How to Make a Clay Ocarina
All kinds of musical instruments can be fashioned from clay, with one of the simplest being the clay ocarina. If … Read More
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Everything You Need to Know About Cobalt Blue Glaze Recipes
Cobalt glaze recipes are in most potters’ repertoires because they produce beautiful blue glazes. And what’s not to love about … Read More
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
Slab Pottery Templates: A Great Way to Generate New Forms
Using slab pottery templates is a great way to consistently build a form over and over again. But there are … Read More
In the Studio: Math for Potters
Maybe you are among the many potters who are intimidated by math—you’re an artist, you’re intuitive, you naturally see proportion … Read More
Lichens and Lizards and Leopards, Oh My! Reticulated Glaze Recipes For Wild Ceramic Surfaces
Although glaze crawling – when glaze recedes away from an area in the firing, leaving bare clay – is often … Read More
A Guide to the Ceramic Kiln and Various Firing Methods
One of the things all ceramic artists have in common is that we all need to fire our work in … Read More
How to Customize Brushes for Pottery
If you like to make brushwork on your work, you know that brushes for pottery can be expensive. The cheapie … Read More
Andy Bissonnette: Seeking Order in Symmetry
Within Andy Bissonnette’s refined vessels exists a series of contrasts: smooth and carved, complex and simple, intentional and organic. Using … 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
