Raku little hedgehogs. The Raku firing makes each bear unique and I am never sure exactly how they are going to come out. I build each hedgehog by hand with a white clay, which is quite gritty to survive the thermal shocks of the raku firing processes. I use several tools to make the spikes so that they become random with different thickness. I biscuit fire my work first in an electric kiln, then glaze the piece with a transparent glaze for the white parts. I then fire them in the raku kiln…
