HansHolt
raku box
Canon EOS 6D - f/8.0 - 1/100sec - 100 mm - ISO 1600
- for Flickr group 'Macro Mondays', theme: 'Pick Two
-"striped/jagged/delicate pottery"
-This box with lid, made by artist Anneke Schuurmans, we bought at an art exibition in 1991.
Width is 5cm. The blue in the bokeh are Iris sibirica "Perry's Blue".
-This pottery is so called Raku ware.
The Raku technique is essentially when glazed ceramics are taken from the kiln while they are still glowing red hot and are then placed in a material that would be able to catch fire, such as sawdust or newspaper. This technique is used to starve the piece of oxygen, which creates a myriad of colors within the glaze. Raku firing without glaze on them means that the oxygen is taken from the clay itself rather than a glaze, which results in some areas having a matte black coloring.
Raku firing creates completely unique pieces as there is never a certainty as to how the final piece will turn out. Raku essentially creates a unique design every time, so there is less control on the outcome.
raku box
Canon EOS 6D - f/8.0 - 1/100sec - 100 mm - ISO 1600
- for Flickr group 'Macro Mondays', theme: 'Pick Two
-"striped/jagged/delicate pottery"
-This box with lid, made by artist Anneke Schuurmans, we bought at an art exibition in 1991.
Width is 5cm. The blue in the bokeh are Iris sibirica "Perry's Blue".
-This pottery is so called Raku ware.
The Raku technique is essentially when glazed ceramics are taken from the kiln while they are still glowing red hot and are then placed in a material that would be able to catch fire, such as sawdust or newspaper. This technique is used to starve the piece of oxygen, which creates a myriad of colors within the glaze. Raku firing without glaze on them means that the oxygen is taken from the clay itself rather than a glaze, which results in some areas having a matte black coloring.
Raku firing creates completely unique pieces as there is never a certainty as to how the final piece will turn out. Raku essentially creates a unique design every time, so there is less control on the outcome.