How to Combine Patterns for Beautiful All-Over Decoration
Inspired by cast glassware and vintage textiles, Colleen McCall decorates her stoneware pots from top to bottom using layers of … Read More
Tag: majolica
Trade name for an historic English style of brightly glazed earthenware vessels made in the form of vegetables, animals, etc. Not to be confused with maiolica, which is defined as earthenware with opaque white glaze (traditionally a lead glaze made opaque white with the addition of tin oxide) and colored overglaze decoration. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
The Magic of Majolica: How to Create Vibrant Painterly Decoration on Pottery
Majolica, also referred to as maiolica, is a fabulous decorative technique for potters who wish to treat their surfaces like … Read More
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
A Simple Watercolor Majolica Technique
Ceramic stains and underglazes mixed with water painted on unfired white-glazed bisque is pretty similar to watercolor painting on paper. … Read More
Underglaze Painting Techniques on Bone Dry Pots
Underglaze is a magical material in the ceramics world. There are so many things you can do with it, from … Read More
How to Flocculate a Ceramic Glaze for Better Coverage
Have you ever glazed a piece and had the glaze run off the high points a little too much? Sometimes … Read More
A Great DIY Hack for Preserving an Essential Clay Tool
How many times have you ruined a perfectly good paintbrush by forgetting to clean it after waxing pots? If you … Read More
Connected by Stories
When talking to customers about his work, Jim Smith discusses the inspiration and processes that went into making the pieces. … Read More
Arthur’s Garden
The vibrant surfaces on Arthur Halvorsen’s terra-cotta vessels and plates include layers of imagery that create a symbolic personal narrative … Read More
A Super Simple Analogy to Help You Understand Glaze Structure
Understanding glaze structure isn’t hard. Ceramic glazes consist of three main components: glass formers, fluxes, and refractories. If you can … Read More
