Ceramic Stains: The Easy Way to Create All the Colors of the Rainbow on Your Pottery
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
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In glaze chemistry, the fluxes or melting agents that are combined with acids (glass-formers) and neutrals (refractories). Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Makin’ Bacon…Cups!
I’ve always loved bacon, but never anticipated incorporating the idea of bacon into my work until after visiting the Texas … Read More
How to Throw an Oblong, Asymmetrical Bowl on the Potters Wheel
Throwing bottomless pots and adding slab bases is a great way to play around with shapes other than round—without a … Read More
A Super Simple Analogy to Help You Understand Glaze Structure
Understanding glaze structure isn’t hard. Ceramic glazes consist of three main components: glass formers, fluxes, and refractories. If you can … Read More
Balance and Comfort
After all these years making pottery, mugs are still my favorite things to create. Like small sculptural exercises, they offer … Read More
Hare’s Fur and Oil Spot Glazes
Oil spot and hare’s fur glazes are beautiful and fascinating. In a nutshell, they are high-iron glazes that are applied … Read More
The Beautiful Variations of Chun Glaze
Glazes in the Chun glaze family are lovely light blue high fire glazes that feature opalescence caused by micro bubbles … Read More
Using Rare Earth Oxides as Ceramic Colorants to Obtain Intense Colors
Ceramic stains make it possible to create glazes that fire to just about any color of the rainbow. But one … Read More
The Low Down on Ceramic Pigments and Stains
Ceramic pigments, often referred to as ceramic stains, have vastly opened up the color possibilities for potters. And as we … Read More
Decorating with Nerikomi Colored Clay Patterns
If you’re bored with glazing, working with colored clay is a fun way to get color and pattern onto your … Read More
