The 4 Easiest Natural Pottery Colors
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- In which I explain how to make the 4 most common colors found on ancient pottery.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Four Colors Found on Pottery Worldwide
0:40 How to Make Red on Pottery
1:39 How to Get Yellow on Pottery
2:43 How White Designs Are Made on Pottery
4:30 How to Learn More About Making Pottery Paint
5:30 Many Ways to Get Black Pottery Designs
7:51 Where to Get the Ingredients For Pottery Paint
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The White, Black and orange combination is beautifull.
Your channel is such a treasure. If someone would have told me that by making a simple cord from nettles, I would end up basket making, weaving, widdling, and eventually pottering making, I'd have laughed. But here I am happier than ever creating works of love with my hands and teaching my kids along the way 😀
So nice of you
I made my first polychrome yesterday. I started pottery when i was 13 at first it didnt go so well but after i started watching your videos it got alot better i have done pottery for a year now
That's awesome
Thanks!
I like that shelf of examples you are pulling from. Nice presentation and organization.
Thank you, this is my office because it is too hot to record in my studio
You can find vivianite / blue ochre ( rare)
I wish I lived closer to you. I would love to take some courses from you
Me too!
You have some amazing specimens
Thanks, Arizona has a lot of great minerals
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I haven’t been watching your videos recently, and I found your channel by that how to make clay video from a while back. I’m so glad to see you’re still posting and that you’re doing well :D
I hope more people comeback to watch your newer videos, and that more people find your channel
Thank you
Thanks Andy Ward! You seriously rock!
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Enjoy your channel very much Andy!
Thanks
That mug is an award winner! I really enjoy looking at that!!!! We got yellow clay, we have grey clay, and we have hard hard Iron oxide slip!!!! I will sell some smectite, and I will sell some grey, but the yellow is too rare!!
1:50 That is insanely beautiful
I hope to write a book but I haven't done it yet.thanks
@@AncientPottery I hope you do!
The firing is always the most challenging part
Definitely
I was watching one of your old live streams and someone asked about blood in paint. I’ve come to my own conclusions that it has the same properties as egg yolk and can be used as a binder in the same way for mineral paint. I personally use yolk for that because it’s the most accessible in my area.. and it doesn’t run away
Good stuff, thanks. I second your observation on yellow being rare. Its a long hard search.
Thanks
Nice reminds me of a song my mom taught me - the colors I mean...
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My sister brought me some ochres when she was in Province. A place called 'little Colorado'. Can I use them?
Yes ochre is great for red
You have very beautiful ancient pottery collection. ❤
Very amazing video 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks
Mount saint helens has red but it’s more purple in hue. Like a red violet.
So informative and useful, thank you. One day I will fall down the rabbit hole on this particular subject and build a firing solution in my back yard. 😅
I love rabbit holes!!! It reminds me of home! LOL! Sooner the better Ms. ladegaard! The clay tends to shape me at the same time I am shaping it!!! I love that! don't wait too long for this hobby to increase your well being!
@@markgibsons_SWpottery Thank you for sound advice. My current rabbit hole is soap making so don't worry, I am well entertained. I shall consider pottery for my next adventure. 🏺🏺🏺
Thanks, it is an enjoyable rabbit hole 🐇
Cool video Andy! Lots of awesome information here!
Thanks Will.
When you said if you want to order these I was like no way we arent about that on this channel this is primitive style. This craft is so interesting the natives have some really cool culture.
It is amazing to me, these videos are not made for children, that so many kids enjoy my content. Thanks
@@AncientPottery Im not that young lol
Great info Andy..the part about the copper and manganese firing off colour. Yellow i have found in very small amounts..ok for slip/paint . Its yellow and fires yellow.,strange as you say most is grey. I tried to make a small bowl with it, non plastic and you know when its just not right . im leaving a small amount in a bag to age for a few months..
This is great, thanks for the lesson and all the pottery examples are beautiful! I’m excited to share this with my partner who is a budding ceramicist. I’m inspired too to go out and forage materials!
I’m wondering about your language too, I noticed you speak in the past tense about many of the techniques and materials used from different cultures. However many of these cultures still survive today and continue their arts, like you mentioned with the Hopi yellow-ware. I’m not sure if this is something you script intentionally or not but I thought it would be worthwhile to bring to your attention. It’s important for us to remember that this ancient knowledge is present not only in historical references but also carried out presently by the people who inherit its culture.
