Pinch Pot Technique: A Fundamental Way to Make a Beautiful Pitcher
When you first decide you want to create your own pottery, it’s likely your first class will involve the pinch … Read More
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Studio Visit: Adero Willard, Chicopee, Massachusetts
Converting a two-car garage into a home-studio space with adaptable shelving, a sliding-glass door for lots of light, and a … Read More
Spotlight: A Level of Alchemy
Michelle Im’s current body of earthenware vessels grew from a cause-and-effect relationship between clay body and building process. Imagery from … Read More
Lane Chapman: A Powerful Touch
Loose handbuilt forms in red stoneware become the substrate for layered slips, animal imagery, and accents of glaze. Combined, Lane … Read More
How to Make Pinch Pots Without Ruining Your Wrists!
Pinch pots are undergoing a bit of a renaissance these days. Even though pinching pots is an ancient technique, more … Read More
The Nature of Carving
Both functional and decorative, my carved porcelain pots are created to be joyful, tactile containers for nature’s beauty. I am … Read More
How to Handbuild Using Molded Sections
We’ve posted a lot of handbuilding techniques on CAN that utilize various types of slump molds or hump molds. From … Read More
New Surface Decoration Webinar with Sara Ballek
Join Sara Ballek as she walks you through a colorful course filled with many exciting processes that will ignite inspiration … Read More
The Hummingbird Watering Pitcher
Working in clay, a familiar method and style emerge that provide relatively accurate expectations of results. This is an important … Read More
How to Make a Pinched Vase Form from a Solid Lump of Clay
At first glance at Paul Briggs’ vases, you might assume that the leaf-like protuberances are attached after forming the vessel. … Read More
