Watched 'Make ORGANIC POTTERY PAINT with Rocky Mountain Bee Plant' the other day and left a question about storing and deleting the organic paint. This episode answered those questions perfectly. Thank you very much for posting these videos, they are very informative and instructional. Thanks for sharing.
Mr. Ward out of all the pottery I've seen, the ancient pots like the one you just made is the coolest by far. the style is awesome, the Native Americans who who invented it were incredibly creative, artistic, and really made something awesome 💯. and you're pots are spot on but with your own artistic ideas. very cool man .💯👍
As a newbie to primitive pottery making, I over polished a slip glazed pot thinking that the smoother the surface the easier it would be to paint. Fortunately, I saw this video before painting the black design onto the pot. So I rewet the white slip glaze in an attempt to “raise” the mud (akin to wetting wood to raise the grain🤷🏻♀️). The surface appears better for it but I dunno if it is a good slip glaze hack. If you haven’t already made an experiment video using this attempt to correct over polishing, it might be cool to see if it works… or not.😅 Fingers crossed to see if the paint sticks.🤞
Awesome video. I've recently had a chance to look at a lot of pottery shards up here in Black Mesa and you're not kidding the slip looks like it's extremely thin. But some of the pieces are so smooth they almost feel like glass. That maybe from 500 years of sand blowing across it but pretty amazing. Thanks again for the video
About retting the yucca leaves...a similar process is/has/can be used to process flax for spinning. Do you know whether yucca can be/has been/is used to make thread to weave things?
Andy... I am learning lots from your wonderful videos. And it's very very interesting. Thank you Where I live, I am not easily finding smectite, even online. Would food grade kaolin clay alternately do? Thanks in anticipation
Wonderful video. I would love to buy some of your white and red slips whenever you decide to sell them. In the meantime I will experiement with some surface firing with clays and slips I have. Also, any suggestions for roots/seeds/berries to use as organic paint on the East Coast.
I have had decent success with roadside sunflowers, the whole plant, leaves, stems, flowers, buds, everything, put in a pot and boiled down. I assume you have those on the east coast.
If you are hoping to use organic paint then you must apply that to smectite clay, so bentonite or montmorillonite or something like that. Mineral based paint can use other things like clay or organic binders.
What could you use to paint and decorate pots with that is commercially available? I have a good source of clay to build with, but was wanting to just buy paints. Mineral paint?
My question is, when i make a powder from oxid iron, for example, then joint water to make a paste...do i joint any sodio carbonate???....the intention is drawing in a white pot...thank s
Slip is like paint but it is really just a thin clay solution to add color. Check out my online classes, they are informative, guaranteed and inexpensive. ancientpottery.how/online-pottery-classes/
@ ~ 7 mins, you are painting horizontal lines from a vertical approach, which seems awkward to me, would it have been easier to have laid the piece on its side and painted it from that vertical approach? I'm assuming that you are working in this way to allow the camera to have the best angle, which speaks to your talent as an artist as well as an educator. @ 10:30 mins, you are talking about the white slip. Would applying it while the pot is either leather hard or mist dampened bone dry, allow a small amount to bind with the clay? Then after its dry, before any polishing, you use burlap to remove the "excess" to keep it as thin as you make it seem it needs to be.
Mostly that awkward angle is because this organic paint is super sticky and you want to handle the pot as little as possible so you don't accidentally put your hand in it and make a mess. I apply the slip while the pot is leather hard, sometimes I polish it lightly and sometimes I don't, I think the ancient potters did it both ways. My ways of working with this type of pottery are to make it as much like the ancient pottery as possible. Thanks
Watched 'Make ORGANIC POTTERY PAINT with Rocky Mountain Bee Plant' the other day and left a question about storing and deleting the organic paint. This episode answered those questions perfectly. Thank you very much for posting these videos, they are very informative and instructional. Thanks for sharing.
Mr. Ward out of all the pottery I've seen, the ancient pots like the one you just made is the coolest by far. the style is awesome, the Native Americans who who invented it were incredibly creative, artistic, and really made something awesome 💯. and you're pots are spot on but with your own artistic ideas. very cool man .💯👍
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As a newbie to primitive pottery making, I over polished a slip glazed pot thinking that the smoother the surface the easier it would be to paint. Fortunately, I saw this video before painting the black design onto the pot. So I rewet the white slip glaze in an attempt to “raise” the mud (akin to wetting wood to raise the grain🤷🏻♀️). The surface appears better for it but I dunno if it is a good slip glaze hack. If you haven’t already made an experiment video using this attempt to correct over polishing, it might be cool to see if it works… or not.😅
Fingers crossed to see if the paint sticks.🤞
Awesome video. I've recently had a chance to look at a lot of pottery shards up here in Black Mesa and you're not kidding the slip looks like it's extremely thin. But some of the pieces are so smooth they almost feel like glass. That maybe from 500 years of sand blowing across it but pretty amazing. Thanks again for the video
That gloss was created by hand polishing with a stone.
