Quick Tips: Clean Your Brush with the Brush Scraper
Keeping your brushes clean while working, decorating pottery, or waxing a pot is very important to prolong the life of … Read More
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Sculptural Vessels: Building with Slabs
The sculptural vessels that Olivia Tani makes combine visually distinct, seemingly inflated segments into a unified whole. She shares her … Read More
Heidi McKenzie: Mixed Clay and Color
Explorations of her own cultural hybridity and family history inform Heidi McKenzie’s choice of clays, forms, and surfaces in the … Read More
How to Design Low-Relief Carvings in Wet Clay
This post is all about carving into clay and the best tools and techniques for doing so. In this post, potter … Read More
Can Frozen Clay be Used Again? Yes!
We had our first snow of the season the other day, so it seems appropriate to share this post that … Read More
How Much Money Do Potters Make?
If you have been considering turning your pottery habit into a profession, you have probably pondered “how much money do … Read More
Collaborative Ceramic Jewelry
Ceramic jewelry involves two components, a ceramic piece and a metal finding. Start by creating the ceramic element for the … Read More
Inspired by Nature
As a fine arts major, I took a wide range of studio and art history classes, but never took a … Read More
Stenciling on Clay
My creative process proceeds not from form to decoration, but in reverse. I start with the development of a graphic … Read More
Throwing with Templates
This technique involves using templates to repeatedly create an even, symmetrical form. In the coil-building exercise, you position the template … Read More
