I think your videos are the most interesting i have seen about ceramics. I'm more into without glaze solutions because i am fearful about glazing yet. But at the same time i really like the clay as a material itself. And i am so fond of ancient pottery. I'm so happy that i met your channel. Thanks!
You'res are the first ever pottery videos that I've actually sat and watched. The native American part, the history and the practicality caught my attention. I have never been interested in pottery before and I'm in my 50's. It was the water cooling jug that first caught my attention, very important in this day and age to find non electric ways to stay cool.
Iv been artifact hunting all my life . Iv been wanting to dig my own clay and make pottery the native way. Your videos have me excited!!! Can't wait for it to get warm outside
I prefer when it’s cold so I don’t have to worry about so many weeds and organics getting in my dirt, also I feel like it’s easier to get to clay deposits when there’s not a huge brush over it
The rough knobs on the first pot would let you move it around when hot with a set of wooden tongs with out getting burnt . The wood tongs would fit between them ever how you placed it and they would stop it from slipping out of your grip . You have done a great job delivering this information, thanks .
The third pot, big almost looked like Grandma had her grandkid sitting with her and she let him decorate the pot. That would explain the crude/unevenness of it. I remember when my grandma taught me how to hoe the garden, mow the yard, get firewood and coal, weed the banks, etc, all before I was four. I can remember back to 3 years old working alongside her. Her Grandmother was Cherokee and I learned some plants/medicines from her too. I'll bet that is why this survived also, it was a keepsake/protected item.
Thank you so much for this video! It has inspired me to try different decorative methods on my work. Only been potting for a year but I am getting a bit bored with straight turning on my pots and relying on wax and glaze for the decorative element. Thank you again!
my first thought w/ the 'datura effigy pot' before you said anything about it was, 'oh, what a nice way to secure a textile around the outside so that you can handle the pot while its contents are extremely hot'. and then you explained it, and... I'm even more convinced that it's probably what I first thought. I mean, for one, it only looks like a datura seed pod if you've never seen one irl, which means this hypothesis was probably made by someone working from their office in Chicago or something. for another, why don't they continue onto the bottom? if it's simply a bowl made to look like a datura seed pod, then it should have spikes all around, including on the bottom, and in that position they could be useful as legs to make its resting position more stable. but... if you're avoiding legs then it probably means you're doing something else with the bottom of the pot, like heating the contents through the bottom.
Good thoughts about this pot, thanks for sharing. You are right, too many of these ideas are made by people sitting at a desk with little or no experience of using pottery in real life.
Torri Hoopes corrugated pot is magnificent, I really, really like it! I couldn't catch this live feed, but I really enjoyed this video! Thanks again Andy!
This video was an awesome find. My logic is simply, how much would I had to pay to either go to school to learn this or by going to a talk to hear it? Probably a few hundred bucks, plus the time... So thanks for your work.
This is a great lesson. I became interested in ceramics because of archaeology. A guy from Mata Ortiz named Jeraldo used to come up to Sonoma County to teach. Their pots are amazing.
In another life I was Native American. I have always had a connection with natives. Love their culture. Excited to make something good from Mother Earth. Thank you again for educating me
Another interesting method that was common in the Southeast regions was stamped pottery where they would use a paddle and carve a design into it and press it all over the pottery.
Enjoying this. Obviously from a while back. I look forward to seeing you live soon. I got into clay by just getting it for my son and niece and nephew on our fun weekend nights and have recently been interested in getting into on an adult level. I'll keep watching and thank you so much
In reference to the question about Swedish pottery, I have information about Lithuanian primitive pottery that is still being made and sold. Reputed to be hard as iron. I’ll email you the article.
Maravillosas piezas. Lástima que no entiendo lo que dice. Por lo que creo entender esas piezas que usted hace, son réplicas o inspiradas en otras antiguas. Se vale de un cuenco como soporte para trabajar, en vez de una torreta. Es una maravilla. Un trabajo excelente. Enhorabuena.
