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Daily Hand Holding: Throwing and Altering to Create Comfy Cups

Madeleine Boucher’s always begins her forms by thinking about the hands—not just her hands when throwing and altering, but also a user's hands and how they might handle a functional pot. So she loves to experiment with altering wheel-thrown forms to create a more organic shape and aesthetic.

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Daily Using a Projector to Transfer Images on Clay

I have heard lots of tips and tricks for transferring an image to a piece of pottery—from tracing through plastic to specialized Graffito paper that acts like a carbon copy.

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How to Make a Cheeseboard with Abstract Decorations

Cheese, glorious cheese! I am always a big fan of celebrating cheese in any way possible. So I thought I would share a great project, excerpted from The Beginner's Guide to Decorating Pottery, that will help you present cheese in the dignified way it deserves.

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Daily How to Make a Wheel-Thrown, Scalloped-Handled Bowl

The pottery wheel is great for making round, regular shapes, but things get really fun when those shapes are altered! Today, I thought I would share a cool throwing and altering project from the September/October 2023 issue of Pottery Making Illustrated.

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