Cone 6 Matte Glaze Recipes and Glazing Techniques
I looooove a good old buttery matte glaze surface! Donna Polseno creates beautiful buttery matte surfaces with a lot of … Read More
Widely occurring aluminum silicate mineral resulting from natural decomposition of feldspar and granite. Composed of microscopic disk-shaped platelates that give clay its slippery, plastic quality. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
I looooove a good old buttery matte glaze surface! Donna Polseno creates beautiful buttery matte surfaces with a lot of … Read More
Slip casting ceramics is a forming technique that has endless potential. Andrew Gilliatt adds a whole new level of fun … Read More
The clay drying process is one of the most crucial parts of the ceramic process to get right. Not paying … Read More
We get a lot of questions from readers about the raku firing process. I think raku firing intrigues many a … Read More
Most potters don’t give much thought to kiln wash and just use the recipe they used when they first learned … Read More
Rolling stamps are a really fun way to add texture to a piece. There are lots of commercial decorating wheels … Read More
Pitchers are a challenging form because they are designed to hold a lot of liquid and, therefore, the vessel itself … Read More
Feldspars are important ingredients in clay bodies and glazes. In both applications, their primary function is to supply fluxes to … Read More
In ceramics there are many things that you have to practice over and over before things click. Wedging is one … Read More
Handles are something I struggled with for a long time. Once I started to get my handles the way I … Read More