GIraffe

This giraffe is made from raku clay - a strong clay which is good for modeling as well as being great for raku firings.

His body was made of two pinchpots, and his neck was a series of coils, then his head was another pinch pot. He was then painted with under glaze colours, and from tehn on treated as earthenware despite Raku being Stoneware - firing him at stoneware temperatures would fade the colours. THen he should have been glazed with earthenware glaze and fired as earthenware again, but the tutor had a bad day and gave me the wrong glaze (stoneware), hense his soemwhat milky appearance.











Other side where you can see his tail.