Printmaking and Pottery: Using Linocuts to Make Clay Prints
One of the things I really like about clay is how easily it meshes with printmaking, another art form I … Read More
Tag: sgraffito
Decorating technique achieved by scratching or carving through a layer of slip or glaze (helps to apply wax-resist over glaze before carving) before firing to expose contrasting claybody beneath. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Creating Layers of Surface Detail with Texture Stenciling
When most of us think of stenciling on pottery, we probably think of laying down a stencil and painting over … Read More
Too Much is Just Enough!
My work is a lot about surface decoration. And a well-crafted canvas to put the pattern on is essential to … Read More
Local Color: A Potter Uses Local Vegetation in Ash Glaze Recipes
The late Sandy Vitarelli spent most of her life on tropical islands in the pacific and her pottery reflects that. … Read More
Working Potters: Studio Touya: Hitomi and Takuro Shibata
Hitomi Shibata with Takuro Shibata
In Shigaraki, we mass-produced pots for the commercial market. That was not necessarily what we wanted to do, but we … Read More
Exposure: June/July/August 2017
Images from Current and Upcoming Exhibitions … Read More
Preserving a Fading Tradition
There is no sign marking the entrance to Twante Pottery Village in Myanmar, but when you cross the village boundary … Read More
Clay Culture: Blue Kashi Tiles
The effect created on building façades and the interiors of holy spaces using intricately painted ceramic tiles made in the … Read More
A House Built for Butter
The butter dish, no matter how elaborately designed, in essence, is an informal form reserved for informal dining. The butter … Read More
Mahima Singh: Adventure, Innovation, and Adaptation
I first noticed Mahima Singh’s work on the Pottery Northwest (PNW) kiln-room shelves. I was halfway through my residency there, … Read More
