Join Amy Brummond to learn how to handbuild a colorful, textured berry bowl using slabs. You'll learn how to approach the slab building process utilizing component parts. Amy will cover the importance of timing during the slab building process, and share all her tips for getting the timing right. Additionally, you will learn how to ...

Most potters throw their pots with a little extra clay at the bottom and trim a foot ring into them. But sometimes it can be nice to switch things up. I have seen potters add feet to thrown forms, but I haven't seen anyone do it like Sarah Anderson. In today's post, an excerpt from the October 2022 issue of Ceramics Monthly, Sarah shows us how she pulls feet similar to how one would pull a handle. The result fits her quirky narrative mugs perfectly! 

When Sam Chung stumbled across a book of Korean Cloud motifs, he decided to explore pairing them with traditional Korean pottery forms, and his cloud series was born. In this post, an excerpt from the Ceramics Monthly archive, Sam shares his wheel throwing and altering process, which results in pots that look like they are peering out from behind puffy clouds.

Lisa Katzenstein's twist on the majolica technique is to do a lower temperature firing—a sinter firing—that adheres the glaze to the surface of the pot but does not melt it. This makes it possible for her to use multiple layers of decoration and latex resist without the glaze flaking off. In this post, an excerpt from the September/October issue of Pottery Making Illustrated, Lisa explains her process!