How to Make a Large Pottery Jar (Olla) With Coils From Beginning to End
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Wrapping up the 10 ancient forms in the Ancient Pottery Challenge, the olla is the last form for me to attempt. In this video I am using the ancient "coil and scrape" method to produce a large Tularosa Black on White jar, called an olla in the American Southwest. Follow along through every step as I produce this large jar, from coil building, to scraping and smoothing, slipping and burnishing, then painting and finally the outdoor pottery firing. This video took over two weeks to produce, show me some love, and hit the like button if you like this format.
The original Ancient Pottery Challenge video can be found here • 10 Coil Pot Ideas From...
0:00 Forming the pot (coiling)
12:26 Scraping & smoothing
13:39 Slipping & polishing
16:26 Painting
23:07 Firing
26:49 Wrap-up & lessons learned
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Make sure you watch all the way to the end to see how this pot comes out 😉 There is an important lesson there for all potters.
Make sure to watch before reading the comments..
I love the layout process. Now that was really a good intro to how one can approach this! Thanks for sharing this.
I'm doing a challenge where I'm making 100 handbuilt bowls. What I am discovering is that you will screw up on some of the bowls you really love...but also discover a lot of beauty in the bowls that you originally thought were crap. And sometimes you make stuff and completely finish it, and it's wildly different to what you thought it was going to be. That's just the way it is. I have some ceramic bowls I threw on the wheel in my cupboard, and I love them, but they are way too heavy! So if any of them break, while I'd be sad for a little while, it means the opportunity to make new bowls that are better. And that's the important thing at the end of the day, is getting better at the art.
Whelp. At least you got some really pretty shards to shield the next project…?
Do you have a beginner’s guide, perhaps with terminology guide?
An exemplar UA-cam video demonstrating why the platform was created. Only a few videos into this channel and it's already one of my favourites.
Glad to hear it, thanks.
As an artist and potter myself, I can only admire your work. I think there will always be a market for wonderful hand-made items, even when AI takes over all art! Great tutorial, thanks.
Isn't it amazing what the ancient peoples could do! Thanks for trying to retain those skills.
Hi, I'm Ulises, I live in Mexico and thanks to your videos I've achieved my goals.
That's great
Oh my heart just dropped watching the end!
Yes, a bit heartbreaking isn’t it?
Thanks for showing the Failures as well as the Successes.! That after all is the dynamics of pottery. Kinda like life.
True
My kids and I have been collecting and processing wild clay and having some fun trying to make pottery and sculptures. Today the kids got impatient and decided to try drying their creations in the blazing, 100 degree sunshine. Needless to say, they didn’t survive the drying process. My 5 year old was in tears, really upset after the loss of so much work. I showed him this video, and after seeing it, he was able to see this experience as practice instead of waste. He’s excited to grind it up and start again. Thanks for sharing the practice and learning experiences, as well as the successes! It’s a huge, huge help!
My daughter in law was recently saying that she was afraid to learn to cook because she might mess it up. I told her that it is like learning to make pottery, you will fail many times, but with each failure you will learn and move forward. Failure is part of the process. An important lesson for children and even young adults.
Today, in this world of ours, to many people try to hide their failures/mistakes. Although the firing ending was painful to watch, the honesty you had in showing us, is a good sign of your character. Thank You.
Thanks for that. I think we can all learn together, if I hide my failures only I learn and you don’t.
Believe me i almost cried my eyes was full of tears while you said only oops😅 i was more emotionally attached to ur beautiful peice of art which fall apart 😢
It was painful to watch such a beautiful pot fall apart. I think I was more emotionally attached to it than you were! So what's the fate of the sherds? Grog for future pots, or archeological relics for future explorers?
I'm not sure, I might try gluing them together, then it will look like a real relic.
And your very dry "oops"....
Good comment on the whole issue. Your are very grounded in reality, it was a good lesson in perspective (for me).
@@johanneswerner1140 Good observation. I really appreciate that about his whole attitude.