Hi I am always impressed with your pottery and techniques, I am a beginner, can I use an slip from white clay and painted it the raku ?
Thanks. I don't have any experience with raku so it would be had for me to answer any questions about it.
About retting the yucca leaves...a similar process is/has/can be used to process flax for spinning. Do you know whether yucca can be/has been/is used to make thread to weave things?
Not that I have ever heard of, but maybe, I am no expert of fiber crafts
Just great thanks always informative and helpful.. ROB
Thanks Rob!
Andy... I am learning lots from your wonderful videos. And it's very very interesting. Thank you
Where I live, I am not easily finding smectite, even online. Would food grade kaolin clay alternately do? Thanks in anticipation
No, kaolin is not the same as smectite, quite different. You can try commercially available bentonite clay, that is a type of smectite.
Your pots are beautiful
Thank you
Wonderful video. I would love to buy some of your white and red slips whenever you decide to sell them. In the meantime I will experiement with some surface firing with clays and slips I have. Also, any suggestions for roots/seeds/berries to use as organic paint on the East Coast.
I have had decent success with roadside sunflowers, the whole plant, leaves, stems, flowers, buds, everything, put in a pot and boiled down. I assume you have those on the east coast.
yo Andy!
what are some other binders, other than smectite clay, for earthen pigment?
appreciate U
If you are hoping to use organic paint then you must apply that to smectite clay, so bentonite or montmorillonite or something like that. Mineral based paint can use other things like clay or organic binders.
Great video
Thanks!
Also, i made a fine liquid paste fron white clay to paint in a red pot...same qustion, do i joint sodio carbonate on the white liquid clay??? thank s
I’ve never used that stuff so maybe it will help or maybe not, I can’t say.
What could you use to paint and decorate pots with that is commercially available? I have a good source of clay to build with, but was wanting to just buy paints. Mineral paint?
If you want to buy paints then just use commercial underglazes, I know a lot of people who do that.
Thanks Andy. Do you sell your work anywhere or have an online gallery?
I sell some of my work on my website here ancientpottery.how/product-category/pottery/
@@AncientPottery Thanks, I'll check it out!
My question is, when i make a powder from oxid iron, for example, then joint water to make a paste...do i joint any sodio carbonate???....the intention is drawing in a white pot...thank s
I make red paint from iron oxide by adding a little but of clay to the iron oxide, nothing else except sometimes an organic binder
@@AncientPottery thank you...trying with and without...
Question: What is organic paint?
Paint made from plant material that carbonizes 8n the firing to create black designs. ua-cam.com/video/kiy1gbmyRuc/v-deo.html
Where do you get the white slip?
I dig and process it myself in northern Arizona. I ought to sell the stuff.
I've only watched 2 or 3 of ur videos, and am seriously thinking about taking a class. What is slip? Is it the paint u put on before you paint?
Slip is like paint but it is really just a thin clay solution to add color. Check out my online classes, they are informative, guaranteed and inexpensive.
ancientpottery.how/online-pottery-classes/
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This is how the NZ Maori strip native flax.
@ ~ 7 mins, you are painting horizontal lines from a vertical approach, which seems awkward to me, would it have been easier to have laid the piece on its side and painted it from that vertical approach?
I'm assuming that you are working in this way to allow the camera to have the best angle, which speaks to your talent as an artist as well as an educator.
@ 10:30 mins, you are talking about the white slip. Would applying it while the pot is either leather hard or mist dampened bone dry, allow a small amount to bind with the clay? Then after its dry, before any polishing, you use burlap to remove the "excess" to keep it as thin as you make it seem it needs to be.
Mostly that awkward angle is because this organic paint is super sticky and you want to handle the pot as little as possible so you don't accidentally put your hand in it and make a mess.
I apply the slip while the pot is leather hard, sometimes I polish it lightly and sometimes I don't, I think the ancient potters did it both ways. My ways of working with this type of pottery are to make it as much like the ancient pottery as possible. Thanks
What slip?
Sorry, do you mean where is the slip or what is slip? The red and white areas on this pot are slip (liquid clay) that were painted on.