Techno File: Four Ways to Reliable Red Ceramic Glazes
Who can resist a beautiful bright red glaze? But red is also one of the most difficult colors to achieve … Read More
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Ceramic Stains: The Easy Way to Create All the Colors of the Rainbow on Your Pottery
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
A Plethora of Purple: Glaze Recipes for Earthenware, Stoneware and Porcelain
Purple is one of my favorite colors. From pale lavender to deep eggplant there are so many gorgeous purple hues. … Read More
Mocha Diffusion and Slip Dotting Pottery
Though it might sound like a fancy coffee drink, mocha diffusion is a little-known technique of ceramic surface decoration developed … Read More
How to Increase or Reduce Crazing in a Glaze
In ceramics, one person’s fault is another person fancy. While crazing is technically a glaze fault, it can also be … Read More
Recipes for Cool Ceramic Glaze Colors
If you’ve seen anything I have made in the last several years, you know that I’m a little bit obsessed … Read More
Tips for Using Underglaze Pens for Drawing on Ceramics
I love pots with pattern and imagery and have done a lot with screen printing on clay and paper stencils in my work. … Read More
Everything You Need to Know About Cobalt Blue Glaze Recipes
Cobalt blue glaze recipes are in most potters’ repertoires because they produce beautiful blue glazes. And what’s not to love … Read More
Spotlight: Red Clay Love
Earthenware clay serves as the base layer of Shanna Fliegel’s dynamic, collaged illustrations. … Read More
Tangible Fiction
I’ve always been fascinated with the tangible realities of history and the boundless fantasy of science fiction. In my work … Read More
