This posting is specifically for one person, but I thought I could let you all in on it too because it's just too cool.
So, I did a barrel firing last night. This requires an oil drum (empty and dry), sawdust, kindling, wood, salt, crazy chemicals of my choosing (copper carbonate and soda ash mostly). Then you light it all on fire, let it burn freely for a bit and then cover it, in the hopes that you get some kind of oxidation going on. It looks like I did! That first picture is crazy. I have no idea where that yellow came from...possibly the soda ash.
This one is blurry, but the next one shows what I really like. Look at that fucking texture!! Definitely something cool going on there.
So I really like that buffy brown color on the top. This kind of firing really lends itself to form.
More beautiful texture below there. yes, very good.
Oh, and that red comes from the oxidation of the copper carbonate that I liberally threw on there.
These three pieces were the first ones I prepped for the firing. I didn't do much to them. They don't have a lot of character, but I can see what needs to be done if I am ever going to make flat pieces.
Now this one is just interesting. I applied tin oxide (the white) before the firing and the copper carb didn't even touch it. Look at that orangey brown around the black part...that's not a trick of the light. I want to work on getting more of that in my pieces too.
The last one...holy shit, where the fuck did that blue come from???
It's gotta be the cobalt that I painted on one piece, but why only in that one spot in that speckledy way?
Oh, and yeah, those are birds parts you are seeing up there. I have an idea. But now I have another idea, more for sales than for art's sake. But if I get to keep burning things up then I will be very happy to make stuff purely for the purpose of selling.
That's all I's got lovahs!
Love to all and all to love,
Beth
4 comments:
I can't wait to see how this all looks once it's put together. I especially like the blue in the last pic. Something about the first pic is mildly disturbing to me. Maybe it's because at that angle, the shape of it and the coloring sort of remind me of a diseased amputated limb. But you know how my mind goes weird places.
I kind of felt the same way. All the stuff with texture looks mildly diseased at best. Ah, well, you know, it makes for great art.
Those are really, really cool. I'm digging the method too. They look beautifully decayed.
I should have more stuff to show by the end of the weekend or beginning of next week. It should be good. the more I work this way, the more controlled chaos I will be able to obtain.
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