Glaze Kiln Opening: Amazing Amaco/Craft Crank Birdbath and more Wonky Pots (Pottery Tutorial)
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- In this video we unload another glaze kiln containing some of my own work and also a couple of pieces by two 16 year olds who recently attended an Introduction to Throwing Course.
My commission Birdbath comes out with flying colours using Amaco Glazes; Blue Rutile/Palladium/Adventurine and Cosmic Teadust.
We unpack a couple of the Wonky Pots made during the Wonky Pot tutorial - do take a look at the tutorial on how to make them and also have a look at the Etsy shop to purchase the template to make your own. There is a link to my Etsy show below.
One of the Wonky Pots made in the tutorial has been decorated using my own bisque texture stamps and again there are still a few sets available in the Etsy shop is you wanted to take a look. The other has been decorated using monoprinting techniques and, again, do have a look at the Monoprinting Playlist for this fabulous and very addictive technique!
The flower rings continue to be a good seller for me and in this kiln load there is a Amaco Palladium version which has come out well - although, as usual, there are pinholes in the Palladium. If anybody out there has any tips of how to avoid this please do put in the comments for me - I’d be so grateful.
My work is available to purchase via my Etsy shop (link below) if you’d be kind enough to take a look.
Hi I’m Sarah Amos. I gave up my day job and am now living the dream as a full-time potter and teacher, running courses from my studio, The Pottery Corner, in a little village just outside Chichester on the South Coast of England. With Cissy and Charlie, my studio companions, we welcome students of all abilities from complete beginners to the more experienced, teaching throwing on the potters wheel as well as handbuilding techniques.
I love to share my clay experience and knowledge by passing on pottery techniques in my Pottery Top Tip videos; which include full tutorials on items to try out yourselves. I also sell my work via my Website and Etsy Shop. So grab a cuppa, sit back, relax and let’s dive into what’s going on in The Pottery Corner today.
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What can I say that others haven’t just love the stamping on the wonky and the bird bath is just amazing ty for sharing 😊
Your tutorials are fantastic. Informative, creative and really interesting. Thanks for doing these.
Stunning bird bath and wonky pots Sarah. I really love the glaze and your texture stamps on the wonky pot 😍 Very inspirational as always 👍🏻
Thanks so much for your kind words Lynn. Great to hear from you again😀
Hi Sarah - I love watching your videos - thank you for inspiring us with your knowledge and creativity ! Greetings from South Africa - Ronel
Thanks for watching and for your kind words 😁
That bird bath with the beautiful brown birds and exceptional leaf design would make a lot of people happy to have. WOW! I imagine that a lot of dark brown birds would be happy to join that pair.
Olympia and Nina's mugs are very impressive. I noticed that the wall on Nina's looked really thin, something that I still don't always get when throwing..
Looking forward to seeing all the wonky pots that you have inspired.
Cheers...Freddie
Thanks as always for your kind words Freddie. Always great to hear from you with your lovely comments. Cheers for now😀
The bird bath is magnificent.......I love it so much and the birds too.
Well done......I would like one sent to Australia please hahahahaha 😂😂😂 😉
Thanks Lisa for your kind words 😁🙏
Beautiful bird bath 😍😍😍
Thanks Anita - great to hear from you again.
Love Love Love your birdbath! It's really inspiring to see it finished. Thanks for sharing.
On a separate topic, I'm encouraging you to ask one of your tech savy students to show you how to save your info sheets in PDF format. At 63, I'm not very tech savy either so I do sympathize with you but my skills have improved due to the help I've been given by patient co-workers. Once you're shown how to save a file in PDF you'll be able to do it very easily.
Thanks for watching Dawn. I'd need my son in law to help me. I'm sure I'll get round to this at some stage. Thanks for the encouragement!😁
The bird bath is awesome. Been waiting for it. All my rhubarb is gone so I have to wait for next year’s crop.
Hi Carolyn. Great to hear from you again. I have been coaxing my rhubarb through the summer and have another bird bath make so hoping there is one the right size 🙏. It's a good project so I think I'll do a tutorial on this make - in time for next year's rhubarb leaves 🍃😊
Hey Sarah, another interesting and informative video thanks! Keryn
Thanks Keryn. Great to hear from you. Hope you're OK- are you still in lockdown??
Love the bird bath Sarah! Well done! Thank you for answering my question about removing the cookie before refiring the mugs upside down. Love your videos. Thank youl
Hi Annemarie and thanks for watching again. Great to have you along 😀
Hi Sarah, I do a 10-15 minute hold at the top with palladium....with lots of cookies/stilts for runs......but no pin holes. Jessica from Pacifica
Hi Jessica- great to hear from you again. Thanks for the tip with palladium- what's your top firing temperature 🌡?? I fire up to 1230 degrees centigrade and have a 10 minute hold which may not be long enough 🤔
I fire to cone 5, 2187f, with hold at top. Sounds like you may be doing that too. So the only other thing is thickness, but your pin holes are at the top of the piece, so I'm puzzled. Its a tricky glaze but lovely. I've given up on all my adventurine, cosmic tea dusts-they are just brown. Let me know if you discover a palladium secret. Jessica
Loving the rhubarb leaf birdbath. I have printed into cement with large courgette leaves if you are running out of rhubarb.
I've often looked at my courgettes that way too! Thanks for watching Amanda 😁
These are absolutely amaaazing!! Such beautiful pieces!!!
Thanks so much Michele 🙏
The bird bath is beautiful; a stunning original piece…LOVE IT !!!
