A Quick Explanation and Demo of Mishama! Day 28 Quarantine Distraction Video

[@sudafey9336]

Thank you for this video. I was searching for how to make stuffed clear lines on clay. Showing it by comparing the materials, is other informing point. Thanks a lot.

[@y0nd3r]

I haven't had clay classes in a few years. So glad to see you are still doing videos. You really deserve a larger audience. Thanks for everything!

[@SallyRoperPottery]

Suggestion. Wax the form before you carve. the slip and/or underglaze will be drawn into the design and then surface will wipe away easily. Thanks for your videos, I enjoy them very much.

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

What a great idea!!!! Thank you!!!!

[@brickhouse7401]

Great tutorial, as always. Clear and thorough. Much appreciated during this pandemic. Thank you!

[@JohnLowes]

That’s mishima. It probably doesn’t matter since it’s an English adaptation of a Japanese word. Nice work you do. I fell in love with the technique as practiced by Lorna Meaden and am waiting to see my technique when my soda firing class unloads the kiln this Friday 3/2/21.

[@lisarcreagh9879]

Are you posting from Mason, Michigan? I'm from Lansing. Thank you for your great tutorials.

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

Hi Lisa- no, I am in Mason, Ohio! Down between Cincinnati and Dayton!! But hey, we're still neighbors!!! :)

[@debsamuels5367]

Was painting and cleaning off done on leather hard or bone dry?

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

The forms were carved than painted in leatherhard- and a little beyond. The cleaning was done more dry than leatherhard- but before bone dry..

[@renaebettenhausen3611]

Your voice sounds better. YAY

[@beverlyhodges9679]

Are you carving on green ware?

[@CeeJayKay]

I am going to try this on my leather hard piece and want to know if I can also use color underglaze to color in other areas of the design with a little brush after I clean off the first black underglaze.

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

Yes! Now, depending on your type of clay and the cone to which you fire it, some underglazes will or will not work! So check your bottle of underglaze to see how hot you can fire it!

[@CeeJayKay]

@@KaransPotsAndGlass Thank you for your helpful reply! I am using a cone 05 clay and Duncan Cover Coat underglaze. And then it will be fired at 05.

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

Perfect!

[@janettewilson5368]

Loving all of your quarantined videos you are an amazing teacher! Your student are very lucky 🍀 to have you! Can you tell me what and where you get your sponges?

[@joymartin4608]

if you were to go back and add anothercoat of underglaze would it smooth out the texture?

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

II don’t think with that- I put on about 5 coats!

[@vanimedeot7965]

💜💜💜GRACIAS!!! BELLO!!!

[@lindagarofalo2830]

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[@fawnruch8962]

I would love to hear your take on why to use a sponge verses a paint brush depending on what clay body one is using. I try to explain grog to my students but I think sometimes I am talking over their heads, lol.

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

Hi Fawn- I can explain further in videos... but the short answer is- grogged clay should have minimal if any sponging. When you sponge grogged clay, you remove the tiny particles, leaving behind the gritty surface of the grog, (Which can be compressed back down with a little soft rib) I tell my students to only use a sponge on NON-GROGGED clay- as that will still leave a smooth surface, In lieu of the sponge, a wet paint brush (stiff bristled) can do a nice job of clean up with grogged clay. Does that help?

[@fawnruch8962]

KaransPotsAndGlass Thats what’s I tell them. I just wondered if you had a metaphor or something that explains it in a way that they could connect it to in a visual way.

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

Lol- great thinking- I often do- but not this time! ;)

[@cidk59]

I save all my shavings after I finish with this process, and use them when I make more black slip.

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

Great idea!!

[@maggiecarpenter4281]

There is an easier way of doing this. You wax your whole piece and then carve the piece, then apply your underglaze let dry and then wipe it off. Fire and you have perfect lines. I can't take credit for this I found it on Clayshare by Jessica Putnam-Phillips.

[@KaransPotsAndGlass]

Thanks, Maggie! It's been years since I did this technique, and I forgot about this step! Thanks!! :)