With the completion of the sheep pot I am almost halfway done with the Ancient Pottery Challenge for this season. Learn about the background of this these pots and the cultures that made them by watching my roadtrip across the Southwest ruclips.net/video/YLamGmqHIXk/видео.html
Какая красота! Сколько смотрю, столько и удивляюсь и радуюсь! Да, с глиной очень нужно терпение! И все-таки, какое удовольствие, работать с глиной, выглаживать её, доводить до гладкости каждый бочок изделия! Обожаю работу с глиной, душа отдыхает, глаза радуются тому, что получается из волшебного комочка обыкновенной глины! Всем здравия и радости от творческих работ с любимой глиной! С любовью и уважением из СССР, Ростовская область.
I think with the advent of laser thermometers and some of yours and others documenting your primitive firings, archeologist may have to raise the bar a bit on what is considered max primitive temperature reached. Very nice pot Andy !
Holy complication Batman! I had no idea you could do that kind of coil building. Damn! Thanks man for the informative video. The sheep looks awesome!! Nailed it
That is amazing! We may just skip out on this one, or make a smaller version, but only because we don't have much more space right now to store something that big!!! LOL! Great work, Sir! Great Pot!!!
Your form reminds me a little of sand casting. It looked like nice way to make the basic form you wanted for your slab. I wonder if it would be possible to use slip to cast a sand casting hmm. Tangent. Gorgeous effigy. Creative techniques.
Wow! This is beautiful and impressive! Thank you for sharing this process with us, you make it look so doable 😃. What is the name of the book that you’re using for referencing the art?
That's not a bad result. If you want it to stay completely black (without red spots) try using coverd sherds, don't remove the embers and cover it completely with dirt until there is no smoke coming out from the fire and you basically have a dense layer of dirt over the embers that covers it all. Really a beautiful sheep, that's just gorgeous!
Turned out great. I noticed you didn't set it on rocks when you fired it. Also, I tried the big flower pot on my last firing and the pot cracked and broke (but my pieces luckily survived). I thought maybe the pot needed to be heated up too, even though it was a fired terra cotta. Did you preheat the cover pot you used?
Yes, I wasn't sure how stable it would be with 4 legs on stones so I opted to set it directly on the hot earth which worked out fine. Most flowerpots don't work well because they are not tempered clay so they break from thermal shock in an open fire like this. My flowerpot was an earthenware, tempered flowerpot from Mexico, I could feel the temper in the body so I knew it would hold up.
I really like the multi colored effect. I wonder if the ancient potters had special shelving to keep their drying pottery on…? Seems like in their tight quarters breakage would have been a problem.😮
Thank you. Yes I usually sell everything I make on my website at AncientPottery.how but because I am traveling right now all pots are out of stock until I get home.
Hello Andy. I recently harvested some fine bluish clay from a hill that consists primarily of serpentine and schist. It is so fine it floats in my straining water. Perhaps I'll need to add loads of sand??
i’m 14 years old and i find watching your videos so fascinating and i’m not sure why. i was just wondering, could i fire pottery in my indoor log wood stove or would that not work?
That was awesome. I watched the history tour also...I heard the other day that the technocrats are going to charge to film in nat parks so that's disappointing because your video was a terrific education tool and record of history.
wet pieces of cloth work just as well to control drying as plastic bags, you can cut smaller pieces for the apendages, double them, put a dry cloth under the wet ones if you want to avoid them wetting the pot. At the end of the video it's as if you were holding a living creature in your hand!
I've been thinking about an idea. if you take a big clay pot. which has not been treated and allows water to pass through as much as possible. if you fill the pot with well-cleaned sand, stones, charcoal and moss. could it work as a water purifier?
Hello Andy beautiful piece there! So my schist/serpentine clay is finer then anything I've seen. Would it be safer to add sand or something to the clay?
I like this piece. Watching you with the build process made me wonder - how did the original makers keep it from drying too quickly? Obviously they didn't have plastic. I'm thinking they might have woven some natural fiber cloth? Or did they just use leather (or an animal skin)? (I'm not a potter - though I want to try this; I am a weaver, but of the 21st century.)
