Using Iron Oxide to Salvage Bad Pots
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- This video is all about how I save poorly fired pots with layers of black, red and yellow ochre iron oxide. I use it like slip, brushing it over already fired vessels that didn't meet my expectations, then they're reduction fired again to 1290ºC. I show you the before and after, together will discussing various tips and tricks I've learnt through practicing this process.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
1:35 - Discussing why I choose to do this/which pots are selected
4:00 - Thanks to Richard Carter for the fabulous banding wheel ( / richardcarter6952 )
4:40 - Brushing black iron oxide on pots
6:33 - Brushing yellow ochre iron oxide on pots
8:14 - Packing the kiln for another reduction firing to 1290ºC
9:13 - Unpacking the kiln / finished examples
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I feel like good ceramics make people want to hold them. Mugs and plates and teapots and bowls are made for human hands. The size, weight, shape, and temperature of a vessel provide so much tactile feedback. I think the iron oxide adds something special for the fingertips. I would like to have a pot like this someday so that I can trace the swirls of texture with my own hands.
IMO the tactile aspect is so very important, even for non-functional and sculptural work that invites the urge to touch. The feel of a piece adds a whole other dimension.
Thank you so much for the extended chimes when the kiln opens. It's one of my favorite sounds.
for anyone wondering about doing this in cone 6 oxidation, ive had similar results using copper carbonate over/under clear glazes as an idea to try!
Absolutely love the black and green … mesmerizing
As someone who missed the last online shop update by like half an hour, I would buy the hell out of some blemished bowls or a vase😅
Loved the crackling sounds in the background, so much attention to detail in your editing too
I trimmed pots today in my very warm studio, as my kiln was firing a bisque load. I took a break and watched this video on my patio. I do not have a gas kiln and don’t plan on getting one (if I were younger, I would). But that does not mean I can’t experiment! I often do refires and come out with very interesting results. Then I tell the lovely people who buy them that it is nearly impossible to recreate that piece so they definitely have a one of a kind and no one else on the planet has one.
OMG. You did it again. Another great video that you give to this channel.
It's amazing how you are able to bring us such a great content and always with your very special approach to ceramic. So much admiration ❤
So much knowledge and beauty in one video. Love the effect glazes have your work. I wanted to fix an area on a piece I made that the glaze didn’t quite work. My friend/ colleague sprayed some hairspray on the parts I wanted to reglaze. She said it would help the glaze stick. Hope it works.
The first thing that came to my mind was 'Oh, it's basically an oil spot glaze' but you're right the black iron wash does give a feeling of motion and fluidity. Very nice work 👍
One part colemanite and one part rutile titanium oxide when brushed over an iron saturated glaze makes for some interesting results when fired in a reduced atmosphere.
Okay first of I never would have guessed I’d be jealous of a banding wheel but phwoar that’s a nice banding wheel. The iron oxide pots are also really lovely, I mean obviously the forms are great, but those results are so cool. Really want to give it a try
How do you handle visitors in your studio? I can't imagine people (especially strangers) just drop by unannounced. If I ever visited London, your studio would be a better destination than the london eye lol. Beautiful work, as usual, friend!
I would absolutely buy seconds… because I’m poor lol
Big poor. To make an analogy, I'd rather food a chef made that is slightly burned over a hot pocket.
Would love to see a white with black accent vase collection and maybe a opposite (black with white accent love your work and videos 😊
I have a pot which I hate the internal glazing of - absolutely doing this in the studio next week. It's only earthenware and isn't reduction but I think it could be interesting anyway
Mucking about with oxides is my favourite thing. Black copper is my usual but clearly I should branch out!
Thank you again for the mesmerizing and informative videos.
So beautiful 🙌🏻 thank you for sharing ❤
Beautiful work. Really looks like an art piece
re: iron oxide sticking to glaze, have you tried sanding the glaze before applying? a quick once-over with a fine sanding pad/paper on the banding wheel might improve application and help even out defects. helps with paint over gloss, might work with glazes too.
Excellent idea!
Beautiful !
i love this, instead of just scrapping the things that arent perfect we try to recycle them. im also sure many people would take the failures as an ornimant or art piece. we look so much for perfections and with AI we assume everything is perfect. but in the world of AI we humans search for the human element of the broken pot and the refired pot. something otherwise imperfect is perfext in a world of computational perfection
Double doggie sighting! That regal pose at 22 seconds! Delightful! (PS: I can only dream of making "flawed" pots such as yours! Those colors at the end are fabulous!)
Those macro shots towards the end....
Very nice. I have a pot... or maybe dozen, I just might have to try that on. One thing I've done on occasion and have gotten very nice results from is draping or wrapping fine strands of electrical copper wire on my pots, which like the heavy iron I would not recommend for use with foods or in a microwave, but it does leave a very what I consider attractive pattern. The issue of copper vaporizing hasn't been an issue so far. I have as yet to try it with a fine gauge iron wire; silver wire might be worth trying too.
Wow beautiful ❤
I never sell anything that I would consider seconds so this is a great way to avoid those "lost" pots. This video answered so many of my questions about using iron oxide. I fire at a community studio to cone 10 reduction and I never know what's safe or not when experimenting with things. I'd love to start trying glaze on the inside and iron oxide on the outside but only firing once. I'm assuming that this would be food safe since the glaze would be on the inside?
Still waiting on that crimson clay fired!
I have to wonder what interesting patterns might occur if you were to use all three types of oxide in different measures. It might be beautiful.
Second viewer of new Florian Gadsby video, yes! Let’s goooo!
If I had money I would by one of your beautiful pieces
You and the rest of the channel :P
Why do I find something I will never ever try (or buy, not really in my budget haha) so interesting?... it can't just be the noodledog
i would love to see a copper oxide used
This is purely a thought with no basis on whether it would succeed or even be possible, but if you were to put a touch of iron powder, fine powder as opposed to coarse spangles, into an iron oxide coating, I wonder how that would potentially turn out?
What would happen if you brushed these iron glazes on for the first firing? Would the firing still yield these interesting streaks of molten metal even without the "slippery" underglaze, or would the porous material absorb it better?
Waiting for some charitable soul to point towards some version of this that I can use in an electric kiln / oxidizing atmosphere 😅
I’d say experiment on some wonky pots, you could try adding a flux to the iron oxide
See comment above about copper carbonate! ☺️
Are iron oxide pots food safe?
I do like a red iron oxide wash especially on Kurinuki pieces I’ve done. That can be metallic looking. I’ll have to try this out. Thanks
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I wonder about copper, nickel, or cobalt oxides and how those would fire up. A red or blue might stand out nicely against your base green.
Are they food safe?
I doubt it, I discuss this a bit more towards the end of the video.
florian trying to get me to not eat soup out of his fancy bowls...
The black oxide looks almost identical to Amaco’s Potter’s Choice Saturation Metallic glaze when fired in oxidation. Anyone wanting this look should try that if you’re restricted to oxidation firing
11:11 they remind me of the stretchmarks you'd see on hips and thighs, and they really are pretty arent they?
those also are sometimes shimmery at the right angle ✨
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For the algorithm.
Without a cam, don't do anymore.Cause it's not gonna stick miss
It's enough planet black and red subway firing glades
If only they were microwave safe