Once bisque fired the cylinder can be glazed, painted, smoked, or some combination of all three depending upon what kind of color or surface texture you are trying to create. Larry never does anything fastidiously; his approach/taste is more grungy & primal.
Here he smokes a cylinder which has already been glazed with a clear crackle finish. He’s masked some areas of the surface with bits of colored duct tape, placed it a chicken wire basket (to insure space for the smoke to circulate between the cylinder and flammables), and put it inside of a metal garbage can packed with pine needles, wood chips, and newspaper.
This next step is VERY important.......at this point he stops everything to put his assistants in their pen because they like to help.......... a lot.
With the girls safely out of the way he used a propane torch to light the materials through several small holes punctured near the base of the can, put a lid on it, and let it smolder for a couple of hours.
Smoking is inherently unpredictable but the hope is that when he takes it out of the garbage can he’ll like what he sees and it’ll be done.
In this case the original intent was to remove the masking but he chose to leave them as part of the finished surface instead.
That’s it..............the only thing left to do is let the geese out!
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