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Facets and undercuts inevitably lead to complicated molds when slip casting. Walk through the process, step by step, of creating … Read More

After spending 40 years focused on form, Andrew Matheson has shifted to exploring a variety of decoration techniques on the … Read More

From the pit-fired surfaces of African pottery to the simple lines of classical Greek forms, Boyan Moskov harmonizes a range … Read More

This post is all about carving into clay and the best tools and techniques for doing so. In this post, potter … Read More

If you’re bored with glazing, working with colored clay is a fun way to get color and pattern onto your … Read More

Starting in the 1920s, an émigré potter honed the skills he learned in Bulgaria and started a career-long focus on … Read More

Have you ever been using a store-bought throwing rib and thought, “if only this rib was shaped like this…or…like that?” … Read More

Slip trailing is a great way to add decoration to pots. Most ceramic artists use a fairly liquid slip when … Read More

Slips, engobes, and underglazes are a lot of fun to use for ceramic decoration and there are endless ways to … Read More

Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More