@@AncientPottery There were probably several sources of fiber for cloth: wool, cotton - lots of plants have fibers that can be used for cloth. With the trade they had with South America, there were probably many animal and plant-based fibers available. Thanks for that. I saw your question later in the video, similar to what I asked. To replace "plastic" they might have used animal bladders. I know this was done in Europe. I'm not as up on SW history.
@@AncientPottery WOW! That is amazing! I looked it up - 43" wide and 165 feet long!! Thank you so much for sharing! I know this has gone way off topic.
I know this is out of subject but I am new to your channel and to pottery. I am wondering if you have ever used green clay or any other colors? I was out today and found a bunch of really nice green clay and thought I'd give it a try ?
@Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery Had me wondering, albeit starting fires is a different skill set from putting them out, is there archeological evidence of surrounding landscape fires linked by location and time to any ancient ceramic firing sites?
@Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery Burning out underbrush establishing a fire line doesn't necessarily apply to starting wild grass fires unless it is used for creating a fire line against the spread of a wild grass fire. I'm glad you are experienced in fireline establishment as it might come in handy someday.
Hey Andy, love your videos and your willingness to share your trade like you do. I’m curious if it’s possible that the flaking on the slip of the tail might have been caused by not having enough clay added to the slip or perhaps the white and the base clay had different shrinkage rates? I know you had said it had gotten too hot, just wondering if those items I mentioned might have been a cause of this also? Thanks for you generous work and God bless you.
Thanks. No the slip is not fugitive in this area so it is not improperly bonded to the vessel. It is cracked deep, it is classic clay that has gotten too hot.
Do you think they might have used a large, clay lined basket? I believe that was used by the Southeastern Mississippian Culture to blacken their pots. They would set the still hot pottery in a pile of vegetative material and then put a clay lined basket over them. This would stop the plant material from catching on fire and not getting an even black coating. I see no reason that doing something similar to smother the fire and keep air away would not have occurred to them.
Interesting idea. Is there evidence that this was actually done in the east? It seems workable if the basket didn't burst into flames because of the heat of the coals.
With the completion of the sheep pot I am almost halfway done with the Ancient Pottery Challenge for this season. Learn about the background of this these pots and the cultures that made them by watching my roadtrip across the Southwest ruclips.net/video/YLamGmqHIXk/видео.html
Gee this makes me want to start something like this in back yard. My sister and are very creative and would love some pointers in getting started.
Wow! This is really good! This is the best pottery video I’ve ever seen. The sheep turned out great!
Thanks a lot Chad! Did you get the book I sent you?
8:05 he's sleeepingg
Definitely one of the coolest designs you've done! Nice job!
Thank you, it was a challenging project.
I really don't like to post anything ever, but Andy you are amazing! I loved the goat.
"EWE" have done an amazing job and this is the most charming piece ever!
What you said about controlled drying is so true! so, so true!
Thanks a lot!
Wonderful replica, Andy, I am amazed you got through that process without it collapsing inward. Your skill level is impressive.
Thanks, it's all about having good clay
@@AncientPottery Figures you'd give the clay the credit lol. We picked up some Sonoita in December, looing forward to working with it again.
Какая красота! Сколько смотрю, столько и удивляюсь и радуюсь! Да, с глиной очень нужно терпение! И все-таки, какое удовольствие, работать с глиной, выглаживать её, доводить до гладкости каждый бочок изделия! Обожаю работу с глиной, душа отдыхает, глаза радуются тому, что получается из волшебного комочка обыкновенной глины!
Всем здравия и радости от творческих работ с любимой глиной!
С любовью и уважением из СССР, Ростовская область.
Interesting 😊 The ancient potters were so creative.
They sure were, and they did amazing work in difficult conditions.
It is amazing how the ram became alive the moment you added the horns.
I noticed the same thing, funny how that works.
Thanks!
Thanks a lot!
Home run with the bases loaded.......what a great video..........
Glad you enjoyed it
It turned out so beautiful. Great videography ✨
Thank you so much!!
Great production, videography and project.
I’m looking forward to the Ancient Potters Zoom class tonight
Thanks Jeff. Oh that reminds me, I need to let my pitcher dry out today, I better go unwrap it now.
