While technically true about pottery, most potters rely on commercially available glazes and clays which are made to have specific, reproducible results, based on proprietary recipes from ingredients sourced all over the world. Some of these ingredients may come from only one mine on the planet, and there have recently been several upheavals in the pottery community as these mines close or are no longer willing to sell to ceramic supply companies.

Many artists do still explore wild clay and glaze making, but it doesnโ€™t seem the majority to me. Itโ€™s on my list of things to learn and do.

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thanks for the insight ๐Ÿ™‚

I hope you get a chance to try wild clay and show it off here!

Itโ€™s something Iโ€™m almost certainly going to have to have my own studio in order to do, since experimenting like this is not really something you do in a community kiln. So it could be a long time in comingโ€ฆ but Iโ€™m looking forward to it ๐Ÿ˜

I saw a dude fire ceramics in a fire pit on his driveway ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

Probably raku! I love the metallic looks they get ๐Ÿ˜