Roll Call: Seven Great Handmade and Store-Bought Roulettes for Adding Texture to Pottery
Nothing decorates a pot faster than rolling a pattern into wet or soft leather-hard clay. Whether you’re working on the … Read More
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Tips and Tools: Reclaiming Clay
Potter Mea Rhee makes the daunting task of reclaiming clay manageable by keeping an eye on her slop bucket and … Read More
Evident Process: Coiling and Throwing
Envision a cabin or a woven basket: both are constructed in a linear manner and demonstrate a labor of love. … Read More
Slip Trailing for Beginners: A Primer on a Great Ceramics Decorating Technique
Slip trailing is a great way to use clay slip as a decorative tool. Like its cousin glaze trailing, slip … Read More
Mocha Diffusion and Slip Dotting Pottery
Though it might sound like a fancy coffee drink, mocha diffusion is a little-known technique of ceramic surface decoration developed … Read More
Clay Plate Designs That Are Both Rough and Refined
I have been sort of obsessed with plates lately – I haven’t been making any (too busy lately for the … Read More
How to Make Magic Rice Paper Transfers for Ceramics
A couple NCECAs ago, I bought some rice paper transfers from a supplier at the conference. They are super fun … Read More
Polymer Clay Stamps for Applying Texture
I saw Virginia Cartwright demonstrating at a Potters Council (now the International Ceramic Artists Network–ICAN) workshop a couple years back … Read More
Mishima Ceramics: Creating Fine Lines with Slip Inlay
I was first introduced to Mishima ceramics decoration when I attended a Lorna Meaden workshop years ago. Before that I … Read More
Minding the Corners
It’s all about the clay: how it feels in your hands, on your fingertips; how it can be shaped and … Read More
