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
A Plethora of Purple: Glaze Recipes for Earthenware, Stoneware and Porcelain
Purple is one of my favorite colors. From pale lavender to deep eggplant there are so many gorgeous purple hues. … Read More
Why Use Coils?
This process requires you to consider color first, rather than last, as there’s no glaze on the outside of the … Read More
How to Make Vibrant Bursts of Color on Pottery Using Ceramic Colorants and Slip
Impressing textures into soft clay and then playing with those textures in the glazing process is loads of fun (in … Read More
Stack and Slam Wire Wedging: An Efficient and Easy-on-the-Wrists Way to Wedge Pottery Clay
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is all too familiar to ceramic artists, especially those who work on the pottery wheel. But even … Read More
Moon Do Bang
Earlier this year I interviewed Byung Sik Moon, a successful artist who runs Moon Do Bang, a pottery located in … Read More
Roberto Lugo: Undermining Indifference
The most insidious response to racism is indifference. It does not manifest itself in brutal beatings, malicious rants in cyberspace, … Read More
Anything but the Expected
The history of porcelain is a captivating one, steeped in wealth, power, and mystery. Porcelain objects reigned as status symbols … Read More
Clay Culture: Growing Creatively
A community of artists working together at a non-profit in Oakland, California, is shattering stereotypes by finding ways to overcome … Read More
