Pottery Top Tip: Sculptural Poppy Heads Part 2 Oxiding & Glass Frit - Pottery Video/Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2021
- This video tutorial is part 2 (following on from Top Tip Tuesday:Handbuilding Pottery Tutorial; Making Sculptural Poppy Heads for the Garden (PART 1). In this video I run through the way that I decorate the sculptural poppy/seed heads with oxides and glass frit. They look amazing on a patio or deck or nestled in your garden borders for all year round interest.
Hello again from The Pottery Corner my studio near Chichester on the South Coast of England.
The Great Pottery Throwdown is back on the television for a new series and we are still in lockdown and I am missing my students! I hope this will inspire you to make your own sculptural seed/poppy heads. It would be great to see photos of your pieces via email to sarah@thepotterycorner.co.uk. Check out my Top Tip Tuesday videos for tips on clay related processes.
If you wish to see items for sale from the studio head over to my Etsy shop or via my website at www.thepotterycorner.co.uk to view course information and the kiln services I offer. The links are below.
Hope you have a chance to take a look. Do like and subscribe to see more from the studio. Cheers Sarah
The glass is fantastic and oxide gives them a perfect coloring! Just excellent!
Hi again. So pleased you like the effect. I have many in my garden that I made years ago and they're still going strong. Do send me a photo via my Website if you make your own version 😊
I just love your video's!
Thanks so much for watching . Great to have you along 😀
Oh My Goodness Miss Sarah! I love your approach to allowing the clay and treatments do their own thing..... I have been out to my MudShack trying to get another load of test tiles ready---since I went on a Glaze Binge....whoopsie! I am inspired to attempt one of these now---if the cold weather would just lighten up as I had to keep a scarf, double layers of pants and tops as well as double socks.....had to crank up the lil heater to try and bring temp up to tolerable.....will be a couple weeks before I get another weekend out there---perhaps it will finally be warmer by then! This Community is so wonderful! Everyone is so nice and supportive! Thank you Again!
Hi Kd - great to hear from you again. Luckily the weather has warmed a bit here after bitterly cold 🥶 weather for a couple of weeks. Glad you're going to have a go at making a poppy head- they look great in the garden and well received gifts if you can bear to part with them! See you on the next one - the monoprinting you've been waiting for 😁
@@thepotterycorner We just had approx 8" of snow dumped on us yesterday and it is still lightly falling this morning as I prepare to go to work. I am thinking as organic as the PoppyHeads are my Mother will probably snatch it for her lil apartment....LOL Oh I am so excited about the Monoprinting...I made my colored-Slip-Chalks (roughly a dozen in about 5 colors) I even had a swing at it with some underglazes on a small dish ... I may attempt to email you a pic to your PC email account :) have a Great Tuesday!
@@kdwalters4146 great - can't wait to see your work😁
Right now this is my number one go to pottery channel. The biggest reason (of many many reasons): the finished work is shown. I am SOOOOOOOOO tired of channels that think they're done when they have the glaze applied to bisqueware. My take away there is that they are ashamed of the results.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to leave a lovely comment. Much appreciated. Where are you viewing from? Great to have you along.😀
@@thepotterycorner Retired in rural North Carolina. I make pottery (that I give away) and attempting to integrate welded metal art (not successful yet). But, these poppy heads have really captured my attention and think, because of their 'earthy' look and feel that they may lead to the metal/pottery breakthrough I'm looking for. Thanks to you for that!
@@stickermigtigger - do drop me a picture of your finished pieces. Always interested in seeing other interpretations. Great to have you along. Don't forget to subscribe 😁
Love it! So freeing the way you relinquish control with the oxides. I want to make some of these. Thanks!
Thanks Mary - do send me photos - I'd love to see your version. 🙏
Lovely tutorial,my first visit and I will watch again. Thank you.
Thanks Lisa- great to have you along. Thanks for watching 😀
Thanks Sarah , I'm watching from lockdown in Australia . I am going to make some poppies tomorrow. Just love your videos !
Hi Cas - poor you being locked down again. Suspect this might happen to us in the winter. Hope that means you have more time for clay. Do post me a pic on Instagram of your creation - tag me @the.pottery.corner ! 😊
Wow. I really enjoyed your demonstration. So easy to understand. Thank you. Will tell all my pottery friends at the studio to definitely look at your RUclipss. I have learnt so much from your top tips, making pottery much easier. Uk Weymouth Dorset. Jeanette. Happy Potting
Thanks so much Jeanette- Thanks for your kind words 😊
Brilliant thanks Ive been looking forwrd to to this one!
