How to Make Casting Slip from Your Clay Body
Ready-made casting slip is commercially available in all firing ranges, making it super convenient, but if you were wondering how … Read More
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How and Why to Use a Kiln Exhaust System
If you are looking to buy a kiln, you will need to consider a kiln exhaust system too. Typically we … Read More
Slip Casting Ceramics Using Colored Casting Slip
Slip casting ceramics is a forming technique that has endless potential. Andrew Gilliatt adds a whole new level of fun … Read More
Etched in Clay: How to Make Beautiful Relief Surfaces with Shellac Resist
Not long into his ceramics career, Jim Gottuso discovered shellac resist is a great alternative to wax resist for creating decoration … Read More
Pottery Careers: Expert Insights into Making a Living as a Potter
For many of us in the Ceramic Arts Network community, making pottery is something we wished we were doing more … Read More
A Simple Watercolor Majolica Technique
Ceramic stains and underglazes mixed with water painted on unfired white-glazed bisque is pretty similar to watercolor painting on paper. … Read More
Storytelling Slide Boxes
When I make functional work, I consider the positions of everyday use—stacking cups to store on a shelf, drying plates … Read More
Inlaid Slip Casting
As an obsessive collector of objects, I’m constantly on the lookout for items with alluring shapes and patterns. In 2014, … Read More
Pattern and Social Media
As a student at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the 1990s, I used to photocopy design books … Read More
In the Studio: Know Your Rights
Until 1990, when the British comedy group Monty Python (whose work included television, film, theater, audio recordings, literature, etc.), won … Read More
