Tips for Making and Attaching Handles to Mugs
Making and attaching handles to mugs can be very challenging, especially if you are attaching the handles when they are … Read More
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The Nature of Carving
Both functional and decorative, my carved porcelain pots are created to be joyful, tactile containers for nature’s beauty. I am … Read More
How to Use Additive Sculpture Techniques on a Wheel Thrown Cup
Subtractive and additive sculpture techniques are great ways to create depth in ceramic surfaces. As the names imply, additive sculpture … Read More
Polymer Clay Stamps for Applying Texture
I saw Virginia Cartwright demonstrating at a Potters Council (now the International Ceramic Artists Network–ICAN) workshop a couple years back … Read More
A Couple of Cool Clay Sculpture Techniques
There are a multitude of clay sculpture techniques for ceramic artists to choose from. The possibility for expression is unlimited … Read More
How to Make Three Cool Handbuilt Handles with Coils and Slabs
Handles can be the bane of a potter’s existence—at least they are for me a lot of the time (including … Read More
How to Make a Textured Bisque Mold that Mimics a Thrown Piece
There are lots of ways to make clay molds. And I love that I keep discovering new variations on these … Read More
Bowl Making Turned Upside-Down
Throwing large bowls has been something that has dogged me for quite some time. There’s a certain size bowl that … Read More
How to Make a Surprisingly Durable Hump Mold out of Unfired Clay
Plaster and ceramics go hand in hand and it is what many potters use for a hump mold. Some potters … Read More
Less is More: Using Simple Pottery Forms as a Canvas for Playful Underglaze and Majolica Decoration
Courtney Murphy deftly combines two somewhat disparate influences in her work: simple, well-designed industrial objects, and folk art and children’s … Read More