Thank you for sharing these tips! Nice to finally understand all the different ways of decorating pottery. Have you ever worked with air dry clay/self hardening clay? If so, can you give us any tips?
Thanks Colleen! Yes people often get into the habit of doing things the same way, it's fun to break out of those boxes sometimes and do something different. Which clay almost anything is possible.
Do not know if you answer past vids...but have you heard of stuccoing cook pots... Mixing grog/ temper into a thick slip, then applying it to the green ware pot. Made a paddle and anvil pot in the late 1980 that i was inspired by a Yuman pot saw, that I used many times for camp fire beans and stews...thank you for your sharings.
Yes, I try to answer all comments with a few exceptions. I have never heard of or seen any of this stucco ware. I would think that the advantages as cooking pots would be similar to that for corrugated pottery.
@@AncientPottery yup ~ I think some times it may have to do with whatever is happening up there with the satellite and not with us humans here on the ground!!
My primitive self would have liked to have kept the camber pots separate from my cooking pots if for no other reason than to keep strange flavors from permeating my porridge. Corrugating would make it obvious. Another thought about corrugation - perhaps it provides a good grip when chances of being wet, which is what happens when you use a clay pot over an open fire. Hot liquids with a fat skim would provoke me to produce cooking pots with good grip even if I do have a great hide hot mitten.
Revere also made or makes tinned solid copper pans, several of which I inherited from my Aunt. The tinning is done to prevent coppe-contaminated-food, but the Revere stainless steel and copper-bottomed pots and pans were state-of-the-art for more than three decades, until PBS introduced restaurant-quality AllClad, one of the earliest to trend by upping conductivity by sandwiching more layers - you guessed it - toward the bottom, similar to the copper-bottom. That happened in the '80s. Will thhat grow up the sides of pots (priced much higher) to edge-up to the high-end-trend? My eyes are open.
Hi from Dover UK! what is the organic paint made from- something that has boiled down, but the recording skipped so i dont know what. Beautiful pieces thank you for sharing so much fascinating and beautiful work, Caroline
Thank you. The organic paint can be made from a variety of boiled down plant material. Traditional among the Pueblos is Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, I like to use mesquite beans or yucca fruit. This video has more info about organic pottery paints ua-cam.com/video/6UjO_W85So0/v-deo.html
Hi Andy. Love your videos. Inspiring & informative. My question is: You mentioned not to glaze over a burnished pot. Is that a general statement or would a ^10 burnished claybody not accept a ^10 glaze? Or does burnishing the clay alter the glaze fit during the firing?
I have no idea about technical aspects of glazing over burnishing because I have never glazed my pottery. When I said not to glaze over burnishing I merely meant that all the work of burnishing would be for nothing if you covered it up with glaze.
I wonder if corrugation allows for better cooling on the outside after cooking. Easier to handle? Maybe its a quicker build they figure may as well use to cook where its going to get burned and dirty anyway.
An archaeologist did some experiments to determine the practical benefits of corrugated pottery. He determined that it makes cooking pots last longer without cracking and breaking from all the heating and cooling that a cooking pot goes through.
@@AncientPottery I won't say it isn't necessarily true until I have actually tested it, but as someone who studied some material science in college that seems counter intuitive, usually it is preferable to minimize the number of potential stress risers to reduce the risk of crack propagation rather than doing the inverse.
Would love to see you do some polychrome design painting, maybe examine some typical patterns, how to get brighter colors etc? Love ALL your videos Andy!
I use a mix of cement and All Purpose sand to make different pots. I add a little white glue to help with something. Latex paint can be added for color. I sometimes add slip to make it smoother. This has to be cured wet sealed in a plastic bag for about two weeks. Grout power can be used to drizzle color on it with latex paint. Will need to be cured again. Water proof and very hard.
Could you talk about the pottery of Maria in new mexico and her black pottery, I believe that she used animal dung to fire her pots to turn them black.
