This Huge Sheep Effigy Pot Took 9 Days to Make
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The Mimbres sheep pot is a tough one to make, follow along through the whole process.
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0:00 The "Taco Method"
2:33 Coil Building the Form
5:56 Attaching Appendages
8:26 Slipping & Smoothing
12:22 Project Update & Paint Preparation
14:50 Painting Designs
16:09 Firing & Smothering
18:15 Reveal & Discussion
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With the completion of the sheep pot I am almost halfway done with the Ancient Pottery Challenge for this season. Learn about the background of this these pots and the cultures that made them by watching my roadtrip across the Southwest kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4CVz6mmoauviM4.html
@michaelalfaro3220
Жыл бұрын
Gee this makes me want to start something like this in back yard. My sister and are very creative and would love some pointers in getting started.
Wow! This is really good! This is the best pottery video I’ve ever seen. The sheep turned out great!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot Chad! Did you get the book I sent you?
Definitely one of the coolest designs you've done! Nice job!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, it was a challenging project.
@craigwilliams4117
Жыл бұрын
I really don't like to post anything ever, but Andy you are amazing! I loved the goat.
Wonderful replica, Andy, I am amazed you got through that process without it collapsing inward. Your skill level is impressive.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, it's all about having good clay
@angeladazlich7145
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery Figures you'd give the clay the credit lol. We picked up some Sonoita in December, looing forward to working with it again.
Interesting 😊 The ancient potters were so creative.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
They sure were, and they did amazing work in difficult conditions.
It is amazing how the ram became alive the moment you added the horns.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
I noticed the same thing, funny how that works.
Какая красота! Сколько смотрю, столько и удивляюсь и радуюсь! Да, с глиной очень нужно терпение! И все-таки, какое удовольствие, работать с глиной, выглаживать её, доводить до гладкости каждый бочок изделия! Обожаю работу с глиной, душа отдыхает, глаза радуются тому, что получается из волшебного комочка обыкновенной глины! Всем здравия и радости от творческих работ с любимой глиной! С любовью и уважением из СССР, Ростовская область.
"EWE" have done an amazing job and this is the most charming piece ever! What you said about controlled drying is so true! so, so true!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!
Great production, videography and project. I’m looking forward to the Ancient Potters Zoom class tonight
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jeff. Oh that reminds me, I need to let my pitcher dry out today, I better go unwrap it now.
8:05 he's sleeepingg
It turned out so beautiful. Great videography ✨
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
That is amazing! We may just skip out on this one, or make a smaller version, but only because we don't have much more space right now to store something that big!!! LOL! Great work, Sir! Great Pot!!!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Space can be a big issue for a potter. What to do with all the pottery?
I know it wasn’t what you were shooting for, but I actually like the look of both colors. It seems more “real” somehow.❤️🤗🐝
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I like it too, thanks
@deborahdanhauer8525
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery you’re welcome❤️🤗🐝
Super cool!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Holy complication Batman! I had no idea you could do that kind of coil building. Damn! Thanks man for the informative video. The sheep looks awesome!! Nailed it
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Home run with the bases loaded.......what a great video..........
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow, you make it look so easy and we know it's not easy. Beautiful job.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much 😊
I really enjoyed that video and think that your sheep is just great
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you
You have quickly become my favorite KZread Channel. I haven’t even made any pottery yet!!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much
It’s a sheepy masterpiece, Andy!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
So inspiring !!! Beautiful piece 😊
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@aeae7777
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery ThankYOU 😉
Whoa!! That sheep pot turned out darn awesome! Wow! This was a great video.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, will you try one too?
This is amazing , I haven’t even thought about how the ancient’s fired their pottery. Great video great job . Thank you 🙏& blessings your way.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad you liked it.
I quite enjoy the reduced and oxidized paint mixing. Great video as always.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, I like it too.
Beautiful video Andy! You are the best instructor I ever had! I’ll try this little sheep on a smaller scale:) thanks a million💐🙏🏻
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Awesome, thanks, glad you got something out of my video.
Baaaaaaad ass sheep. Impressive build, and a good story well-told. Interesting observation that bowls and jars had different outcomes. Thanks
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Wes, I hope you feel better soon.
Wow! That's such a cool design!!! Thank you for all you do Andy
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome.
Your effigy pot is outstanding 👍🐏
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly
Really enjoying your videos! So informative, inspiring, and well done.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
Thank you again, for sharing. Your videos inspire me to tackle new projects.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Glad to help
I really like the multi colored effect. I wonder if the ancient potters had special shelving to keep their drying pottery on…? Seems like in their tight quarters breakage would have been a problem.😮
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Especially if you had kids around. But they did not have shelves or tables, everything was stored on the floor.
Love it!!! It's beautiful!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
phenomenal work! it turned out beautifully!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Oh I was just watching your video about improving clay this morning but didn't have time to finish it yet. Good work!
Looks awesome!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Great step by step video.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Glad you think so!