Thanks Jane- glad it was helpful 😁
Thanks loved the poppy head tutorial and look forward to watching part 2 ….your instruction is very clear … from Victoria in Australia
Thanks for watching Kathryn 😁. Great to have you along
Found your video today, loved it. Watching from Arizona. Can’t wait to try this making one, making it into a barrel cactus. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching - great idea! 👍
Just rewatched this as updating my notes and glad I did as had omitted some of the processes. It is so useful to be able to re-visit tutorials fir this reason and to have as a refresher. So well presented Sarah 👍🙂
Thank you Carolyn can't wait to have you back in the studio for face to face teaching and clay therapy. I've missed you all! 🥰
@@thepotterycorner Any firm dates yet Sarah-I’m in the starting blocks and raring to go😂🤞
Will be looking at the diary. Making some changes. Bit worried that the lockdown easing dates may change again. I'll be in touch soon my lovely 😍
Thanks Sarah, another wonderful tutorial with loads of stuff to store in my heid.
I just got a wee Paragon Q 11-A test kiln and I am doing my first test tile firing today with three test tiles in it. You have inspired me to do more testing which is about time having started in 2017.
Enjoyed the video and hope the pots come out well..no doubts.
Stay safe and be well.
Thanks Freddie - good luck with the firing. Love test tiles like Forest Gumption says - you never really know what you're gonna get! Hope you're well too. Had first jab so feeling more positive. Hoping students can return in the not too distant future 🙏. Haven't had any since October. Thanks for watching and commenting again. Appreciated.
Wow, I love the pools of melted glass. I'm too chicken to use glazes so I'll be finishing mine with acrylic paints and resin, I'll send you a link when they're done.
Hi Cher - please do! Can't wait to see your interpretation 🙏. Thanks for joining me again
Hi Sarah vaishali from india!loved these two poppy making videos! Definitely gng to try that as my next project.
Thanks so much Vaishali 🙏. Great to have you along
Just found you on RUclips! Your lovely poppy pod. Your a marvelous teacher and really enjoyed your tutorial. Look forward to “ seeing” you again on You tube. Would take classes with you if I was in the UK. I’m in freezing Montana USA
Hi Judith- glad you've found me. I hope you find my videos useful- do subscribe to see rhe new content - usually published at midnight GMT on a Monday night. Thanks for your kind words- much appreciated 🙏
Thank you Sarah! Excellent tutorial... learned much! And didn't expect to see part 2 so soon! Love the glass frit, but I best not try since I use a community kiln. So glad I waited for part 2 before applying the finishing touches. I would have brushed on the oxide and wiped back, which is how I've always used oxide washes. But I can see your point about getting a smeared appearance with that technique. I use Maycos' stoneware washes, which are premixed oxides & very concentrated. And seeing the consistency of your mixture, it is obvious that I will need to dilute the Mayco copper wash quite a bit. Will be a while before mine is finished, but will definitely send pictures when done. Heard on the news tonight that the UK is having fewer COVID cases. Hope that is true, and that you'll be able to open up your studio again real soon! Thanks again & stay safe! Cheers from New Mexico USA. :0)
Thanks Joann - probably best not to use the glass in a community kiln - you'd not be best popular 😉. I do use oxides on my pieces and use it to 'pool' in the texture and wipe it back. However on these poppy heads I want a more organic look and this is why I try not to scrub the oxide on the surface. I've not tried the Match oxides - Mayco and I are not best friends 😂. Covid numbers are reducing and I'm hopeful that the studio can reopen but unlikely to be for several more weeks. It's been closed since the end of October- seems like forever! Do let me have some photos when your piece is finished - the first lot made my day!🙏
Loved the 1st part, can't wait to see this process, did the sleeves of your lovely white jumper survive with you leaning over the poppy head? Hope so as the jumper looks nice to, the warmth must have been needed in snowy England in the last couple of days🙂
Thanks Denise. My mum made the aran jumper and yes, it's warmth is definitely needed here in the winter. Thanks for watching 😊
I bought 4 tea or coffee mugs. And 3out the 4 they cracked the minute hot water was added. I have many kinds of mugs never ever any had cracked when the mug was not even half full
Have loved watching you making the poppy heads and been inspired to make a couple and been spending too. Have ordered some glass fruits but was wondering the glaze temperature you used? I've built with a stoneware clay. Have been a little impulsive - but just lived watching!
