Online Extra: The New World of Crystalline Glazes
Crystalline glazes are seductive and instantly capture the eye. How exhilarating to create a glaze that suggests floating galaxies, frosty … Read More
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Subscriber Extra: Precision Carving Tool
Making the Tool
In my travels through Korea, I’ve discovered some traditional Korean carving tools that are well suited to my … Read More
An Introduction to Color
Whether you’re working with homemade or commercial glazes, altering a base glaze to discover new color palettes can be easy … Read More
Clay as a Second Career: An Artist Shares How She Found Her Way to Pottery
Despite the fact that our passion for clay runs deep, we were probably not born knowing we wanted to be … Read More
Birdie Boone’s Belly-Bottomed Dishes
I first saw (and held) Birdie Boone’s belly-bottomed pots at an NCECA exhibition a couple of years ago, and I … Read More
Beyond the Rainbow: The Colorful World of Commercial Underglazes
Over the past several years, underglazes have become my absolute favorite decorating tool. The sky is the limit when it … Read More
Patience, Patience: Using Slips and Stains to Add Detailed Decoration to Bone Dry Ceramic Sculpture
Ceramic artist Scott Ziegler has a lot of patience. He needs it to create his highly detailed ceramic sculpture. Influenced … Read More
Carving with Care: Tips for Incising and Glazing Pottery
I am a big fan of old buildings. I love the architectural details that are so often left out in … Read More
Wax and Water
Austin, Texas, potter Ryan McKerley was once offered a job as a studio manager at an arts center. He thought … Read More
Caffeinated Texture
Is your work needing a little energy boost? Is it feeling a little sleepy these days? Maybe it needs a … Read More