What did you do today? "I made a taco out of clay" Uh, ok? That thing is so cute. Well done 💕
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you
Nice job. That was enjoyable.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
I think with the advent of laser thermometers and some of yours and others documenting your primitive firings, archeologist may have to raise the bar a bit on what is considered max primitive temperature reached. Very nice pot Andy !
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
I saw John Olsen get over 1000 C at the 2021 SW Kiln Conference.
great work Andy..and the firing is spot on ..i may build a little lamb if i have the space..
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Cool thanks!
That is so cool!!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
I’m in Love with that sheep 💕
Your form reminds me a little of sand casting. It looked like nice way to make the basic form you wanted for your slab. I wonder if it would be possible to use slip to cast a sand casting hmm. Tangent. Gorgeous effigy. Creative techniques.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. I don't know anything about sand casting.
That sheep is well done. You made it look easy
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you it is all in the video editing.
So cute!!!! Well done 😊
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😊
Thanks!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!
Andy...gracias por compartir tus conocimientos. Abrazos desde la Pampa del Tamarugal. Chile
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
De nada
That is one chonky sheep! ❤️ I like the variegated look of the dye, its mote interesting than asolid color.
It's more like sculpture than pot 😊
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
True, and this sort of technique is used by people who build large sculptural forms, but it's new to me.
So cool!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
I like the the sheep it turned out nice Thanks for video
@AncientPottery
11 ай бұрын
Thanks
Dude you got a good thing going!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Sooooooo beautiful!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
I think, it turned out perfect .
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Love it you are the man,
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
As someone who is a traditional shepard I love this pot!!! Do you ever sell any pots you make ?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Yes I usually sell everything I make on my website at AncientPottery.how but because I am traveling right now all pots are out of stock until I get home.
That's not a bad result. If you want it to stay completely black (without red spots) try using coverd sherds, don't remove the embers and cover it completely with dirt until there is no smoke coming out from the fire and you basically have a dense layer of dirt over the embers that covers it all. Really a beautiful sheep, that's just gorgeous!
Hello Andy. I recently harvested some fine bluish clay from a hill that consists primarily of serpentine and schist. It is so fine it floats in my straining water. Perhaps I'll need to add loads of sand??
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Interesting. I would think that serpentine and schist would provide plenty of temper on their own, but experiment and see what works.
I waiting this video thanks for uploading😇
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Most welcome 😊
wet pieces of cloth work just as well to control drying as plastic bags, you can cut smaller pieces for the apendages, double them, put a dry cloth under the wet ones if you want to avoid them wetting the pot. At the end of the video it's as if you were holding a living creature in your hand!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Good tip, the ancients certainly had access to cloth. Thanks
Such a cute beastie, reminds me of a Cake song.
It’s absolutely beautiful. Would ancients have used leather to keep bits of clay dry? What would the pot have been used for do you think ?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Leather may have worked for that, maybe even damp leather. No idea what you would use this for, the shape would make it hard to pour from.
Turned out great. I noticed you didn't set it on rocks when you fired it. Also, I tried the big flower pot on my last firing and the pot cracked and broke (but my pieces luckily survived). I thought maybe the pot needed to be heated up too, even though it was a fired terra cotta. Did you preheat the cover pot you used?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I wasn't sure how stable it would be with 4 legs on stones so I opted to set it directly on the hot earth which worked out fine. Most flowerpots don't work well because they are not tempered clay so they break from thermal shock in an open fire like this. My flowerpot was an earthenware, tempered flowerpot from Mexico, I could feel the temper in the body so I knew it would hold up.
i’m 14 years old and i find watching your videos so fascinating and i’m not sure why. i was just wondering, could i fire pottery in my indoor log wood stove or would that not work?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
I have heard of people firing pottery in a wood stove but I have no experience with it
Hello Andy beautiful piece there! So my schist/serpentine clay is finer then anything I've seen. Would it be safer to add sand or something to the clay?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
You should always add temper to your clay
That was awesome. I watched the history tour also...I heard the other day that the technocrats are going to charge to film in nat parks so that's disappointing because your video was a terrific education tool and record of history.
@AncientPottery
8 ай бұрын
Yes they already are, some KZreadrs have had huge fines for filming in national parks.
I know this is out of subject but I am new to your channel and to pottery. I am wondering if you have ever used green clay or any other colors? I was out today and found a bunch of really nice green clay and thought I'd give it a try ?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Green clay often will fire to a yellow or orange color
Wow! This is beautiful and impressive! Thank you for sharing this process with us, you make it look so doable 😃. What is the name of the book that you’re using for referencing the art?
@AncientPottery
5 ай бұрын
Thank you, the book is called "Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest" here is an affiliate link amzn.to/48DJxbV
@Nessa2Bea
5 ай бұрын
@@AncientPottery thank you for taking the time to respond 🙌
Valeu!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@awyeagames
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery Keep up the great work! I love your videos!
