Pottery Making Illustrated Articles (Simple)

I’ll never forget coming home from an outing to find the butter dish left out on the table with the lid off! The crisp rectangle of butter had been licked into a soft, shallow mound by my cat. Memorie

This process requires you to consider color first, rather than last, as there’s no glaze on the outside of the piece—all the tones come from the clay body. In my work, I’m interested in using two cont

My work is a lot about surface decoration. And a well-crafted canvas to put the pattern on is essential to my creativity. There is something extraordinary with the three dimensions of a pot; the insid

Pottery Illustrated drawn Mid-Century Modern Patterns. Drawn by Robin Ouellette.

A multitude of colors can easily be produced by adding colorants to base terra sigillatas. The common practice of creating a glaze line blend applies to terra sigillata as well, but with modifications

When I first began throwing pots I gravitated to throwing bowls. One of the challenges I faced was how to make the rim more interesting without sacrificing the bowl’s essential function. After much ex

I was commissioned to create a large house number plaque for a residence in a dark wooded area. The numbers needed to be reflective for easy detection at night as well as high contrast for the daytime

I loved everything about clay and glaze calculation class; discovering how a material’s individual properties can change a glaze.