Indigenous Material Sources

     

(Sometimes I really hate Blogger) Sample A is on the Left Sample B is on the Right. The test sample on the bottom is Sample A taken to ^06.

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This is the site where I collected samples A and B, this location is on the Yakama Indian Reservation. 

The dots you can barely see around the turquoise were made with slip on Sample B at 100% and fires to ^6 and the fired again to ^06.

 

The dots on this pitcher are slip work down with 100% sample A, and fired to ^10.

(left to right) Sample A to ^06, Sample B ^06, Sample B ^08, Sample C ^06

This site, also on the Yakama Indian Reservation is where I collected sample C. Sample C, I fired to ^08, ^06, ^6 and ^10. It was happy at all firing except for ^10.

This is Sample C marbled into a ^6 throwing clay body and fired bare to cone 6.

This is also Sample C fired to ^10 when mixed at a 50/50 ratio with Ball Clay. This piece has a light Shino glaze on it as well. The body is nice to throw but I had difficulty thinning the walls of the piece.

And finally samples D and E. D and E look promising when I dug them up but when I returned to the studio and compared them with my other samples the looked like dirt so I discarded them.