I love Maria's pottery. I talk about her a little in several videos, here is one ua-cam.com/video/Lc7Fb2epkh8/v-deo.html But because I am focused on recreating ancient pottery and hers was more contemporary Pueblo potter, our paths are a little different.
Giveaway Only 300- til 15k :) This video opened my eyes to a few decorating techniques I hadn't seen before. Our ancient pottery here in the Eastern Woodland Region (North Eastern US and South Eastern Ontario Canada) most of our pottery was never painted. Most are incised or carved with reed or other sharp sticks. Or paddled onto a smooth pots via carved wooden paddles with different designs upon them. I really love the look of the pottery that's fully burnished and then parts of the greenware carved away. Very stunning
No I don't. Slip is just liquid clay, so unlike glazes, they really aren't made with a recipe. You just take a little clay and soak it in water and mix it up until smooth. Some times you might have to run it through a fine mesh to eliminate lumps.
I have no experience with underglaze, but I would think that it is a bit like my mineral paint, a bit gritty and not as smooth as a clay slip. If that is so they it may not take a shine very well. When burnishing painted areas on my pottery, I usually burnish first, then paint on top of that, the background is then glossy but the paint is flat. I think it looks okay and the same thing can be seen in the ancient pots.
Hi Andy, thank you for sharing your knowledge! Please tell me how do you make yellow slip, that becomes red in the firing? Thank you! Shelly, from Israel.
Im just starting out and i have both the hobby lobby x-15 pottery clay, and the Marblex x-25a air dry clay and im having a few issues, one, i dont have a kiln so im only using the x25a, that said it's not food safe so i can't find a practical use. Also, it seem to be extremely difficult to shape on the wheel, its kinda hard and i can't find much info on it, i added water but it gets extremely sticky and messy and hard to shape still... I did make a bowl on accident while trying to make a jar for my tools..i will try to slip paint it with some of my local red clay. I think i could make black with charcoal... Any advice on these clays im ising would be terrific, i may leave this comment in a few videos, thanks for time.
To be honest I haven’t used those clays much since I usually dig my own clay. So the best advice I could offer would be to try finding and using wild clay.
So is this correct: The pot is greenware before you painted the slip designs, it dries thoroughly, and then you fire it in a pit fire (for the first and only firing)?
I live near the ocean, very near as in steps. Can I use that sand to enrich my clay and what would the clay to sand ratio be? Also what do you use for fuel in you driveway kiln which I love and can do definitely do? Last question, do you have a video that shows how to make a vase or smaller topped bowl by hand without using a wheel? I'm fascinated and excited from watching you. Please help me and thank you so much
Beach sand is often full of seashells, she shells are made of calcium which can cause pops in your pottery if you fire over 840 C. So if you choose to use it, keep your temperature low. In my driveway kiln I just use regular lump charcoal that I buy at the Home Depot. This might be a good video for you ua-cam.com/video/kfaOgcyTHlc/v-deo.html My upcoming video on Wednesday will show how to make a mug also.
I would love the answer to this as well. I’ve been looking for information on glaze and can’t find any good examples. The only thing I’ve found is a mixture of clay and ash, but I’m not sure if that will give me what I want.
The problem is that most modern glaze requires insane temperatures to melt, temperatures that cannot be reached without a modern kiln. Old fashioned glaze was lead based which has obvious health concerns ua-cam.com/video/zOrKF3oqIQU/v-deo.html
"Scriptito", script, looks a lot like scrimpshaw that is done with bone. It's the name as well as the design that made me think of that. So one is clay and one is on bone, interesting.
Scrimshaw is more about texturing the surface before adding pigment inside the texture so it is more like the reverse of sgraffito and is kinda more analogous to a hard surface tattoo.
Possibly but you would need some sort of fixative to hold it to the pot and harden in the fire. I think if I wanted a white color I would just use white clay, if you mixed talc with brown clay I'm not sure it would have much impact on the finished product.
