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TWO TONE COPPER BANDED WARM ROUND TINTED HORSEHAIR ROB DREXEL DECORATIVE POTTERY O4

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DECORATIVE TINTED HORSEHAIR TECHNIQUE This pottery is about 6.5" high and 8" wide. Gallery priced at $85 to $110 WHAT IS HORSEHAIR TECHNIQUE? First - you've got to get a horse to back up really close to the kiln - a trick in... See more » DECORATIVE TINTED HORSEHAIR TECHNIQUE This pottery is about 6.5" high and 8" wide. Gallery priced at $85 to $110 WHAT IS HORSEHAIR TECHNIQUE? First - you've got to get a horse to back up really close to the kiln - a trick in itself! OK, not really - the hair is already off the horse - although I suspect that a potter (Native American, as the story goes) bent over a bit too far and discovered the process in an unfortunate hair-singeing accident. Horsehairing has not been around so long - and, since all such definitions are subjective, it is definable as modern American RAKU depending on how you define modern American RAKU - Be that as it may, the technique is easy in concept but a bit trickier in practice - you must heat the pottery to the right degree (somewhere over 1000 fahrenheit) and then discern the coolness of the day and how fast you can "artistically" apply horse tail hair to the piece - getting it all the way around in an attractive fashion. Too hot and the hair will smoke the piece too much causing a muddy look - too cold and - very little or nothing is left for markings. You have between 20 and 45 seconds to do the job well depending on the temperature of the day, the thickness of the piece (heat retention), the wind and so on. Doing this inside is out of the question - this stuff STINKS! :-) If I don't like the results - like with RAKU and PITFIRE, I can risk additional attempts sometimes with the result of having more "pieces" of the pieces than I intended (!) Any quick burning material can leave marks and patterns - feathers do well - but the horsehair seems to have the right balance of fat and protein to burn in this nice carbon-y way while the clay body shrinks and absorbs the lovely squiggles. *** Rob and his partner Nikola Kael are part of a family of local New Mexico High Desert Artists called MAAT - Monte Alto Arts Atelier that includes the following ETSY stores - please visit us!! Delightful Artsy Accent Mirrors, Clocks, Candles and more http://www.littleshopofmirrors.etsy.com Original Art & Unique CeramicTechnique Pendants http://www.PendantMagicK.etsy.com Wonderful Functional Ceramic Bowls http://www.WeGotBowls.etsy.com Funky Fun and Outrageous Bright Painted Pottery http://www.popartpots.etsy.com Visionary Artwork, Best-selling books and more from Timothy Wyllie http://www.sacredimagery.etsy.com See Ya There! ABOUT ROB DREXEL: also visit: www.robdrexel.com I have produced and successfully sold my PITFIRED pottery for the last 17 years in many dozens of upscale craft galleries coast to coast and even a touch in Europe. I still appreciate my quality gallery representatives (inquiries are invited!), but with our rapidly changing market economics, the internet is a natural expansion of my sales (and survival ...) efforts. Galleries sell my work starting between $40 and $50 for the small pieces and ranging up to $2000 for the large "masterworks". EVERY PIECE A UNIQUE CREATION! One final comment: Each DREXEL piece is individually hand thrown or hand constructed from slab. Those of us lame-brain do-it-the-hard-way potters who still insist on creating every last piece by hand love to take the holier-than-them attitude about others that make a SLIP MOLD of their work and make the same exact piece over and over and over again (ad infinitum & ad nauseum!). For what it's worth to you - EVERY WHEEL-THROWN OR HAND-BUILT PIECE THAT ALONE BARES MY NAME is individually created by me and is unique unto itself. Enjoy! See less »

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ceramics, decorative, gold, hair, handmade, horse, horsehair, pottery, raku, rob drexel, wheel-thrown

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From the list : Things I Love by mokshasha

great colors and horsehair technique

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