The metallic glazed raku provoked comments but, the last image of a pit fired piece was uncommented. I continued work on pit firing, this time trying to get more of the effect I happened upon in my initial testing: smokey, crusty, rough, unfinished, fossilized, and flaking. Well, there’s no flaking but the other things I got. The piece above really took on the fossilized character and, I love this even better than the fancy metallic raku. I’m sure the popular consensus is for the metallic glazes that are slick, shiny, glossy, not the ash-covered, smokey, unrefined, fossil looking piece. Whatever…

More metallic raku is in the works also, some white crackle raku. Firings beginning Monday.
(4 ¼ in.=11cm – an approximimation)