5 Pottery Handle Techniques for Handles That Function Well
It’s one thing to learn how to make handles for pottery. It’s another thing all together to make pottery handles … Read More
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Process of incising surface of wet or leather-hard clay in crosshatch pattern before applying slurry and joining pieces. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
How to Use Cheap Craft Store Tools to Add Playful Details to a Wheel Thrown Cup
Ever since buying one of Chandra DeBuse’s yunomis a couple of years ago, I wondered how she created the biomorphic … Read More
Ceramic Lesson Plan – How to Make a Teapot in 30 Minutes
Learning how to make a teapot is a challenge and a milestone for potters. There are so many components to … Read More
Implied Dynamics: The Ceramic Sculpture of Kenneth Baskin
Through a focus on mechanical components and fragmented systems, Kenneth Baskin explores the tension between suggested motion and balance, careworn … Read More
How to Make a Platter with a Simple Template
For a couple of years now, I have been trying to make the switch from wheel throwing to handbuilding so … Read More
Flat Tiles The Easy Way
Recently, I decided to replace the aesthetically challenged house numbers on my abode with something that better fit the character … Read More
How to Fix Cracks in Pottery
One of the most useful things for all potters and ceramic artists to learn is how to fix cracks in … Read More
The Inseparable Relationship
My work is an embodiment of the inseparable relationship among earth, body, and plant. I do not try to put … Read More
Japan in Mind
My admiration for Oribe pottery, a love of Japanese rock gardens, a utility cover on a Tokyo street, and two … 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