Thanks again for sharing what you know, I invite conversation on this, hope to hear your thoughts.
I am focused on recreating the pottery from lost cultures. Cultures that no-one is even sure who their descendants are today. In those cases it is past tense because when they moved away they abandoned their old ways of making pottery.
Thanks for the reply @AncientPottery
It’s good to hear that it is intentional and I appreciate the greater context. Fascinating that we have such lost pottery to consider - thanks for sharing the knowledge you’ve learned and explored
Best of luck
You can find manganese dioxide (and zinc metal!) in regular alkaline batteries if you're up for the challenge of opening them up! Will try that soon
Sounds dangerous
@@AncientPottery Yeah it was probably not a great idea to write it! The insides are pretty alkaline (no way!) and can give lye burns.
Nice video, Andy
Glad you enjoyed it
Hope you're okay, Andy, with all this crazy weather activity. Awesome video, as always!
Thanks, I’ve been holed up at home for over a month enjoying my air conditioning. I’ll bet you’re getting sone rain today
@@AncientPottery not bad, mostly it's staying east of us. It rained sideways for a little while yesterday LOL but today it's just kind of a constant slow drip.
Andy, a viewer sent me some wild black clay, I'm wondering what colour it will fire to? I expect it could be anything, grey, brown, red, do you have any ideas? Cheers, Andy
The black is probably organic matter that will burn away in the fire. So your guess is as good as mine.
@@AncientPottery Interesting, I hope to find out next week, thanks for the reply, cheers
I have black clay in my part of Illinois. It fires with uneven coloration ranging between off pink cream to brown and salmon pink
@@Jormungandr633 That's interesting, I'm near Boston (UK) and I suppose there only one way to find out, cheers
I ran across a CZcamsr that calls himself New Mexico Ruins. He goes to different ruins in the New Mexico area and shows people what he finds. He shows a lot of pot shards that have patterns and paint different from what I've seen you replicate. The one that grabbed my attention was a bluish color. I went o line to find out who made blue pottery. What I found was delft was the first notable blue. When I tried to find who may have traded blue I wondered if the Mayan blue clay could have ever been traded. I learned that it is a fel spare clay that is found close to simiktite clay. It is called phyllosilicate clay. Have you heard of any such thing? Do you think it could be a painted on slip?
Blue is not possible with primitive techniques and natural products. The first blue paint on pottery in the southwest was pots brought here by the Spanish. Nowadays some Pueblo potters use commercial underglaze paints to get blue designs. Mayan Blue is an organic pigment so if it was used on pottery it was applied after firing, this stuff would never have been traded this far north.
@AncientPottery Ty. That is what I thought, but the pictures I saw looked very blue. It must have been the camera used and the fact that it was on tv. Then the fact I could not find any material in that area that produce any shade of a lot.
I enjoy your show. I doubt I shall ever do the primitive style clay work. But you have taught me alot.
Can glaze be used with the non kiln methods?
You left out orange. Which the majority of my local clays seem to fire. 😂
A lot of orange pottery is often just called “red ware”. But yes, that is a fairly common color.
Andy, in my state there is a pretty significant green strip of clay across the center, intersecting with my property. I am willing to experiment with it on my own, but I was wondering if you happen to know if green clay will make green pottery? I can't find many sources, and the Lenape don't have many surviving examples to peruse.
I harvested some local clay that is an olive yellow when wet. Just made my first bowl with it. I'm very curious to see what color it fires to but mostly just hope it doesn't blow up
Interesting.
Yellow oxides are usually iron. Greens are usually copper. Your firing atmosphere will probably have some effect of what color it fires
Hi Andy, The black manganese dioxide paint I used on two of my pots came out brown because of a lack of oxygen during firing. Can I refire those in a more oxygenated atmosphere to get them to turn black or is it too late for them?😅
Yes, re-fire until you get it right
question: can i use IRON BACTERIA in pottery? thank you, greetings from Slovakia
I know nothing about "iron bacteria"
@@AncientPottery its red clay, try youtube for fount it
Are Manganese and Copper not toxic?
Yes but don't eat them
...ground rust?
Yeah. Rust is basically the same thing as the other red minerals because they’re all just iron oxide. You will want to thicken it with something though. I use egg yolk and 33% clay. I also press it into the pot for redundancy
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