How to make COLORFUL grog!

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It's speckles month week one!!! In this video I will teach you how to make grog for your pottery projects. Mixing in grog is just one way to add speckles to clay, so make sure you catch the whole series!
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[@BookishLovely]

It would be really awesome to make grog in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet and throw rainbow speckled "funfetti" cups!

[@hannahbrooks4615]

exactly what i was thinking!!

[@PotterytothePeople]

i love it!!

[@doninis1354]

There is a glase call3d "confetti" it has like glas peaces in it and makes beautiful, colorful glase.

[@deniseseesfleece]

Fully ready to adopt Speckles Month in my life now, thank you for giving me a gift I didn't know I needed

[@PotterytothePeople]

✨speckles month✨

[@mirjamfaberceramics]

This is amazing! My plan for next year is to play with mixing and colouring clays to create my own staples, as well as getting into making glazes. This series is exactly what I needed! An "easy" entry into a new area of ceramics.

[@PotterytothePeople]

lovely! Yes this is something thats so endlessly fascinating to me ☺️

[@studiosherlen]

Thank you so much for sharing! I've always thought that those speckles are from glaze, didn't know that it's this easy to create 🎉

[@bethjohnsonceramics1]

Thank you for demystifying grog! This looks like a great thing to try which I would never have thought of!

[@PotterytothePeople]

you’re welcome! its very fun :)

[@alilaforce7233]

Speckles month is a great theme. I’m excited to see what else you creat 😊

[@____Ann____]

Love those sieves! They are just perfect for a project like this. They don't take up too much space.

[@heathersavage8809]

So cool! I’ve always wondered about the specks! It’ll be fun to watch and learn

[@ryderhook]

Ok, as a German, when I thought of grog, because it's almost Christmas, I thought of mulled wine or hot rum. Was a bit confused.

[@PotterytothePeople]

hahaha isn’t it called Glühwein? 🍷 or is that something different?

[@TarotLadyLissa]

I love this! Also, your new haircut is fabulous!!!

[@PotterytothePeople]

hehe thank you :)

[@herculade]

This may be my favorite video series so far!!! Thanks for sharing! I love the speckled look!

[@PotterytothePeople]

thank you!! im so glad you like it :)

[@ivrifamily7813]

You're just the best! Thank you for your amazing teaching ❤️

[@PotterytothePeople]

you’re so welcome! ❤️

[@RedEftDesigns]

Yay speckles month! You are definitely inspiring me with this colored grog i never thought about it for the clay body before, only for glaze. I love making glaze speckles🎉

[@GreenDayFanMT]

Excited for the glaze video.

[@PotterytothePeople]

its gonna be a good one! 🙌

[@emkrey]

Curious question: could the grog be used without firing first?

[@aminaa5824]

No, it will just end up becoming wet clay again and grog is needed in the mix

[@lovinglibbie7418]

Thanks!

[@PotterytothePeople]

wow! thank you! ❤️

[@Professo_Saskia]

love the idea! i’m really into speckles. looking forward to the next videos as well 🤘🏻

[@PotterytothePeople]

yuhu! theyre gonna be goood :)

[@micheledickey4066]

This is awesome!!

[@PotterytothePeople]

thank you!

[@KatiusciaBayslak]

Me again! I have another question with DIY speckles... In your opinion if you try to glaze some parts of your speckled vessells (not clear glaze) will be speckles visible trough colored glaze?

[@blabla1260]

Thank you for this speckles month! Do you think bisqued earthenware would do for the grog? Or would it melt anyway at 1240C?

[@DCarey-g6y]

Love this!!!!

[@prairietn1]

Great video!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@PotterytothePeople]

you’re welcome! 🥰

[@patelbi]

Ohh nice! I never knew thats what its called or that it was a separate element, thought its all achieved (the speckled effect) thru glazing alone 😅

[@PotterytothePeople]

yep! you can mix all kinds of stuff into your clay :)

[@robot7759]

Hi! How do you know what size of grog you want? 😶 How do you know how much grog you want? 😶 Would grog be useful for air dry clay? (If you have any experience with the material).

[@PotterytothePeople]

I am not sure about air dry clay! I mentioned the grog sizes in the video & in terms of amount, I didn’t measure 😅 you’ll just have to experiment yourself!

[@robot7759]

@@PotterytothePeople Okay, thank you anyway. Will experiment 😉

[@fionasarazin8772]

As a freckly person, speckles month makes me feel seen lol

[@PotterytothePeople]

😄 i am totally jealous of your skin speckles!

[@lepi_maria]

Hello! Nice video ❤ as always very informative. Wanted to ask..can I make grog from the bisque firing items? I mean like cups that was destroyed in kiln can be used as grog also? 😅

[@PotterytothePeople]

for sure! you just need to smash them :)

[@lepi_maria]

@@PotterytothePeoplethank you so much!) this speckles month is awesome 🎉

[@oneofeverything9820]

Love this 😍😍😍

[@PotterytothePeople]

❤️❤️

[@mbf211]

I love this idea! Isn't it hard on the hands to throw with that size of grog in it?

[@PotterytothePeople]

its a little hard in the beginning, but your hands get calluses eventually :)

[@zairamoon1]

for how much time did you put it in the kiln?

[@krissysandvigen3676]

Do you always bisque to cone 010?

[@KatiusciaBayslak]

Beautiful series! My first experience at wheel is whit a clay wirh grog and at the end of the day I had my hands burned and scratched... How do you prevent this with grog on the wheel?

[@PotterytothePeople]

yes unfortunately you need to built up a callous on your hands! It comes pretty quickly though :)

[@colormeinfluenced6997]

I’m not a potter so until I watched this video I thought of Grog as either a beverage or that hairy caveman cartoon character in the comic strip “B.C.”

[@drakeface]

Wait, why cone 7? Is that a common firing temperature where you live?

[@PotterytothePeople]

yep! we go by degrees so 1240-1250C for stoneware is quite common :)

[@rw9207]

Did you think to use a pestle and mortar inside a plastic bag?... It seems like that would be a simpler method.

[@PotterytothePeople]

thats sounds like it would work!

[@J0k394]

​@@PotterytothePeopleor even better, pestle and mortar + sieve inside a dust chamber, or whatever a glove box/work box is all called. If you're going to be grinding up more dry materials, might be a contemplation? A samla bin and some rubber gloves and a friend with a 3d printer, or some pvc couplers and a bunch of sillicone.

[@steveguardi]

I want to start pottery! Pick me randomly.

[@jaynedavis3388]

Surely you should include goggles with your dust mask?

[@PotterytothePeople]

well its not *that* dusty 🤷‍♀️

[@unique0987654321]

Can you just make grog from failed bisque pots?

[@NikkiJeanne]

Yes