Ceramic Stains: The Easy Way to Create All the Colors of the Rainbow on Your Pottery
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
The chemically active state of the melted glaze. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
Cobalt blue glaze recipes are in most potters’ repertoires because they produce beautiful blue glazes. And what’s not to love … Read More
Over the past couple of decades, raku firing has become very popular. The unpredictability of the process keeps potters and … Read More
Chrome oxide or Cr2O3 is a common studio material that can help produce beautiful colors in the kiln. But it can be … Read More
An abundance of free wood ash from summer bonfires led Clausen to explore various ways to use this variable flux … Read More
Ah celadons, how I love celadons. These traditional east Asian glazes can produce translucent colors ranging from soft greens and … Read More
My Yonic Double Seed Server evolved from thoughts about seeds, their inner and outer hulls, and the shapes of seed … Read More
There are two main opacifiers (one inexpensive, the other costly) commonly used in ceramic glazes. Aside from general opacity, their … Read More
The heat of the kiln can have a dramatic effect on a glaze. In my own studio I usually have … Read More
1 Fired glaze test with a thin glaze slurry where the glaze is underfired and matte. 2 Fired test showing … Read More