Another sgraffito-like technique is scratchboard-- laying down black paint on a white surface, then making a picture by scratching some of the black away.
@@AncientPottery They're the same concept, but (for historical reasons?) scratchboard is about paper/cardboard, and sgraffito seems to be about every other medium. As I should have figured, you don't have to apply the black layer yourself to paper, you can buy it already done.
You need to add clay to that iron oxide as a fixative, otherwise it will not stick to the pot after the firing. Don't add grog to your paint, it isn't required.
Thanks! You can use sandpaper to smooth a pot and this is commonly done in Southwestern pottery. But, if you are trying to make pottery using only primitive tools or trying to make authentic replicas then it is a cheat because sandpaper is a modern tool.
I think your videos are the most interesting i have seen about ceramics. I'm more into without glaze solutions because i am fearful about glazing yet. But at the same time i really like the clay as a material itself. And i am so fond of ancient pottery. I'm so happy that i met your channel. Thanks!
Thanks, glad you found me
You'res are the first ever pottery videos that I've actually sat and watched. The native American part, the history and the practicality caught my attention. I have never been interested in pottery before and I'm in my 50's. It was the water cooling jug that first caught my attention, very important in this day and age to find non electric ways to stay cool.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I agree. Andy's a very good teacher.
Oh my good lord that pot at 13:56 being a dragon I am in complete freaking awe so so beautiful and I want to attempt this one!!!❤❤❤
Iv been artifact hunting all my life . Iv been wanting to dig my own clay and make pottery the native way. Your videos have me excited!!! Can't wait for it to get warm outside
Awesome, thanks for watching.
I prefer when it’s cold so I don’t have to worry about so many weeds and organics getting in my dirt, also I feel like it’s easier to get to clay deposits when there’s not a huge brush over it
The rough knobs on the first pot would let you move it around when hot with a set of wooden tongs with out getting burnt . The wood tongs would fit between them ever how you placed it and they would stop it from slipping out of your grip .
You have done a great job delivering this information, thanks .
Great observation, thanks!
The third pot, big almost looked like Grandma had her grandkid sitting with her and she let him decorate the pot. That would explain the crude/unevenness of it. I remember when my grandma taught me how to hoe the garden, mow the yard, get firewood and coal, weed the banks, etc, all before I was four. I can remember back to 3 years old working alongside her. Her Grandmother was Cherokee and I learned some plants/medicines from her too. I'll bet that is why this survived also, it was a keepsake/protected item.
I have 15 grandkids and this was my thought as well!
Thank you so much for this video! It has inspired me to try different decorative methods on my work. Only been potting for a year but I am getting a bit bored with straight turning on my pots and relying on wax and glaze for the decorative element. Thank you again!
Love the way you share your knowledge Andy. Would love to see them being made in person.
Come to a workshop some day. Thanks
Your work (both making pots, etc., and Videos), commitment, and enthusiasm are inspirational! Thank you for sharing what you do so well.
Thanks so much 😊
my first thought w/ the 'datura effigy pot' before you said anything about it was, 'oh, what a nice way to secure a textile around the outside so that you can handle the pot while its contents are extremely hot'. and then you explained it, and... I'm even more convinced that it's probably what I first thought.
I mean, for one, it only looks like a datura seed pod if you've never seen one irl, which means this hypothesis was probably made by someone working from their office in Chicago or something. for another, why don't they continue onto the bottom? if it's simply a bowl made to look like a datura seed pod, then it should have spikes all around, including on the bottom, and in that position they could be useful as legs to make its resting position more stable. but... if you're avoiding legs then it probably means you're doing something else with the bottom of the pot, like heating the contents through the bottom.
Good thoughts about this pot, thanks for sharing. You are right, too many of these ideas are made by people sitting at a desk with little or no experience of using pottery in real life.