Your effigy pot is outstanding 👍🐏
Thank you kindly
Beautiful video Andy! You are the best instructor I ever had! I’ll try this little sheep on a smaller scale:) thanks a million💐🙏🏻
Awesome, thanks, glad you got something out of my video.
Super cool!
Thanks
I know it wasn’t what you were shooting for, but I actually like the look of both colors. It seems more “real” somehow.❤️🤗🐝
Yeah I like it too, thanks
@@AncientPottery you’re welcome❤️🤗🐝
So inspiring !!!
Beautiful piece 😊
Thank you so much!
@@AncientPottery ThankYOU 😉
I think with the advent of laser thermometers and some of yours and others documenting your primitive firings, archeologist may have to raise the bar a bit on what is considered max primitive temperature reached. Very nice pot Andy !
I saw John Olsen get over 1000 C at the 2021 SW Kiln Conference.
Holy complication Batman! I had no idea you could do that kind of coil building. Damn! Thanks man for the informative video. The sheep looks awesome!! Nailed it
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Wow, you make it look so easy and we know it's not easy. Beautiful job.
Thanks so much 😊
I really enjoyed that video and think that your sheep is just great
Thank you
That is amazing! We may just skip out on this one, or make a smaller version, but only because we don't have much more space right now to store something that big!!! LOL! Great work, Sir! Great Pot!!!
Space can be a big issue for a potter. What to do with all the pottery?
I quite enjoy the reduced and oxidized paint mixing. Great video as always.
Thank you, I like it too.
It’s a sheepy masterpiece, Andy!
Thank you!
Wow! That's such a cool design!!! Thank you for all you do Andy
You're welcome.
Whoa!! That sheep pot turned out darn awesome! Wow! This was a great video.
Thanks, will you try one too?
You have quickly become my favorite RUclips Channel. I haven’t even made any pottery yet!!
Thank you so much
This is amazing , I haven’t even thought about how the ancient’s fired their pottery. Great video great job . Thank you 🙏& blessings your way.
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Your form reminds me a little of sand casting. It looked like nice way to make the basic form you wanted for your slab. I wonder if it would be possible to use slip to cast a sand casting hmm. Tangent. Gorgeous effigy. Creative techniques.
Thanks. I don't know anything about sand casting.
Wow! This is beautiful and impressive! Thank you for sharing this process with us, you make it look so doable 😃. What is the name of the book that you’re using for referencing the art?
Thank you, the book is called "Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest" here is an affiliate link amzn.to/48DJxbV
@@AncientPottery thank you for taking the time to respond 🙌
Baaaaaaad ass sheep. Impressive build, and a good story well-told. Interesting observation that bowls and jars had different outcomes. Thanks
Thanks Wes, I hope you feel better soon.
It's more like sculpture than pot 😊
True, and this sort of technique is used by people who build large sculptural forms, but it's new to me.
Maybe the acients use corn husk soaked in water to control the drying, or damp deer hide or cloth.
Really enjoying your videos! So informative, inspiring, and well done.
Thanks so much!
That sheep is well done. You made it look easy
Thank you it is all in the video editing.
great work Andy..and the firing is spot on ..i may build a little lamb if i have the space..
Cool thanks!
That is so cool!!
Thanks
I think, it turned out perfect .
Thank you!
Andy...gracias por compartir tus conocimientos. Abrazos desde la Pampa del Tamarugal. Chile
De nada
Thank you again, for sharing. Your videos inspire me to tackle new projects.
Glad to help
That's not a bad result. If you want it to stay completely black (without red spots) try using coverd sherds, don't remove the embers and cover it completely with dirt until there is no smoke coming out from the fire and you basically have a dense layer of dirt over the embers that covers it all. Really a beautiful sheep, that's just gorgeous!
So cute!!!! Well done 😊
Thank you! 😊
Turned out great. I noticed you didn't set it on rocks when you fired it. Also, I tried the big flower pot on my last firing and the pot cracked and broke (but my pieces luckily survived). I thought maybe the pot needed to be heated up too, even though it was a fired terra cotta. Did you preheat the cover pot you used?
