Aluminum Foil Saggars: An Easy Alternative to Traditional Clay Saggars
Saggar firing was originally developed to protect wares from ash-slagging and flame-flashing in wood firings, but in contemporary use, with … 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
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
Studio Visit: Monte Young, Jasper, Indiana
After a long career in manufacturing, while making pots on the side, Monte Young moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to … Read More
Clay Culture: Shaw’s Posters
Concepts that riff off personal relationships and art history have been executed with elaborate staging in trompe-l’oeil artist Richard Shaw’s … Read More
How to Use Latex Resist to Create Glaze Patterns
I just added latex resist to my ever expanding studio supplies shopping list. What is latex resist, you ask? Liquid … Read More
Out of Round
I began making a thrown and altered vase about five years ago, after seeing many variations of an oval or … Read More
Studio Visit: Morean Center for Clay: Artists in Residence, St. Petersburg, Florida
Communication and respect are essential for the six resident artists working in the open-floor-plan studios of the Morean Center for … Read More
An Introduction to Electric Pottery Kilns
Richard Zakin and Frederick Bartolovic
It goes without saying that kilns are a crucial part of the ceramic process, and increasingly, potters are using electric … Read More
Hydraulic Press
Studio equipment can be a huge investment, ranging from a few hundred dollars into the thousands, plus the costs of … Read More
The Geometry of Urbanity
Facets and undercuts inevitably lead to complicated molds when slip casting. Walk through the process, step by step, of creating … Read More