You are my favorite!! lOVE you, Andy! So much education …. Just LOVE you!!
Thank you so much.
Torri Hoopes corrugated pot is magnificent, I really, really like it! I couldn't catch this live feed, but I really enjoyed this video! Thanks again Andy!
She's pretty talented. Thanks for watching.
That was brilliant Andy, thanks a lot. Packed full of information and I really enjoy your easy and gentle manner. Well done ……
I appreciate your comment very much Roy, thanks for watching.
I was told cooking pots were best made of clay that has mica for keeping heat.
@@precidesmartinez1368 yeah I’m a bit skeptical about that.
This video was an awesome find. My logic is simply, how much would I had to pay to either go to school to learn this or by going to a talk to hear it? Probably a few hundred bucks, plus the time... So thanks for your work.
Glad to hear you feel like you got something out of it. A lot of livestreams don't get many re-watches, so glad to hear this.
Thanks!
Thanks!
This is a great lesson. I became interested in ceramics because of archaeology. A guy from Mata Ortiz named Jeraldo used to come up to Sonoma County to teach. Their pots are amazing.
In another life I was Native American. I have always had a connection with natives. Love their culture. Excited to make something good from Mother Earth. Thank you again for educating me
Another interesting method that was common in the Southeast regions was stamped pottery where they would use a paddle and carve a design into it and press it all over the pottery.
Oh yeah, I have seen some of that, thanks!
Enjoying this. Obviously from a while back. I look forward to seeing you live soon. I got into clay by just getting it for my son and niece and nephew on our fun weekend nights and have recently been interested in getting into on an adult level. I'll keep watching and thank you so much
Thanks, I'll have another livestream soon.
THANKS ANDY AS ALWAYS GOOD INFORMATION AND WONDERFUL HISTORICAL POTTERS TOUR FOR YOUR AREA AND THE WORLD.YOU DO GREAT WORK THANKS.
Thanks for watching Rob, glad you enjoyed it.
Very interesting kind of pots.so beautiful I felt like I was in a museum thank you Andy.
Glad you enjoyed it
I finally had the time to watch this video. THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching
In reference to the question about Swedish pottery, I have information about Lithuanian primitive pottery that is still being made and sold. Reputed to be hard as iron. I’ll email you the article.
Maravillosas piezas. Lástima que no entiendo lo que dice. Por lo que creo entender esas piezas que usted hace, son réplicas o inspiradas en otras antiguas. Se vale de un cuenco como soporte para trabajar, en vez de una torreta. Es una maravilla. Un trabajo excelente. Enhorabuena.
Gracias. Creo que puedes hacer que los subtítulos se muestren en español.
Always enjoy your videos ! Thanks for sharing great useful info Andy
So glad to hear it, thanks Jeff!
The carved puppy dog face and ears is very clever and lively. It has personality.
Watching from South Africa. Can’t wait to try.
Thanks
Thank you for sharing these tips! Nice to finally understand all the different ways of decorating pottery.
Have you ever worked with air dry clay/self hardening clay? If so, can you give us any tips?
You are welcome. Sorry but I have zero experience with air dry clay.
Really enjoying this tutorial. Just reminds us we have so many options. Great feed here in Montana
Thanks Colleen! Yes people often get into the habit of doing things the same way, it's fun to break out of those boxes sometimes and do something different. Which clay almost anything is possible.
Do not know if you answer past vids...but have you heard of stuccoing cook pots...
Mixing grog/ temper into a thick slip, then applying it to the green ware pot. Made a paddle and anvil pot in the late 1980 that i was inspired by a Yuman pot saw, that I used many times for camp fire beans and stews...thank you for your sharings.
Yes, I try to answer all comments with a few exceptions. I have never heard of or seen any of this stucco ware. I would think that the advantages as cooking pots would be similar to that for corrugated pottery.
Thank you...and yes it works the same, with less work i would think.
The copper bottomed pots were what my mother had and was called Revere Ware.