I know these shards have long ago had their fate decided but this seems like a wonderful example to try Kintsugi, a Japanese method of repairing pots that might look wonderful with this aesthetic.
oh no! spoiler alert! lol 1/3 thru it :)
This is what happened to 70% of my pots. That why I created a pit-fire kiln. So far so good on those. Andy, it did look beautiful while it lasted.
Thank you. I will be firing some more of this same clay in a few days (if it doesn't rain the whole time). I hope to show how these kinds of problems can be mitigated.
I also recently did a sort pitfire-cum-open-firing and had very good results. Probably because the heat was more even because of the protection of a three-brick high wall around the fire. I usually fire three smallish pots at the most in an open fire, but this time I fired 11 pots and all 9 of the important ones made it. Only two experimental pots did'nt.
@@AncientPottery that is the kind of weather I always have to deal with. I live in a region that gets rain all through the year. My wood, pots and bricks are probably equally damp when I fire!
This is why the southwest is full of pottery shards that have helped us understand some of the ancient pottery motifs. You are not the first to have a pit fire failure. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome
The sound of the pot being made - the scraping of the clay up to the new edge - could be its own ASMR video. Just however long of all the full length jug creation process sounds! :)
Thank you for all your generosity and experience, I’m from Mexico and trying to built ancient look pottery and you’re inspiring .
Glad to hear it. I would love to see the pottery you are making in Mexico. We have a Facebook group you might enjoy if you are on Facebook. facebook.com/groups/SWpottery
WelP, I started to watch this after watching two others of yours today and heard thunder in the distance. So I rolled out my driveway to a spot that traps many of my friends when they come by without letting 4 or 5 days pass after a rain. I've watched a few of your clay gathering episodes. I had to repack all the deep ruts with my truck as the big ruts began too harden, so I knew THIS is my best spot. Grabbed a handful of palm-sized chunks and set them aside for later, when I will make my FIRST lump of clay. Your area is exactly the same as my desert here 65 miles south of Alpine, TX, about 3 miles east of HWY 118. There is a bentonite mine out here and I know I can get it as it is everywhere. Thanks for the videos!
I consider every mistake I make to be a practice session. I have never become less skilled by an accident.
So true and a good attitude to have.
Dude, you rule. I start coil ceramics next term and your videos are going to be the perfect primer.
She was a beautiful pot😔 I was really impressed with your freehand skills. As a chronic doodler, I know how hard it is to draw a balanced design that complicated on a flat piece of paper with erasable pencils, much less in the round, with paint. You did a lovely work🤗🐝❤️
Thank you. That is so true, many people don't realize just how difficult it is to paint on a rounded surface until they try it. I enjoy the painting part, although I don't feel it is what I am best at.
@@AncientPottery You’re most welcome! And I would say you’re wonderful at it🤗🐝❤️
I'm in awe of the painting job on this pot!
@@thehappypotter9612 Me too!🤗🐝❤️
Thank you for teaching clearly and enthusiastically about pottery and, just as importantly, showing that mishaps and disasters can, and do, happen even to masters of the craft. I really do appreciate that you saw there was still value in sharing the journey of this project. Also, thanks for putting links to other videos throughout :)
You are very welcome.
Such good construction tips. This olla will live on to instruct learners forever, despite its brief life.
That is true and now I have a really great jigsaw puzzle!
Really good point ! It might not hold water but many will enjoy learning !
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Muy muy bonito ,me encantan sus trabajos ,es vd muy meticuloso, sus diseños muy acertados. Desde Valencia España
Kudos for holding it together at the end there! Not sure if I would have just continued staring at it and had a sad laugh, or went all cowboy with some choice words followed by a requiescent hat toss into the wild blue yonder. As you were firing it with the timber piled on, I found myself dreaming about an even larger vented 'sacrificial' pot in case of differential heating and hardening. Guess we know now!
You live and you learn. Life goes on without the pot about as it would have with the pot. At least I captured that moment on video. Thanks
Hi Andy, my name is André and I'm from Brazil. And your videos are very good thanks for them. They've been teaching me more about ceramics. And sorry for any grammar mistakes. my english is not my strong point
Glad you are enjoying them.
