Glaze Recipes and Expert Tips for Great Pottery Glazing Results
In ceramics, finding the perfect glaze for your work is only part of the challenge. If the application is sloppy, it will …
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Artist Q&A: Meet Sue Isherwood
Ceramic Arts Network: Have you changed careers before working with clay? How does your previous career inform your work with …
How to Use a Plaster Press Mold to Make a Cup
Using plaster press molds is a great way to make consistently sized pottery without slip casting or throwing on the …
Going Local: How to Dig and Process Your Own Clay
There is an abundance of clay in my area, and I have occasionally thought about making work out of local …
Making Simple Molds for Slabware
My son starts fourth grade this year (how could that possibly be?!), so the rapid pace at which this summer …
How to Use CMC Gum to Make a Glaze Brushable and Stampable
CMC gum is a ceramic glaze additive that can be used to help improve brushability in glazes that are mixed …
How to Carve Low-Relief Surface Designs into Wet Clay
This post is all about carving into clay and the best tools and techniques for doing so. In this post, an …
An Introduction to Fuel-Burning Kilns
Fuels are organic and carbon based, they burn readily. Until recently, all kilns were fuel burning; even now when we …
Ten Basics of Firing Electric Kilns
Firing is the most critical part of the ceramics process because it is the one thing that makes clay durable, …
The Irresistible Surface: Layering Pottery Glazes and Trapping Carbon to Create Loosely Geometric Repeating Patterns
As we all know, in ceramics, trial and error is an integral part of the learning process – and often …