Yes, thanks!
My parents have a set. They are great. The only problem they have is that they aren't compatible with induction.
Yup ~ it’s spinning here on live You Tube too~ but watchable!!
Sorry, I did better on my most recent livestream.
@@AncientPottery yup ~ I think some times it may have to do with whatever is happening up there with the satellite and not with us humans here on the ground!!
Wow I know the Datura plant well and would love to make pots like the first one !
You should!
Check out Joel Queen, Cherokee, pottery,, corrugated pots
Yes, that guy knows his stuff. Not many native potters on the east coast.
I have one, my grandma’s frying pan, copper on bottom stainless otherwise
Very interesting, keep up the good teaching
Thank you for watching and participating.
Thank you so much Andy
You are very welcome
My primitive self would have liked to have kept the camber pots separate from my cooking pots if for no other reason than to keep strange flavors from permeating my porridge. Corrugating would make it obvious. Another thought about corrugation - perhaps it provides a good grip when chances of being wet, which is what happens when you use a clay pot over an open fire. Hot liquids with a fat skim would provoke me to produce cooking pots with good grip even if I do have a great hide hot mitten.
Good points, sometimes people who haven't lived like that or cooked over an open fire can't visualize these kinds of problems. Thanks!
Revere also made or makes tinned solid copper pans, several of which I inherited from my Aunt. The tinning is done to prevent coppe-contaminated-food, but the Revere stainless steel and copper-bottomed pots and pans were state-of-the-art for more than three decades, until PBS introduced restaurant-quality AllClad, one of the earliest to trend by upping conductivity by sandwiching more layers - you guessed it - toward the bottom, similar to the copper-bottom. That happened in the '80s. Will thhat grow up the sides of pots (priced much higher) to edge-up to the high-end-trend? My eyes are open.
Pressing flowers or leaves into pottery could also be used to decorate pottery. Or imprinting textured from wood or rope.
Yes, great idea
Hi from Dover UK! what is the organic paint made from- something that has boiled down, but the recording skipped so i dont know what. Beautiful pieces thank you for sharing so much fascinating and beautiful work, Caroline
Thank you. The organic paint can be made from a variety of boiled down plant material. Traditional among the Pueblos is Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, I like to use mesquite beans or yucca fruit. This video has more info about organic pottery paints ua-cam.com/video/6UjO_W85So0/v-deo.html
Hi Andy. Love your videos. Inspiring & informative. My question is:
You mentioned not to glaze over a burnished pot. Is that a general statement or would a ^10 burnished claybody not accept a ^10 glaze? Or does burnishing the clay alter the glaze fit during the firing?
I have no idea about technical aspects of glazing over burnishing because I have never glazed my pottery. When I said not to glaze over burnishing I merely meant that all the work of burnishing would be for nothing if you covered it up with glaze.
Nice job Andy learned so much as always.
Thanks, glad to help
I wonder if corrugation allows for better cooling on the outside after cooking. Easier to handle? Maybe its a quicker build they figure may as well use to cook where its going to get burned and dirty anyway.
An archaeologist did some experiments to determine the practical benefits of corrugated pottery. He determined that it makes cooking pots last longer without cracking and breaking from all the heating and cooling that a cooking pot goes through.
@@AncientPottery I won't say it isn't necessarily true until I have actually tested it, but as someone who studied some material science in college that seems counter intuitive, usually it is preferable to minimize the number of potential stress risers to reduce the risk of crack propagation rather than doing the inverse.
Would love to see you do some polychrome design painting, maybe examine some typical patterns, how to get brighter colors etc? Love ALL your videos Andy!
Thanks. I have been thinking about a video about designs and how to lay them out, just not sure how best to approach it.
@@AncientPottery approach it with your usual snazz and amazing talent of course!
