Cool Colors: Ceramic Glaze Recipes for Greens, Blues and Turquoises
If you’ve seen anything I have made in the last several years, you know that I’m a little bit obsessed … Read More
Tag: flashing
Color change in fired clay or slip due to direct flame contact and residual ash deposition in wood firing, or due to variable currents of vapor deposition in salt and soda firing. Flashing can occur on almost any light-colored claybody, but is most dramatic on porcelain bodies and slips. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Wood Fired Pots Without the Wood Kiln
Wood firing clay is an exciting endeavor and if you ever have a chance to participate in a wood firing, … Read More
Studio Visit: Logan Wannamaker
My studio is located outside Taos, New Mexico, on the way to the Taos Ski Valley and an hour and … Read More
Techno File: Visual Arts Shino
Traditionally, shino-glazed works are fired in reduction kilns—as a reducing atmosphere must be created for iron to be drawn into … Read More
How to Make a Texture Board for Slab-Built Pottery
Texture can be addictive in pottery, and there are an infinite variety of tools that can be used to create … Read More
Bridging American and Japanese Ceramics
Many American potters tend to romanticize Japanese ceramics, and are most familiar with its wood-fired aesthetics and traditions, its connection … Read More
Stacking Spice Jars
The inspiration for these stacking jars occurred during a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. While sleep deprived … Read More
Techno File: Subbing Fluxes
Many different glazes can easily be formulated from one base recipe by changing the source material for the flux, substituting … Read More
NCECA’s National Student Juried Exhibition
The 2016 National Student Juried Exhibition (NSJE), organized by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and … Read More
Techno File: Electric Wood Ash
Many of us keep day jobs and dream of that week we can pour into an anagama firing, only to … Read More