Can you ever press small, or even tiny rocks or pieces of glass into the clay as decoration?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
That could cause problems, better to add things like that after firing.
super
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
🤩😍🥰 que fabuloso
Hey Andy, love your videos and your willingness to share your trade like you do. I’m curious if it’s possible that the flaking on the slip of the tail might have been caused by not having enough clay added to the slip or perhaps the white and the base clay had different shrinkage rates? I know you had said it had gotten too hot, just wondering if those items I mentioned might have been a cause of this also? Thanks for you generous work and God bless you.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. No the slip is not fugitive in this area so it is not improperly bonded to the vessel. It is cracked deep, it is classic clay that has gotten too hot.
@JoshuaTheLeast
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery thanks for reply, your work looks fantastic Andy! Thanks for sharing.
Wonder how they used the sheep. Seems like stuff would get caught in its nose. Lovely pot!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Agree, it's kind of an impractical shape.
I've been thinking about an idea. if you take a big clay pot. which has not been treated and allows water to pass through as much as possible. if you fill the pot with well-cleaned sand, stones, charcoal and moss. could it work as a water purifier?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
That might work. Something like this? kzread.info/dash/bejne/dXaJxJl6Xca5dps.html
Do you think they might have used a large, clay lined basket? I believe that was used by the Southeastern Mississippian Culture to blacken their pots. They would set the still hot pottery in a pile of vegetative material and then put a clay lined basket over them. This would stop the plant material from catching on fire and not getting an even black coating. I see no reason that doing something similar to smother the fire and keep air away would not have occurred to them.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Interesting idea. Is there evidence that this was actually done in the east? It seems workable if the basket didn't burst into flames because of the heat of the coals.
Do you think adding a flux might make a difference?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
I'm not a proponent of that theory. I don't believe a flux would make any difference in the oxidation or reduction of the paint.
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I like this piece. Watching you with the build process made me wonder - how did the original makers keep it from drying too quickly? Obviously they didn't have plastic. I'm thinking they might have woven some natural fiber cloth? Or did they just use leather (or an animal skin)? (I'm not a potter - though I want to try this; I am a weaver, but of the 21st century.)
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
As far as cloth, they had cotton in the prehistoric southwest so could have used cotton cloth.
@sallyboyd1212
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery There were probably several sources of fiber for cloth: wool, cotton - lots of plants have fibers that can be used for cloth. With the trade they had with South America, there were probably many animal and plant-based fibers available. Thanks for that. I saw your question later in the video, similar to what I asked. To replace "plastic" they might have used animal bladders. I know this was done in Europe. I'm not as up on SW history.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
@@sallyboyd1212 There is an amazing rabbit net at the Arizona State Museum made entirely from human hair!
@sallyboyd1212
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery WOW! That is amazing! I looked it up - 43" wide and 165 feet long!! Thank you so much for sharing! I know this has gone way off topic.
Maybe the ancient potters controlled drying by covering the pottery with leaves, cloth or animal skin
@AncientPottery
3 ай бұрын
Definitely a good possibility
When was this pot made, since they had no sherp pre contact
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Bighorn sheep are native to North America.
@mysticusfreeze
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery wow i had no idea thanks
i envy you Andy,,,,
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Have you ever set any of the dry grass, that's in the background of the firing, on fire?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Heck yeah. I used to work for the Forest Service and got paid to light grass on fire.
@cactusbaboon321
Жыл бұрын
@Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery Had me wondering, albeit starting fires is a different skill set from putting them out, is there archeological evidence of surrounding landscape fires linked by location and time to any ancient ceramic firing sites?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
@@cactusbaboon321 actually fire fighters light a lot of fires. Control burns and burning out fire lines
@cactusbaboon321
Жыл бұрын
@Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery Burning out underbrush establishing a fire line doesn't necessarily apply to starting wild grass fires unless it is used for creating a fire line against the spread of a wild grass fire. I'm glad you are experienced in fireline establishment as it might come in handy someday.
wet sand for drying?
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Hmm, I wonder if you misunderstood something I said.
@sidthemyth
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery answering the question of how the ancients dried the clay before firing. i imagine using some medium that dries more uniformly...
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
@@sidthemyth Oh I see, yeah. That might work, you would want to get the moisture content perfect so as not to rehydrate the clay.
@sidthemyth
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery are there artifacts that might suggest the ancients used salt maybe to pull moisture from clay? thanks for answering
Ok that is one cute sheep.
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
i keep thinking how would this fare as big as a car, so you could sleep in it
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Well there's big and then there's BIG!
@sidthemyth
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery but would you fire it buried? also what would the mixture have to be, something with plant material as well?
@baidarka-guy
Жыл бұрын
Trojan sheep? 😁
14:42 trying to get that 🐐to smell like some KFC❓ 😂
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Those KFC containers are perfect for paints and slips. I have a bunch of them.
@BubuH-cq6km
Жыл бұрын
@@AncientPottery I use em for storage also
So you used a doe trough!
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Well, it is in fact a dough trough, or at least I think that's what it's called. What's so funny about that?
Вот это баран, ну красота!
The Waffle House has found it's new host
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Man oh man, I have seen this comment a few times recently.
You inspire me to take up pottery. 🫶🏽😇🫶🏽
@AncientPottery
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad to help