I use a mix of cement and All Purpose sand to make different pots. I add a little white glue to help with something. Latex paint can be added for color. I sometimes add slip to make it smoother. This has to be cured wet sealed in a plastic bag for about two weeks. Grout power can be used to drizzle color on it with latex paint. Will need to be cured again. Water proof and very hard.
With all due respect to your art, this is not pottery which is defined as "pots, dishes, and other articles made of earthenware or baked clay."
Could you talk about the pottery of Maria in new mexico and her black pottery, I believe that she used animal dung to fire her pots to turn them black.
I love Maria's pottery. I talk about her a little in several videos, here is one ua-cam.com/video/Lc7Fb2epkh8/v-deo.html But because I am focused on recreating ancient pottery and hers was more contemporary Pueblo potter, our paths are a little different.
Hi Andy, Hope all is well, Thanks for sharing. I would like to know about the natural clay/clays and mineral paints in Ohio. Thanks
I don't know much about Ohio clays but I know they do have some.
Giveaway
Only 300- til 15k :)
This video opened my eyes to a few decorating techniques I hadn't seen before. Our ancient pottery here in the Eastern Woodland Region (North Eastern US and South Eastern Ontario Canada) most of our pottery was never painted. Most are incised or carved with reed or other sharp sticks. Or paddled onto a smooth pots via carved wooden paddles with different designs upon them. I really love the look of the pottery that's fully burnished and then parts of the greenware carved away. Very stunning
Thanks, we are getting there. Glad this was a helpful video.
Do you have a video showing recipes for different slips ??
No I don't. Slip is just liquid clay, so unlike glazes, they really aren't made with a recipe. You just take a little clay and soak it in water and mix it up until smooth. Some times you might have to run it through a fine mesh to eliminate lumps.
Hi there, beautiful pottery
Was wondering if one can burnish over underglaze. ?
Thank you for all your knowledge on prehistoric ceramics..
I have no experience with underglaze, but I would think that it is a bit like my mineral paint, a bit gritty and not as smooth as a clay slip. If that is so they it may not take a shine very well. When burnishing painted areas on my pottery, I usually burnish first, then paint on top of that, the background is then glossy but the paint is flat. I think it looks okay and the same thing can be seen in the ancient pots.
Thank you that is helpful.. would like to email you my results if possible..
you mentioned owning a ruin ? How did this fold out, that is a really unique aspect to have access too
Yes, I bought a ruin I knew about when the land became available. It is a nice place to have access to.
Hi Andy, thank you for sharing your knowledge! Please tell me how do you make yellow slip, that becomes red in the firing? Thank you! Shelly, from Israel.
It is made from a yellow clay I collect near the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. It has a lot of iron in it.
Im just starting out and i have both the hobby lobby x-15 pottery clay, and the Marblex x-25a air dry clay and im having a few issues, one, i dont have a kiln so im only using the x25a, that said it's not food safe so i can't find a practical use. Also, it seem to be extremely difficult to shape on the wheel, its kinda hard and i can't find much info on it, i added water but it gets extremely sticky and messy and hard to shape still... I did make a bowl on accident while trying to make a jar for my tools..i will try to slip paint it with some of my local red clay. I think i could make black with charcoal... Any advice on these clays im ising would be terrific, i may leave this comment in a few videos, thanks for time.
To be honest I haven’t used those clays much since I usually dig my own clay. So the best advice I could offer would be to try finding and using wild clay.
Do you ever use two (or more) different types of clay to get the different colors in the end? Is there a reason to not use two different clays?
So is this correct: The pot is greenware before you painted the slip designs, it dries thoroughly, and then you fire it in a pit fire (for the first and only firing)?
Yes, that is accurate.
I live near the ocean, very near as in steps. Can I use that sand to enrich my clay and what would the clay to sand ratio be? Also what do you use for fuel in you driveway kiln which I love and can do definitely do? Last question, do you have a video that shows how to make a vase or smaller topped bowl by hand without using a wheel? I'm fascinated and excited from watching you. Please help me and thank you so much
Beach sand is often full of seashells, she shells are made of calcium which can cause pops in your pottery if you fire over 840 C. So if you choose to use it, keep your temperature low.
