Slip Trailing for Beginners: A Primer on a Great Ceramics Decorating Technique
Slip trailing is a great way to use clay slip as a decorative tool. Like its cousin glaze trailing, slip … Read More
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Application of decoration to wet or leather-hard clay by flowing on lines of slip with a fine pointed dispenser, such as a rubber syringe. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Testing Commercial Ceramic Glazes Over Texture in Electric Kilns
To get the most out of commercial ceramic glazes in your electric kiln, you need to understand the product descriptions … Read More
Clay Culture: 52 Years in Clay
The recent retrospective “Julie & Tyrone Larson: 52 Years in Clay” at the Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, … Read More
Creative Commercial Glazes: Great Combinations for Interesting Effects
Some folks feel like using commercial glazes is cheating, but I say, hogwash! I have been using commercial glazes for … Read More
Paper to Pots: Slip Decorating
Intimidated by the blank surface of your wheel-thrown or handbuilt pots? Don’t fancy yourself as an illustrator? Teresa Pietsch teaches … Read More
Evolving From Canvas to Clay
I began painting as a child, learning oil painting before I was 10. Although I took a lot of ceramics … Read More
Resistance is Not Futile: Great Decoration with Resists
The options are many when it comes to creating decoration on your pottery with resists. While browsing the Pottery Making Illustrated archives, … Read More
Clay Monoprinting: A Great Way to Get Hand Drawn Imagery on Pots
I love that printmaking and ceramics mesh so well because I am a big fan of both! From screen printing … Read More
8 Ways to Apply Glaze
No matter how eager you might be to begin splashing on your newly concocted glazes, there are a few details … Read More
Drawn and Transferred
There is a rich history of sharing cultural values and beliefs both through the telling of stories as well as … Read More
