Roadside Glazes: Your Next Great Pottery Glaze Might be Just Down the Road
Ceramic artists in this day and age have it relatively easy when it comes to obtaining materials for their craft. … Read More
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Profile of the firing of a kiln, including speed, duration, soaking periods, etc. of both the heating and cooling cycle, as in firing ramp and cooling ramp. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Rapid Bisque Firing
The most challenging firing that ceramic artists undertake is the bisque firing. It is also, more often than not, the … Read More
Techno File: Rapid Bisque Firing
Most beginning potters pay little attention to bisque firings until they experience an explosion. More often than not, glaze blemishes … Read More
Techno File: Rapid Bisque Firing
Most beginning potters pay little attention to bisque firings until they experience an explosion. More often than not, glaze blemishes … Read More
A Bisque Firing Schedule to Help Prevent Glaze Faults
When you pull a piece out of the kiln and there is a glaze defect on it, you might think there … Read More
An Oxidized Bisque Firing
Many clay and glaze faults in ceramic wares are caused by incomplete burnout (oxidation) of carbon and sulfur during the … Read More
Tips and Tools: Waste into Want
We use a hexagonal wooden template to create the original clay paver models. After the original is leather hard we … Read More
Using Clay Wax and Black Stain to Create a Weathered Look on Pottery
Scot Cameron-Bell has never been afraid of color. Living by the motto that “your art does not have to match … Read More
Your Art Does Not Have to Match Your Sofa!
Your art does not have to match your sofa: this has been my tongue-in-cheek mantra for … Read More
Archive Article: Controlled Drying and Firing—Large Scale Sculpture and Tile
Careful control of the drying and firing stages is necessary for successful completion of large-scale sculpture and tilework. Although climatic … Read More
