Pottery Making Illustrated Articles (Simple)

Getting off to a good start is always the best plan. Here’s an in-depth look at some best practices for centering clay before throwing.

Summer is here and the bees are hard at work making honey. The least we can do is make them a beautiful pot to put it in.

Just because you can’t always see the bottoms of your pots is no reason to not decorate them. Learn to combine your inspirations and create fully unique surfaces.

Altering a simple bowl with a few precise cuts can lead to an infinite number of new forms.

Try this sgraffito technique with a combination of porcelain and terra sigillata to discover a crisp graphic quality with your drawings.

Whether you’re working with homemade or commercial glazes, altering a base glaze to discover new color palettes can be easy and fun.

Recently, I’ve been thinking about the basic skills that are handed down from generation to generation and I wonder if our domestic skills are getting lost as we become a more consumer-based and servi

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There are so many ways to brew and enjoy coffee. The things I love about making pourover coffee include the rich, bright, and complex flavors, the lush and lively aromas, the deliberate quality of slo

When handbuilding covered jars, it can be difficult to make a lid that fits well. Over the years I’ve devised a few ways to make handbuilt lids with flanges that fit snugly into the opening of an oval

Many Japanese pottery tools are highly specialized and sometimes look a bit different from the ones in the US. When you’re throwing off the hump, it’s not easy to cut the bottom of the finished piece

I make pots that bring together a range of influences, while the surface textures and colors I use to decorate my pots are largely influenced from the landscape of South-central Alaska where I grew up

Incising patterns based on favorite plaids provides both depth and personality to these plates.

I know many artists who have discovered how to make an object, and they make it, or a version of it, extraordinarily well. Through trial and error, with prototypes, testing materials, experimenting wi

In 2010, I participated in the 12-week residency exchange program at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan through Baltimore Clayworks. During the time I spent there and the short visit to

Begin by throwing an 8-inch tall, bottomless cylinder. There’s no need for a foot since this cylinder will be shaped into an oval. Open up the clay into a ring with a 4-inch interior diameter. Then ra