Oh wow!! Well it was a beautiful. Glad you captured it all the way through. In my regular life I am a control freak, pottery has taught me to let go. Not everything can be controlled, even when doing something you have done a 100 times. In pottery it’s often up to the Pottery Gods. Lol But man there is beauty in learning from those moments and letting go. I love the way you handled that. Thank you for sharing. Good luck on your ladle.
Thank you for that. A lesson we all need to ponder. I am working on the ladle today, thanks.
😂 bummer dude, such a work of art!!!
I prefer a Dakota fire pit, that the side vent is closed as the fire takes off. Pot is fired with shards covering the pots.
Above ground, I have a wind shield around my fire pit.
Wind is bad, a drop of rain is lethal👀
Thank you for sharing!
Good teachings❤️
Thanks
Andy, thanks for posting this video. I am truly impressed with the skill that you put into making this pot and the unique methods you used. I absolutely loved making pottery in high school but without any equipment since then, I haven’t enjoyed the art. I only have some bowls and small figurines to remember. Now I’m thinking that I might give it another chance.
Also, your encouragement to not get discouraged if the piece fails even after a lot of work, energy, and even emotion have been poured into the piece….let’s just say that it hit home and have me hope to give it a try.
Andy you’re the coolest! Thanks for this :)
Thanks, hope you enjoy it.
Just learnt of your channel by complete chance today and now I'm completely addicted! Love watching your process and your calm delivery. Also beautiful artistry. Thanks from the UK!
Welcome and thank you
RIP Tularosa Olla, you will always be remembered
Indeed
Twice you demonstrated exemplary control of your emotions. Glad you kept this in this episode. As a teenager I would not have kept my composure, but I learned over the years, throwing a temper tantrum does not fix what got broken or clean up what was spilled. Hope you now have some cover sherds you needed from a previous video. Thanks for sharing.
Those are some beautiful chert tools! This was a very much appreciated video Andy.
Very welcome
Heart breaking! That was hard to watch. Important to see even the best have failures. Very important lesson. None the less, a great video & great teaching from start to finish.
Thanks again,
Pete
Thanks. It is so refreshing to see an obviously competent artist show his occasional human failure
Humility, such an under-rated quality.
@@AncientPottery I admire and respect your skill and your positive attitude.
If I had ever (I doubt it) invested so much time, patience and effort in building such a difficult piece with such beautiful design, and it all went to pieces as yours, I think I would have been on the verge of suicide. I congratulate you for your work, your aptitudes to learnt and your capacity for standing frustration without collapsing.
Every failure is a learning opportunity. Thanks!
What that pot did in the end was a crying offense. 😿
I'm so excited to try this, I have harvested about 10 gallons of clay, 5 red and 5 white! Thank you so much!!!
Thanks Andy! And thank you for reminding us how to keep our cool. Fantastic build, I keep learning from each and every one...I'm also trying my best to remember to turn the camera on so we'll see what turns out.
You are welcome. There is making pottery and then there is making pottery while filming, two separate things and the latter is infinitely more difficult. I hope to see the results of your efforts soon.
Ohh, big gasp. I would have been crying for awhile. Such a beautiful piece. I'll be waiting for you next big piece. I'm so happy I found your channel. I've only fired a pit few small pieces with mixed results. But I've kept them to encourage me to do better.
Thanks for the encouragement. You can do it and lower your failure rate, remember to pre-heat and temper your clay well.
I've watched several of your videos and this is the best so far. Excellent instructions and the steady hand you have while painting is admirable. Sorry that this pot didn't survive the fire but the philosophical way you rolled with it is good guidance. Well done.
I could watch this all day. So satisfying. But, I could also do this all day too because I have clay
Hi Andy, I know this video is a couple of years old, I am resurching because my son found some clay, and brought it home.I want to use it, I will process it and make something small and try to fire! Binge watching trying to learn as much as possible, I am in South West Oregon. And am local native.Thank you for all the info.
You are welcome, I hope your pot comes out good.
Thank you for showing the Whole process.
No problem 😊
OMGGGG this is very very beautiful!!! ♥ God bless your hands forever!!!