Hi Lorraine - My stoneware glaze temperature is 1230 degrees C. Glad you've had a go - great project.
Brilliant, thanks. Was that matt glaze you put over the oxides? I made 2 small ones a couple of days ago and will definitely try the oxides out when I can get to my coworking studio in Barcelona. At present we are not allowed to cross county lines, so I can't fire anything.
Hi Claire- it's just my usual gloss transparent but as it is not applied very thickly it just changes the oxide to green. Any transparent that you usually use would be fine. Good luck and don't forget to email me a picture! 😁
Oh good I bought 10 bags of clay that I ended up hating, now I know what to do with it. Sacrificial cookies 😂
Thanks for watching Jay. That'd be a lifetime of cookies made though 😄
That's was very informative,also can you use glass on whatever your doing just to add a bit of more sheen on spots. Just trying to learn more about pottery and different tips thanks again really enjoyed it. Very easy to follow and understand. Just trying to learn more about oxides and stuff like that.
Hi Heidi great to have you along. You can use glass on glaze - just remember it may change colour on the glaze and it will travel if it doesn't have a 'dish' shape to hold it.
@@thepotterycorner thanks and that's a good tip
Can you tell me at what temperature you fire it with the glass frit ? I love your video.Thank you so much !
Hi Brigitte - I fire the poppy heads to my routine glaze firing programme which is 1230 degrees centimetres. Be very careful to have a large sacrificial cookie underneath to protect your kiln shelf!! 😁
Beautiful.. does dichroic glass work well in the kiln?
Hi Tracy. Thanks for watching. I think the firing temperature would be way too high for dichroic- but I haven't actually tried it. Dichroic is very expensive so would be a costly experiment. Feed back to me if you have a go! 😁
Hello, Sarah. Thank you very much for the video❤ I would love to try working with copper oxide too but I can get only copper carbonate. Can it be used instead? I am also curious to know if oxides/carbonates affect other pieces' colours in the kiln at such a high temperature or not.
Hi and thanks so much for watching. I do have copper carbonate but haven't had such good results with this as with copper oxide. I would suggest you do some test tiles to see what happens. If the oxide is applied very thick then, yes, it does sometimes "blow" in the kiln onto other pieces so it is wise to put all the oxided pieces on one shelf together. Sometimes you get happy accidents though which can't be repeated! 😀
@@thepotterycornerMany thanks for your reply! As well as you, I love unexpected results sometimes but information about "blowing" is extremely important for me as I share the kiln with other people, and I should care about them😊 As for the carbonate, I will do experiment with it then✨
Hi. Love your work ❤️ Am having a go!! Just one question....are the cookies/patties bisque fired or do you use them in there dried green ware state? Many thanks.
Hi - I bisque fire the cookies first but I believe you can use them in their greenware state. Not tried that myself though. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching.
@@thepotterycorner lovely, thanks very much 🙂 think I’ll go for bisque fired patties!
When you did your explanation of the types of glass you did not mention glass seed beads...do you think they would work? Thanks for your time.
Hi Mary- yes you can use the glass beads. However I would try these on a small dish first to see what happens. The firing temperature is very high for glass so might not work. Don't mix the colours either as they have different coefficients. Pretty coloured glass bottles work well too. Hope that helps and thanks for watching 😀
It might be interesting to add the oxides or glazes with a pipette
Great idea Sue - you'd need to shake it to distribute the oxide when using 😀
I live in Quebec Canada
Thanks so much for watching Maha all the way from Canada 🇨🇦 😊
I would love nothing more than to join you in a class, however South Africa is a tad far so I will have to be content with You on You Tube.
Hi Michelle - RUclips is an excellent place to find out about different techniques. I'm so glad you've found my channel about all things clay. Welcome aboard.
How can send you a picture of my mugs
why not to mix it in transparent, clear glaze instead of waster ?
Hey Gonen. Thanks for watching. If you mix the oxide with a clear glaze it will turn green. To keep it black it needs adding without glaze over the top. Really hope that helps 😀