Pottery Making Illustrated Articles (Simple)

Having a well-stocked glaze pantry is important when mixing glazes from scratch or when adding materials to a commercial glaze recipe or jar. Much like a kitchen pantry, there are staples for a great glaze pantry.

My carved vases developed from a desire to make work employing repetitive textures that capture the character of the ash glazes I use, providing edges for the glaze to break and run, creating a naturally variable surface.

As has always been the case, people have things that other people want, and sometimes those things are not things, they are spaces.

Most of my sculptures are loaded into the kiln when they are leather hard, before they are completely dry. At this stage, the clay is strong and not yet brittle, so it is an ideal time to move the piece.

This issue is devoted to all things tools and the ingenuity on the following pages is strong—how to make them, how to use them, and where to source them.

I love creating practical, functional pieces that fill a need I find in the home and that work well with surface design.

As an observer of nature, I pay attention to how things look and how they make me feel. These experiences guide me when I am starting a piece.

In addition to the templates found in articles by Margaret Kinkeade, Corinne Lent, and Sunshine Cobb, the above templates can be scaled-up on a copy machine to fit any dimensions you prefer for handbuilding functional vessels.

The objects that we surround ourselves with might say more about us than we have ever imagined.