Making Delicate Porcelain Sculpture with Porcelain Slip and Flaxed Paper Clay
Helen Gilmour is interested in the relationships between traditional crafts. So she decided to make traditional pottery forms–like teapots and … Read More
Tag: slumping
Process of creating ceramic wares with a slump-mold. Firing defect where glassy-phase begins to dissolve sintered structure in clay, causing it to sag and deform. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
The Particulars of Clay Body Plasticity
Ahhh plasticity! It’s the property of clay that got us hooked on it in the first place. Caused by just … Read More
Persnickety Porcelain Clay: How to Minimize Your Loss Rate
Porcelain clay is a clay body that draws in many a potter because of its bright white color, translucency, and … Read More
Constructing and Carving Double-Walled Forms
I’ve always appreciated ornamentation and its ability to elevate the ordinary into something magnificent. I’m driven to create work that’s … Read More
A Couple of Cool Clay Sculpture Techniques
There are a multitude of clay sculpture techniques for ceramic artists to choose from. The possibility for expression is unlimited … Read More
Red Clay Glaze
My work is always fired to cone 6 in oxidation and I build glazes that include 20–25% red clay and … Read More
Bowl Making: The Inversion Technique
As potters, our products should exhibit economy and spontaneity in form and decoration through intelligent use of mind, eye, and … Read More
“It Started Out of a Guilty Pleasure”
Even though Lars Voltz loves the versatility a pitcher offers him as a ceramic maker, he admits he has never … Read More
Techno File: Cation Exchange
Plasticity is created by a negative electrostatic charge, and clay memory is caused by a positive charge. Check out how … Read More
Impressions, Imprints, and Dipping
If an absorbent organic material such as cotton fiber or woven fabric is dipped into slip (liquid clay) and then … Read More
