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Originally Posted by lumberjim
what is Raku about it? technique, or end result?
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Kind of technique but mostly result. If you use the straight dye on a really hot brown egg and the dye has an alcohol content as with McCormicks, it fires as in a kiln creating a metallic unpredetermined finish as with Raku pottery. Hence a raku egg.
I hate the camera I have. Should have gotten the one with a better lens. In the photo the purple spot you see at the bottom is a metallic purple. Other lines on the egg had a metallic finish as well. The metallic finishes look just like the effect you get in raku pottery and just as sporadic and unplannable if that is a word!
Well...try it. It's fun. Make sure you use a really hot egg and the straight dye not watered down. The dye I have has a glycol component. I pour it right from the dropper on a hot egg right out of the pot. It looks fairly normal when you pour it at first. But as it dries you begin to see the metallic finishes in different areas. I noticed with that first egg that the more dye was there the more raku-y it got. I'm not sure if you have to use a brown egg or not. The first time I noticed this "mistake" it was with a brown egg, and I have been replicating it that way ever since.
Adult egg fun.
Not for kids. It is too messy with straight dye and the egg is way too hot.
You end up with an egg that has diefferent colors and spots that look like the metallic colors in this photo.
http://www.ayamoconcepts.com/raku_ph...lery/index.htm
I better go do more eggs and hope for a better photo. (edible art is sad but oh so tasty) Mmmm. raku egg.