Raku, pit firing, and more...
Raku | Smoke firing (various)

(Please remember that Raku and Smoke Fired pieces are porous and therefore can not be used to contain liquids or foods. They are meant to be fine art pieces.)

 

 

  

There are many different ways of firing. With a kiln or without is entirely up to you. There's Pit, Smoke, Barrel, Saggar, Salt/ Soda firing among many others. Read more about Raku and various smoke firing techniques here. (I use Raku and smoke/pit firing for my work.)

Raku firing can have its ups and downs as well with cracking, explosions and awful color. I’ve picked two of the oldest ways of

 

firing (there are many others) because that’s exciting to me to have the fire respond directly to the work.

I love the results of Raku so I will keep experimenting and enjoying this method...

— Natalie

 

 

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