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Daily Register Now: Workshop from Home with Kirsty Kash

Join Kirsty in her home studio for a 2-hour webinar in which she will demonstrate how to activate pottery surfaces with carving and vibrant inlaid underglaze. Over the course of this workshop, Kirsty will show us how she throws, carves, inlays and glazes a tumbler. Gain invaluable insights as she delves into her preferred tools and materials, and shares the lessons acquired from years of developing her method.

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Daily How to Set Yourself Up for Successful Clay Carving

Carving clay is a great way to create pots that are both pleasing visually and to the touch. But you have to plan some things out if you want to be successful with this type of decoration.

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Daily Using Glaze Additives to Make Average Glazes Great

Sometimes the glazes we use are good for one purpose, but not so good for another. A glaze might perform well when dipping or pouring, but dry so quickly when brushed that it's nearly impossible to get an even coat. Ceramic glaze additives are the secret ingredients that can help remedy these problems.

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Daily How to Make Pinch Pots Without Ruining Your Wrists!

Pinch pots are undergoing a bit of a renaissance these days. Even though pinching pots is an ancient technique, more and more ceramic artists are taking up pinch pots. I see beautiful pinch pots everywhere these days. But the repetitive act of pinching clay can be pretty hard on the wrists. This is why Didem Mert approaches pinch pots a little differently than the typical pinch pot technique, in which one starts by sticking a thumb in a clay ball and slowly pinching out the walls until they are the right thickness.

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Daily How to Print on Clay Using a Photocopied Pattern

When I first started learning about image transfer on clay a few years back, I knew I found something I could keep playing with for years and years. The great thing is, there are seemingly endless ways of doing ceramic transfer printing.

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