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
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
The Pounding Pad: An Energy-Saving Clay Tool
Because the process of working with clay is so enjoyable to us, it’s easy to forget that this material we … Read More
Persnickety Porcelain Clay: How to Minimize Your Loss Rate
Porcelain clay is a clay body that draws in many a potter because of its bright white color, translucency, and … Read More
Techno File: Cristobalite
Cristobalite can cause disastrous results in firings, so using a clay body in which it forms isn’t recommended unless one … Read More
Soft Transitions
I’m captivated by the processes and experiences that are associated with ceramics. The material can exhibit vitality, spontaneity, and tension, … 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
Porcelain for Beginners—8 Tips for Getting Off to a Good Start with Porcelain
Switching to a porcelain clay body may seem like an easy enough thing to do, but if you’ve ever worked … 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
Drafting a Teapot
The pots I make are an exploration of how sculptural form, function, and simplicity can exist in the everyday, utilitarian … Read More
