20 Extruder Tips to Improve Your Extruder Experience
Assemble it correctly. Make sure your extruder is assembled correctly, according to the manufacturer’s instructions. If you bought a used … Read More
Tag: compression
In wheel throwing, the act of hand or finger pressure on the clay, resulting in lower moisture content and a denser structure. Lack of compression in bottoms of pots can result in S-cracks. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
An Introduction to Hanging Ceramic Wall Pieces
If you are interested in taking your ceramic art from the tabletop to the wall, but aren’t quite sure what … Read More
How to Dress up a Wheel Thrown Bowl with Curves
The cereal bowl selection at my house consists mainly of all of my reject bowls from over the years. It’s … Read More
Crazy Beautiful Crazing: Uncovering the Mysteries of Snowflake Crackle Glazes
I have been messing around with crazing as a deliberate decorative effect lately. Though it is technically a glaze defect, … Read More
“It Started Out of a Guilty Pleasure”
Even though Lars Voltz loves the versatility a pitcher offers him as a ceramic maker, he admits he has never … Read More
Quick Tips: Decorating with Foam Supports
Handbuilding with porcelain has a well known problem: it often warps. And when you are doing a lot of beautiful … Read More
Tips and Tools: Foam Support
One of the things that really excited me when I started to work with porcelain was how lightweight my pieces … Read More
How to Make a Recessed Foot with Two Clay Slabs
I was blown away by the way Katrina Chaytor makes a recessed foot on her salt and pepper caddies in … Read More
Delighting the Eye
I gravitated toward handbuilding techniques during undergraduate school, discovering that they were the best choices for the forms I wanted … Read More
Building a Jar
I had the opportunity to help build and decorate a large, traditional jar with French artist Pietro Bruzzi, who is … Read More
