Piece of Cake: How to Decorate Your Pots Like a Pastry Chef
Slip trailing is a great way to add decoration to pots. Most ceramic artists use a fairly liquid slip when … Read More
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Slip Trailing for Beginners: A Primer on a Great Ceramics Decorating Technique
Slip trailing is a great way to use clay slip as a decorative tool. Like its cousin glaze trailing, slip … Read More
Adding Dimension to Stenciled Imagery on Pottery
Stenciling is a great decorative technique for pottery. A traditional method for applying stencils is to cut or tear paper … Read More
Wax Resist Over Glaze: A Simple Pottery Decorating Technique
I think we’ve all heard it said that the simplest solution is the best. And while I always make it … Read More
Great Tips for Painting Bisque Fired Clay with Underglaze
Painting with underglaze on pottery can be done either during the greenware phase, or the bisque phase. Nikki Mizak chooses to … Read More
A Monument to Table Salt
While thinking about elemental necessities, in terms of both nutrients in food and the emotional need for art, Marty Fielding … Read More
Quick Tip: Extend Your Reach
After doing some touch-up painting in my kitchen, I realized that the mini paint roller I had been using would … Read More
Modifying Commercial Underglazes to Create Custom Surfaces
Potters today are so fortunate to have a huge range of colors premixed and at their disposal in the form … Read More
Three Potters Share Their Best Sgraffito Tips, Plus a Bonus Video!
Sgraffito can be an impactful, dramatic way of decorating pots (like in Kathy King’s shown here) or a more subtle … Read More
Take a Sneak Peek at the November/December 2020 issue of Pottery Making Illustrated!
This issue is all about functional tableware—serving both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. Dandee Pattee writes about fellow potter Mandy Henebry’s … Read More