Yes, I wasn't sure how stable it would be with 4 legs on stones so I opted to set it directly on the hot earth which worked out fine. Most flowerpots don't work well because they are not tempered clay so they break from thermal shock in an open fire like this. My flowerpot was an earthenware, tempered flowerpot from Mexico, I could feel the temper in the body so I knew it would hold up.
I really like the multi colored effect. I wonder if the ancient potters had special shelving to keep their drying pottery on…? Seems like in their tight quarters breakage would have been a problem.😮
Especially if you had kids around. But they did not have shelves or tables, everything was stored on the floor.
As someone who is a traditional shepard I love this pot!!! Do you ever sell any pots you make ?
Thank you. Yes I usually sell everything I make on my website at AncientPottery.how but because I am traveling right now all pots are out of stock until I get home.
That is one chonky sheep! ❤️ I like the variegated look of the dye, its mote interesting than asolid color.
I like the the sheep it turned out nice
Thanks for video
Thanks
Nice job. That was enjoyable.
Thanks
Great step by step video.
Glad you think so!
Hello Andy. I recently harvested some fine bluish clay from a hill that consists primarily of serpentine and schist. It is so fine it floats in my straining water. Perhaps I'll need to add loads of sand??
Interesting. I would think that serpentine and schist would provide plenty of temper on their own, but experiment and see what works.
I’m in Love with that sheep 💕
i’m 14 years old and i find watching your videos so fascinating and i’m not sure why. i was just wondering, could i fire pottery in my indoor log wood stove or would that not work?
I have heard of people firing pottery in a wood stove but I have no experience with it
That was awesome. I watched the history tour also...I heard the other day that the technocrats are going to charge to film in nat parks so that's disappointing because your video was a terrific education tool and record of history.
Yes they already are, some RUclipsrs have had huge fines for filming in national parks.
Valeu!
Thank you so much!
@@AncientPottery Keep up the great work! I love your videos!
phenomenal work! it turned out beautifully!
Thank you so much! Oh I was just watching your video about improving clay this morning but didn't have time to finish it yet. Good work!
Wonder how they used the sheep. Seems like stuff would get caught in its nose. Lovely pot!
Agree, it's kind of an impractical shape.
Love it!!! It's beautiful!
Thank you!!
It’s absolutely beautiful. Would ancients have used leather to keep bits of clay dry? What would the pot have been used for do you think ?
Leather may have worked for that, maybe even damp leather. No idea what you would use this for, the shape would make it hard to pour from.
Looks awesome!
Thanks
Can you ever press small, or even tiny rocks or pieces of glass into the clay as decoration?
That could cause problems, better to add things like that after firing.
wet pieces of cloth work just as well to control drying as plastic bags, you can cut smaller pieces for the apendages, double them, put a dry cloth under the wet ones if you want to avoid them wetting the pot. At the end of the video it's as if you were holding a living creature in your hand!
Good tip, the ancients certainly had access to cloth. Thanks
Dude you got a good thing going!
Thanks
I've been thinking about an idea. if you take a big clay pot. which has not been treated and allows water to pass through as much as possible. if you fill the pot with well-cleaned sand, stones, charcoal and moss. could it work as a water purifier?
That might work. Something like this? ruclips.net/video/CBUb7A-cSF8/видео.html
So cool!
Thanks
Hello Andy beautiful piece there! So my schist/serpentine clay is finer then anything I've seen. Would it be safer to add sand or something to the clay?
You should always add temper to your clay
Love it you are the man,
Thanks
I like this piece. Watching you with the build process made me wonder - how did the original makers keep it from drying too quickly? Obviously they didn't have plastic. I'm thinking they might have woven some natural fiber cloth? Or did they just use leather (or an animal skin)? (I'm not a potter - though I want to try this; I am a weaver, but of the 21st century.)
As far as cloth, they had cotton in the prehistoric southwest so could have used cotton cloth.
@@AncientPottery There were probably several sources of fiber for cloth: wool, cotton - lots of plants have fibers that can be used for cloth. With the trade they had with South America, there were probably many animal and plant-based fibers available. Thanks for that. I saw your question later in the video, similar to what I asked. To replace "plastic" they might have used animal bladders. I know this was done in Europe. I'm not as up on SW history.
