Combining Wheel Techniques and Handbuilding Pottery for Great Results
When exploring ideas for hand building pottery forms using smaller wheel thrown parts, Ronan Kyle Peterson discovered something pretty cool: … Read More
Tag: Slip
Clay suspended in water, usually the consistency of thick cream.
Recording Glaze Development
It’s amazing how many students and full-time clay workers go about making glazes with a lengthy and time-consuming process, only … Read More
Tactile Geology
I’m trained as a geologist, but I’ve been working with ceramics full time for 35 years. As in geology, I … Read More
The Cat’s Meow
I’ll never forget coming home from an outing to find the butter dish left out on the table with the … Read More
Why Use Coils?
This process requires you to consider color first, rather than last, as there’s no glaze on the outside of the … 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
How to Throw an Optimally Designed Whiskey Cup
Whiskey bottles are a popular form in a lot of potters’ vocabularies–understandably because whiskey is delicious! But you also need … Read More
How to Make Vibrant Bursts of Color on Pottery Using Ceramic Colorants and Slip
Impressing textures into soft clay and then playing with those textures in the glazing process is loads of fun (in … Read More
In the Studio: Split Rims
When I first began throwing pots I gravitated to throwing bowls. One of the challenges I faced was how to … Read More