You are Amazing. I've just started getting into pottery and have made a number of pots (small ones) but too scared to fire any out of fear they are going to explode or crack. Here where I live in Northeast Kansas most of the clay is either redish orange or dark dark gray almost black. I see very little buck skin tan clay that would take a whole day picking up what little pieces are sprinkled around in the creek beds.
I would like to thank you for all the time and research and travel and making pottery that you share with all of us so we can enjoy the art and carry on with your knowledge and pass it on. Thank You Andy!!!
I am glad you appreciate my videos. I love making them.
Really enjoyed this video, such a labour intensive project and a beautiful pot, I would have glued all the pieces back together again and still put it on display! Thanks for sharing
Howdy Andy, great to see Yu take on a great challenge! yrs ago I struggled to make a similar huge jar, so yur video, from start to finish, taught me plenty, especially aboutThermal Shock ! Yur friend, Cliff K
Thanks Cliff
Experience is the best teacher. Too little temper and exposed to a windy current while being fired.
Keep learning, keep making forward progress.
That hurt even tho I knew it was coming (peeked at the comments). It was such a beautiful pot right up until the end, and I’m very appreciative that you let us see it. Gives me hope that if I ever get past the point of watching your video’s while drooling, and actually make one…and it breaks, I’ll know that I’m right up there with the big dogs, instead of feeling so discouraged that I give up. Thanks. ❤️
Yes, keep trying and you will achieve success. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for posting this video even though the firing didn't turn out, still an enjoyable video to view. I think a lot of DIY videographers don't post the failures, I wish they would. It keeps it real :)
For sure, I feel that my mistakes may teach far more than my successes do. Thanks.
❤❤❤ Andy so glad I found your site…we do PIT (Passport in Time) volunteering and sherd study has taken an even deeper meaning now!
So pleased to discover your channel Andy, and I’m fascinated to know the origins of the miniature pots on the small shelves behind you at or around the 18- 18 time stamp, as I’m sure many other viewers feel the same. Great work, and very inspiring!
Oh, those are from all over, I will try to do a post about that soon.Thanks
That was fantastic Bury the pieces together and then in 1000 years time an archaeologist will dig up the pieces become all excited and stick them together to create your finished pot for you and put them in a museum.And you’re right your video is a creation itself and a great opportunity for us to learn thank you
Thanks, yes some future archaeologist will be stumped by that.
Wow!!! New to your channel, I couldn’t be so cavalier about something so special ruined. I must say it’s a great video. Thank you😔
Great video as usual! So sorry all that work shattered into pieces on u. That instant replay in slow motion was heartbreakingly awesome though! RIP big beautiful pot!
Thanks, it was as much a surprise to me as it was to everyone else. I had no idea it was going to crumble in my hands. Just glad I caught it on camera.
Life is a learning experience but some of the lessons can really smart. It was a masterwork, regardless of its ultimate fate.
Yes, just enjoying the journey with all its dips and bumps.
Beautiful walk !
Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
I loved this video specially after the pot was fired ...
that was surprising to me at the end. I don't know much about pottery, but thanks for the video; It's genuine and teaches all of us a lesson
Thanks, as a person who doesn't know much about pottery I'm glad this video was able to keep you entertained.
This was very good to watch. It's good to see what can happen. It is a learning curve. I'm wondering when doing a firing, in an outdoor kiln (I'm wanting to build), are you supposed to build the heat slowly so it doesn't shock the clay to avoid breakage? Or is it better to get the heat to increase quickly?
I always try to heat slowly in my kiln, It can be a challenge because those things naturally want to heat up fast.
Thank you ! You are great!
Thank you for your videos. They are amazing. 😍
Thanks, glad you are enjoying my content.
The pot was a work of art. Love the videos very inspiring for me :)
Thanks so much 😊
You were showing pictures around mid way a or two thirds through and I saw cracks I was thinking, awww this is so beautiful it looks like firing didn't go well. Then I wondered if it was a previous attempt. Beautiful work regardless. Well done.
That is so impressive
A pleasant watch and sounds. Thank you.
You're welcome
Oh my gosh I’d cry. You worked so hard it was gorgeous
It's all part of being a potter, sometimes it happens.
Champion 💪
Well done ! Thank you for teaching.
You are welcome!
Wonderful! You are a true master!
