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
Tag: sketchbook
Editor’s Note: Practicing Decisions
I am famous (or maybe notorious is more appropriate) for working on an idea in my sketchbook for so long … Read More
Andy Bissonnette: Seeking Order in Symmetry
Within Andy Bissonnette’s refined vessels exists a series of contrasts: smooth and carved, complex and simple, intentional and organic. Using … Read More
Studio Visit: Parlour Pottery, Copper Hill, Virginia
Josh Manning and Hona Leigh Knudsen
Josh Manning and Hona Leigh Knudsen have renovated and retrofitted the milk parlour that belonged to Josh’s grandparents as their … Read More
Three Potters Share Their Best Sgraffito Tips, Plus a Bonus Video!
Sgraffito can be an impactful, dramatic way of decorating pots (like in Kathy King’s shown here) or a more subtle … Read More
Spotlight: Ongoing Exploration
Janvier and Gustaf Miller reflect on their decades-long careers working in clay, sculpture, and painting, from longevity to shifts in … Read More
In the Studio: Low-Stakes Creativity
The thought with this practice is that students will try new things if their grades will not be negatively impacted … Read More
Editor’s Note: Building the Field
Several times a year I have the opportunity to step out into the field and meet subscribers, teachers, students, studio … Read More
How to Take a Ceramic Art Project Idea From Concept to Reality
How do you take a creative idea and transform it into a successful finished ceramic piece? Everybody has their own … Read More
How to Transfer Hand-Drawn Designs to Ceramic Surfaces With Slip and Newspaper
An interesting twist on image transfer on ceramic surfaces
Image transfer is hot hot hot in ceramics these days and we … Read More
