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
Tag: porcelain
High-fired vitreous claybody containing kaolin, silica, fluxes, and often ball clay to increase plasticity, with total clay component not more than 50%. Usually pure white or “eggshell” in color; some porcelains may fire translucent where thin. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
How to Make Delicate Translucent Platters with Porcelain Slip and Terra Sigillata
Think thin porcelain. Now think even thinner porcelain and you have the plates of Christina Bryer. These translucent plates are … Read More
How to Make Vibrant Bursts of Color on Pottery Using Clay Slip and Ceramic Colorants
Lana Wilson uses texture and clay slip to decorate much of her work. It’s a a lot of fun to … Read More
Kirsten Stingle: The Veneer of Sweetness Over the Complicated Core
Kirsten Stingle’s figures are characters on an epic journey, born from the thousands of existing tales and legends about women, … Read More
Susan Beiner’s Garden of UN-Earthly Delights
Susan Beiner’s installations present a hybrid, often vibrantly colored world saved by an ecosystem able to adapt to and evolve … Read More
Studio Visit: Wood Song Pottery: William Baker and Joy Tanner, Bakersville, North Carolina
We were able to purchase our first home in Bakersville, North Carolina, about an hour from Asheville, in 2012. In … Read More
Hare’s Fur and Oil Spot Glazes
Oil spot and hare’s fur glazes are beautiful and fascinating. In a nutshell, they are high-iron glazes that are applied … Read More
Persnickety Porcelain Clay: How to Minimize Your Loss Rate
Porcelain clay is a clay body that draws in many a potter because of its bright white color, translucency, and … Read More
How to Make and Use Underglaze Pencils, Crayons, Pens, and Trailers
Underglaze pencils, pens, and crayons can be great for ceramic artists who may have started with a background in painting … Read More
Mixing Clay Bodies in the Ceramics Studio
Mixing clay is generally not done by most studio potters. Instead, most of us buy premixed pottery clay neatly pugged and … Read More