Thank you.
Inspirational. I was gonna save up for a kiln and wheel but wow, that's amazing!!!!❤❤❤
I collected the clay a while ago but lacked the effort to try making something with it coming u with excuses but seeing the 😐pot at 5:25 is all I needed lol, Ama get good enough to make it for myself 😂😂😂😂. Also I love the parts with no music where you can hear the scrapper working, it really connected.
You’re so inspiring thank you
You're welcome
Cool video lot's of good things learned!!
Glad you enjoyed it
I'm so impressed with your skills and willingness to share them with us. Thank you!
Thank you, it is my pleasure to share.
That is just gorgeous
Thank you
Amazing job!
Thank you!
Beautiful, you make it look easy.
Thank you
BEAUTIFUL ART!
Thank you very much!
A wonderful process. Thanks for such a detailed video, very inspiring.!!
Thank you, glad you liked it.
You should use the gold lacquer technique to repair the pot it would look stunning
that clay seems amazing to work with. There is no way I could build a pot that size with the commercial clay that I can get hold of around here. The supplier's red earthenware clay is so floppy that I cannot even make a small pinchpot with it. My beautiful red clay from the brick yard, however, has such wet strength that I could build a tower with it in one go
Clay selection is very important when building large forms. This is an excellent clay that I collect near the Mogollon Rim in east central Arizona.
What a pity it cracked, she was very, very beautiful!
Your job is great, thank you for letting me see :)
Thank you very much!
I love this video! You're so good at rolling out those coils!
LOL well I do have a few years experience with those coils.
Never give up with pottery! Greetings from Italy!
Thanks
You were really brave!
Beautiful techniques as well!
Thank you so much!
brilliant video I learned something and not about pots. The lessons don't just apply to making pottery, you can put everything you have into something and it still goes to pieces. Thanks
Friend, I would have put in a deep hole so only the top 1/4 was above, cover it deeper and around it with firing materials. Maybe more of a pit fire. Let it COOOOL SLOOOLULY. Just a suggestion. I love your work. I can never paint unless I have barb wire barricades set up to control the paint. Keep up the good work
JimmyJo😀
😭😭😭 thanks for showing when things go wrong. Love your work
Thank you. Failure is part of the process.
You are so inspiring 🙏 Thank you...
Thank you, glad to be of service.
Please excuse my ignorance, I’m no pottery person but I genuinely found this fascinating. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you create a beautiful pot. My heart sank and I literally gasped when it broke. I found your tips very informative and I loved the asmr, your camerawork, lighting and editing is to be admired. You’re a very likeable gentleman and I’m very happy UA-cam recommended you. With love and appreciation to you from England. xxx
Thank you so much. I am glad you found it enjoyable to watch, I hope you check out some of my other videos.
I most definitely will! Thank You x
Thank you Sir.
You are most welcome
Thank sir for sharing ❤
My pleasure
I like your attitude
Hi Andy, nice touch with the knapped chert knife. I would struggle with the coil pots, but the flint knapping I can handle. Thanks for the videos!
Pottery is like anything Mike, it takes lots of practice. I'll bet when you first tried knapping the results were not great. I have a knapper friend who gives me points to use, I am as bad a knapper as you are a potter.
Thank you for the great video. The shards could be used to make beautiful jewelry.
I am impressed
Thank you
wow, well done ,
Thank you!
Sooo beautiful Andy! Your patient skill is breathtaking and contagious, the design is amazing and I love the free hand painting approach,
Too bad lit broke but, as you say many times, we learn from each mishap, nature holds secrets we are still to discover✨🙏🏻💐thank you so much for sharing ALL your experiences😌
Yes, hopefully a learning experience for many. I did enjoy making it either way.
very cool and insight ful thanks for sharing. ! 😃🤗😗🙃🤩
You're welcome
such a beautiful pot..so sorry . You are a very good instructor in the way you explained the building of the pot and then analyzing what possible cause it to crack after firing . Lessons for beginner to remember and learn from. thank you.
Thanks, I am glad you got something from this. If people are able to learn from this video then the work I did making this pot will not be in vain.
Excelente trabajo.
Muchas gracias.