Thanks so much Gill. Nothing of yours in this kiln though 😢
I ADOORE your beautiful yard leaf. It is magnificent just as it is :)
Thanks for watching Frances. The customer was delighted with it so I didn't change it. I'm not a big fan of brown glazes! Bit too 1970's for me 😂
Love those wonky pots 😊😊❤️ definitely will have a go at making one 🤔 thank you so much for all your fab tutorials ❤️❤️
Hi Annalea 👋 - I'm so pleased you're going to have a go at the wonky pot project. It's a great make 😀
3:25 that is so funny because I was thinking Oatmeal over the top and refire. I love oatmeal over most things. I was also thinking the birds would have been cool with iron luster on the bottom and oatmeal over the top. But for an outdoor piece that cosmic tea dust with shine nicely in the sun. I got an interesting reaction with using black underglaze at the bisque firing then layering on the cosmic tea dust for the glaze firing. That was quite sparkly. I love this piece.
Thanks so much for your kind words. I just love that us potters even think the same way 😁. I have another commission for another bird bath and will probably do a tutorial on the making as this seems popular. Keep watching 👀🙂
@@thepotterycorner I would love to see a tutorial on making a bird bath. I want to make so out door pieces.
Wonky Pots look amazing! Congrats to new students on their first pieces, very impressive! Sadly I believe my ol' kiln is in need of element transplant, or I just need to get my newest big Boy kiln wired up. Not many of my pieces turned out, witness cones showed we barely made it to C5 at the bottom. It was supposed to be C6 w/30min hold :( alas I have more items drying out in the shack, and have contacted a handy man to get some increased power out to the kilns, and then can figure out what to do with the ol'gal / lil kiln. PS, Miss Sarah I loved that you named your kilns and it helped me not to feel so insane that I named the new Big Boy-- Gerome, and my lil ol' gal Pixie. Happy to know you have live bodies returning to the studio.
Thanks Kd - us potters must be as mad as each other 😜
Bird bath looks great! Pinholes 🤬 have been having a few problems with my Amazon satin mattes and found a glaze firing program to prevent pinholes on the Amaco Exchange Forum - 6 stages 🙀but kiln cooling now and will let you know if it works. I’m crossing my fingers 🤞🏼
Goodmorning Sarah! Wow, that rhubarb leaf is stunning! I also love your flower rings, might have to steal that idea someday... ;-) Thank you so much for showing of my mug! I appreciate you mentioning my channel and my sgraffito work.
Hi Monique - so good, as always, to hear from you. Did you like your mug having a staring role in this video - my first coffee of the day mug - a really special piece. Thanks for the tip on slightly higher bisque temperature. I take mine to 1000 so I might be over what you do already but we shall see - always interesting to hear other peoples firing programmes. Sending love to your beautiful island.😍
I am looking for the link to Monique (your mug) and dont see it. Can you add it please. Thank you, always special and delightful to watch you teaching. Nicole from Canada
Hi Nicole - if you search for Nu Kua ceramics on RUclips and Facebook you should find Monique. She has a small RUclips channel which is very interesting and has a video on how she made my gorgeous mug 😊
@@thepotterycorner Here I am! :-)
I’d be happy to create a pdf file for you and send it to you. Then customers could purchase an instant download from your ETSY store!
Thanks for the order. 😁
Wonderful works/ pieces!! Wondering which temperature you have in the kiln when you have only oxid (and glaze somevare) on the pieces? 😄Are you change from normal temperature you use?Once again big thanks!!❤️
Hi Helena. Thanks for your comment. I fire to my usual stoneware glaze programme temperature (1230 degrees centigrade) whether pieces are glazed or just oxided. Hope that helps
@@thepotterycorner Big thanks for answering!!
Hi Sarah, very happy to make the template into a PDF for you, let me know if I can help.
Hi Karen - thanks for that - it's not actually on the computer at all - I have just made a cardboard template which I use for making the craft foam ones to send out. I might speak to my much younger son-in-law to see if this is something we can do!
@@thepotterycorner 💕
Well done with the bird bath. Question: any concern about palladium having contact with water that will be consumed by birds/wildlife? It is my understanding that palladium is not food safe.
Hmm- good point. However there is so little of it that it won't be a problem. Theoretically of course you are right. Thanks for commenting 🙂
But water is not food. The food safe issue comes in where acidic foods come in contact with glazes.
Hello Sarah I enjoy your channel very much, so helpful!!!!! You mentioned a potter, John Potter? Hope I have that right. Will you please pass on contact information on him ie: website, RUclips. Thank you
Hi Rebecca - he's Jon the Potter. Really big on RUclips and a great character. Thanks so much for watching and your kind words 😁
Hello Sarah, your birdbath is gorgeous, but please be aware that the form used is too deep for most songbirds that generally frequent backyards/gardens and can cause drowning - wrens, tits, sparrows, finches, even larger birds like robins, starlings, cardinals, etc depending on geographical location.
May I suggest that your client place stones or pebbles in the bowl for the smaller birds, so the water level doesn't rise any higher than their legs at the deepest part of the bath.
I mention this also so that in case you plan to make more birdbaths, to please keep this aspect in mind.
I volunteer at a wildlife rehabilitation center and we always make sure to offer water to the songbirds in shallow dishes to prevent drowning.
Lovely work! thank you for sharing your videos. Cheers.
Hi Red. Thanks for the constructive comment. I had mentioned the pebbles in the water for ease of egress for smaller birds. We get a lot of blackbirds bathing around our way but good point to make.
How can I send you a picture?
Hi Carolyn- you can email me a picture via sarah@thepotterycorner.co.uk or tag me on Instagram @the.pottery.corner 😊
Just save your word files in a different format right in the application itself.
Thanks for watching and the tip!