Post #462514 by 4WDtiki on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 9:15 AM

On 2009-06-15 22:28, MadDogMike wrote:
Bill, WHERE'S MY PICTURE!!!???

Ahhmm, I forgot? :D
So now you get FOUR pics!

Back in the early 90s, before I knew Tiki, I was drawn to African tribal art.
(I now see a LOT of similarities to Tiki.)
This was my first mask ever, in any medium! It's stoneware with beige-ish glaze highlights, raku fired. All the "black" areas are bare clay. All these pieces were first bisque fired, then refired ala raku.

Left mask was fully glazed, right mask same as above, plus a little green.

Left mask is my fav, the one I'm most proud of. It's bare clay with some iron(?) oxide wash on the hair and scarifications.
Mask on right also has the oxide, and the rest of it was burnished with a spoon when leather-hard. This made it tougher for the carbon to penetrate during raku.

Two more that to me show hints of tiki.
Unknown glaze on the right one, but I loved how it resembled lichen on a rock.

Maybe what I was doing wasn't strict raku, since I wasn't going for crazing glaze, but it was the same technique.

Maybe at Babs's next clayjam, he'll let us raku!