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Daily Monoprinting on Clay Webinar with Lakyn Bowman

In this workshop, Lakyn Bowman will show you the ins and outs of monoprinting on clay to create timeless, aged, and weathered surfaces! Monoprinting involves drawing imagery onto newsprint using underglazes and colored slip, then transferring the designs to your leather-hard surfaces. Lakyn will cover everything from the materials needed, to the order to apply your colors, to getting the timing just right. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced potter, this workshop is the perfect opportunity to learn new skills and expand your creative horizons!

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Daily How One Artist Made a Small Space Work for her Pottery Business

I am constantly trying to reconfigure my small home pottery studio (actually minuscule might be the more accurate word!) to be more user-friendly. It's coming along, but I am always looking for new ideas to make it work better. So I loved Laura Casas' Studio Visit article in the March 2023 issue of Ceramics Monthly.

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Daily How to Glaze Pottery with Neodymium Magnets

Since glazing is the least enjoyable part of the ceramic process for me, I am always happy to hear new tips on glazing pottery. And I thought this tip from Madeleine Coomey (one of the wonderful moderators of the Ceramic Arts Network Community Forum) was particularly brilliant!

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Daily How to Make a Lovely Handbuilt Pitcher

Lately, I have been working with slab building forms with texture created using a Cricut cutter (a skill I picked up from the wonderful Jeremy Randall's video on the subject). Mostly I have been doing small-scale forms like mugs, but Margaret Kinkeade's article in the March/April 2023 issue of Pottery Making Illustrated, made me want to try out a pitcher.

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Daily How to Use Additive Sculpture Techniques on a Wheel-Thrown Cup

Subtractive and additive sculpture techniques are great ways to create depth in ceramic surfaces. As the names imply, additive sculpture techniques involve adding material to a surface and subtractive techniques involve the opposite.

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