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
Tag: iron
Most abundant coloring material on earth, responsible for brown and sometimes black color in natural rock and fired clays. In oxidation firings, the red ferric oxide remains very refractory, but in reduction firing and or at high-fire temperatures it transforms to the black ferrous oxide, a powerful flux. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
How to Decorate Pottery Using the Cuerda Seca Technique
Cuerda seca, which translates from Spanish to “dry cord,” is an ancient technique for creating line decoration on pottery using … Read More
Tips for Successful Raku Firing: Raku Clay Bodies and Kilns
Over the past couple of decades, raku firing has become very popular. The unpredictability of the process keeps potters and … Read More
How to Make Casting Slip from Your Clay Body
Ready-made casting slip is commercially available in all firing ranges, making it super convenient, but if you were wondering how … 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
Quick Tips: Cheap DIY Banding Wheel and Fast Scrap Dryer
Clay people have some darn impressive ingenuity when it comes to improving the efficiency of their processes. We get a … Read More
Saggar Firing with Soluble Salts
Saggar firing is the method of creating confined atmospheres in a kiln within a container or saggar. Depending on the … Read More
Illustrated Plates
Ecology, landscape, and our evolving relationship with the natural world have always been themes I’ve explored in my work. With … Read More
In the Studio: High-Fire Terra Sigillata
High-fire terra sigillata? Is this even possible? Yes! Terra sigillatas remain stable from low fire through mid range to high … Read More
Slip Casting Ceramics Using Colored Casting Slip
Slip casting ceramics is a forming technique that has endless potential. Andrew Gilliatt adds a whole new level of fun … Read More