In my driveway kiln I just use regular lump charcoal that I buy at the Home Depot.
This might be a good video for you ua-cam.com/video/kfaOgcyTHlc/v-deo.html
My upcoming video on Wednesday will show how to make a mug also.
Is it possible to make primitive/old tradional glaze at home?
I would love the answer to this as well. I’ve been looking for information on glaze and can’t find any good examples. The only thing I’ve found is a mixture of clay and ash, but I’m not sure if that will give me what I want.
The problem is that most modern glaze requires insane temperatures to melt, temperatures that cannot be reached without a modern kiln. Old fashioned glaze was lead based which has obvious health concerns ua-cam.com/video/zOrKF3oqIQU/v-deo.html
"Scriptito", script, looks a lot like scrimpshaw that is done with bone. It's the name as well as the design that made me think of that. So one is clay and one is on bone, interesting.
True, similar concepts
Scrimshaw is more about texturing the surface before adding pigment inside the texture so it is more like the reverse of sgraffito and is kinda more analogous to a hard surface tattoo.
As a natural mineral, is talcum powder something that could be used to colour clay or as a pigment paint?
Possibly but you would need some sort of fixative to hold it to the pot and harden in the fire. I think if I wanted a white color I would just use white clay, if you mixed talc with brown clay I'm not sure it would have much impact on the finished product.
Another sgraffito-like technique is scratchboard-- laying down black paint on a white surface, then making a picture by scratching some of the black away.
Thanks Nancy, I was thinking that was the same as sgraffito, thanks for the clarification.
@@AncientPottery They're the same concept, but (for historical reasons?) scratchboard is about paper/cardboard, and sgraffito seems to be about every other medium.
As I should have figured, you don't have to apply the black layer yourself to paper, you can buy it already done.
Do you paint after burning?
Great video! For the organic paint...my rocky mountain bee plant has dried up. Will it still boil down to make decent paint?
Yes, dried Bee Plant will work fine.
I used iron oxide powder and red clay grog from a tile as a paint, got nothing in result, any recommendations Andy?
You need to add clay to that iron oxide as a fixative, otherwise it will not stick to the pot after the firing. Don't add grog to your paint, it isn't required.
volume was lower than your other videos but i can hear you!
Sorry about that
Very nice wow
How do you mix the colors in the clay, or is it naturally colored yellow or white?
Those clays are naturally those colors.
Does burnishing make the pot any more water proof?
A little bit
Clear Glaze
with what do you burnish the pots?
I use smooth stones but you can use the back of a spoon
Thank you so much
Hello from Ohio!
Hello Ohio!
Do you make your own charcoal?
No, I buy it
what did you mean by "cheating with sandpaper"? how can you use sandpaper to polish pottery? Big fan of the channel btw.
Thanks! You can use sandpaper to smooth a pot and this is commonly done in Southwestern pottery. But, if you are trying to make pottery using only primitive tools or trying to make authentic replicas then it is a cheat because sandpaper is a modern tool.
@@AncientPottery Thank you for replying. Do they sand it when its leather dry or fired?
@@stanislavcincibuch5108 bone dry
@@AncientPottery Thank you! And merry Christmas!
How do you get "fire clouds"?
Carbon in the pot, usually caused by a piece of firewood resting on the pot during the firing
What does"slipped" mean?
To cover the pot with a thin layer of liquid clay (slip)
Do you know what symbols mean?
I do know what a few symbols mean but I don't get into that too much, that's up to Native Americans to interpret.
I wonder if the “sloppy” piece was made by a child and treasured by her or his parents.
Very likely someone who was just learning the art of pottery
so beautiful and lovely video. Please tell me in Hindi sir
I don’t speak Hindi
Audio is way too low.
Sorry