@@sallyboyd1212 There is an amazing rabbit net at the Arizona State Museum made entirely from human hair!
@@AncientPottery WOW! That is amazing! I looked it up - 43" wide and 165 feet long!! Thank you so much for sharing! I know this has gone way off topic.
I know this is out of subject but I am new to your channel and to pottery. I am wondering if you have ever used green clay or any other colors? I was out today and found a bunch of really nice green clay and thought I'd give it a try ?
Green clay often will fire to a yellow or orange color
Sooooooo beautiful!
Thank you!!
wet sand for drying?
Hmm, I wonder if you misunderstood something I said.
@@AncientPottery answering the question of how the ancients dried the clay before firing. i imagine using some medium that dries more uniformly...
@@sidthemyth Oh I see, yeah. That might work, you would want to get the moisture content perfect so as not to rehydrate the clay.
@@AncientPottery are there artifacts that might suggest the ancients used salt maybe to pull moisture from clay?
thanks for answering
Have you ever set any of the dry grass, that's in the background of the firing, on fire?
Heck yeah. I used to work for the Forest Service and got paid to light grass on fire.
@Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery Had me wondering, albeit starting fires is a different skill set from putting them out, is there archeological evidence of surrounding landscape fires linked by location and time to any ancient ceramic firing sites?
@@cactusbaboon321 actually fire fighters light a lot of fires. Control burns and burning out fire lines
@Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery Burning out underbrush establishing a fire line doesn't necessarily apply to starting wild grass fires unless it is used for creating a fire line against the spread of a wild grass fire. I'm glad you are experienced in fireline establishment as it might come in handy someday.
When was this pot made, since they had no sherp pre contact
Bighorn sheep are native to North America.
@@AncientPottery wow i had no idea thanks
Do you think adding a flux might make a difference?
I'm not a proponent of that theory. I don't believe a flux would make any difference in the oxidation or reduction of the paint.
Hey Andy, love your videos and your willingness to share your trade like you do. I’m curious if it’s possible that the flaking on the slip of the tail might have been caused by not having enough clay added to the slip or perhaps the white and the base clay had different shrinkage rates? I know you had said it had gotten too hot, just wondering if those items I mentioned might have been a cause of this also? Thanks for you generous work and God bless you.
Thanks. No the slip is not fugitive in this area so it is not improperly bonded to the vessel. It is cracked deep, it is classic clay that has gotten too hot.
@@AncientPottery thanks for reply, your work looks fantastic Andy! Thanks for sharing.
Such a cute beastie, reminds me of a Cake song.
I waiting this video thanks for uploading😇
Most welcome 😊
Do you think they might have used a large, clay lined basket? I believe that was used by the Southeastern Mississippian Culture to blacken their pots. They would set the still hot pottery in a pile of vegetative material and then put a clay lined basket over them. This would stop the plant material from catching on fire and not getting an even black coating. I see no reason that doing something similar to smother the fire and keep air away would not have occurred to them.
Interesting idea. Is there evidence that this was actually done in the east? It seems workable if the basket didn't burst into flames because of the heat of the coals.
What did you do today? "I made a taco out of clay" Uh, ok?
That thing is so cute. Well done 💕
Thank you
super
Thanks
🤩😍🥰 que fabuloso
Maybe the ancient potters controlled drying by covering the pottery with leaves, cloth or animal skin
Definitely a good possibility
So you used a doe trough!
Well, it is in fact a dough trough, or at least I think that's what it's called. What's so funny about that?
i envy you Andy,,,,
Thanks
14:42 trying to get that 🐐to smell like some KFC❓ 😂
Those KFC containers are perfect for paints and slips. I have a bunch of them.
@@AncientPottery I use em for storage also
i keep thinking how would this fare as big as a car, so you could sleep in it
Well there's big and then there's BIG!
@@AncientPottery but would you fire it buried? also what would the mixture have to be, something with plant material as well?
Trojan sheep? 😁
👍
Ok that is one cute sheep.
Thanks
Вот это баран, ну красота!
The Waffle House has found it's new host
Man oh man, I have seen this comment a few times recently.
You inspire me to take up pottery. 🫶🏽😇🫶🏽
Thanks, glad to help