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Pastimes : ceramics-clay-pottery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AugustWest who wrote (275)	3/25/2002 4:19:37 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 338

Well, the parenting thing is on the top of the list of priorities. The clay can always wait.. it isn't going anywhere in the meantime.. (o: I made a trip to the library to pick up some books today. Just been looking through one called "Paper Clay" by Rosette Gault. I saw some things in it that are mucho bizarre. There is a photo of an armature made of chicken wire with paper clay being applied to it to make a "dragon kiln" with a bunch of pots inside its "belly". The thing was made by some people in Hawaii. The dragon was stoked under its tail and breathed fire out of its jaws. There's a pic in the book of it. Later, you break the thing open to get the pots out of the inside. Apparently, you can make paper kilns and even self-firing sculptures out of sheets of high kaolin-content papers dipped in water and used to "plaster" over an armature.. and that these are highly heat resistant when they are ready to fire. I'm just reading about it, so I don't really know how it all works, but some of this stuff is pretty neat. Gonna try to find out more about it. Might be a fun thing to do for a summer night. Also got a book on raku... "Raku: Investigations into fire" by David Jones. Lots of ideas for all kinds of kilns and some really wonderful examples of raku in a wide variety of glazes, styles, etc... Pretty inspiring. I know what I will be reading tonight when I finally hit the hay. <gg> later, croc