thinking of doing a saggar firing here at the house and am going to try the amphora shapes in it again.

Comments

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

I am being too judgemental, but the woman's shapes and glazes seemed to cry out for a nice porcelain.

[hroar.livejournal.com]

I can understand that...and it sounds like it.
Its a strange world!