In the Studio: Coloring Before the Lines
I love decorating pots with floral patterns outlined in sharp black line art. I used to spend hours unclogging trailing … Read More
I love decorating pots with floral patterns outlined in sharp black line art. I used to spend hours unclogging trailing … Read More
When looking at Liz Pechacek’s work, one might think the decoration is made using the sgraffito technique. But Liz actually … Read More
Carving pottery can add not only a pleasing design on a pot, but it can also be tactilely pleasing. Users … Read More
This technique involves using templates to repeatedly create an even, symmetrical form. In the coil-building exercise, you position the template … Read More
I saw Virginia Cartwright demonstrating at a Potters Council (now the International Ceramic Artists Network–ICAN) workshop a couple years back … Read More
Ribs are essential tools to any potter and they come in all shapes and sizes. But sometimes, you can’t find … Read More
Mixing clay is generally not done by most studio potters. Instead, most of us buy premixed pottery clay neatly pugged and … Read More
Slip trailing is a great way to use clay slip as a decorative tool. Like its cousin glaze trailing, slip … Read More
David Ogle became frustrated when the throwing sticks he bought were too unwieldy for making the narrow necked forms he … Read More
What’s an olla watering system, you wonder? It is an unglazed porous bottle form that is buried in the garden … Read More