Attention teachers! Please join us Saturday October 23, 2021 from 10am to 12pm for an interactive demonstration webinar geared toward K-12 art teachers! Ceramic artist and high school art teacher Julie Woodrow will help you develop a lesson plan from concept to reality. Plus, it's conveniently scheduled on a Saturday so it doesn't interfere with your teaching schedules!

Plaster and ceramics go hand in hand and it is what many potters use for a hump mold. Some potters prefer to keep plaster out of their studios and would opt for a bisque mold. But potter Lauren Sandler has been making hump molds for her work out of unfired clay.

When I was just starting out in ceramics, I thought that getting a disappointing pot out of the kiln was just something a potter had to live with. It never occurred to me that I could try putting it back in the kiln, so my mind was blown a few years later when I learned that refiring pottery was an option. And I have saved more than a few lackluster pots since then.

Ceramic water etching is a pretty darn fun technique, but I had only heard of doing it with stinky shellac or wax resist. In today’s post, Deanna Ranlett tells us about Amy Roberson’s technique of using ModPodge® as a resist for water etching. It’s such a great alternative to shellac because there are no toxic fumes, plus it doesn’t ruin brushes like wax resist!