Ceramic Stains: The Easy Way to Create All the Colors of the Rainbow on Your Pottery
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
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Transition to More Possibilities
Shortly after graduating from college, I came up with a line of pottery using thrown and altered forms, a black … Read More
Smooth Lines
Just as clay has a strong physical memory, one of my most vivid early memories of using pottery was eating … Read More
A Super Simple Analogy to Help You Understand Glaze Structure
Understanding glaze structure isn’t hard. Ceramic glazes consist of three main components: glass formers, fluxes, and refractories. If you can … Read More
A Guide to the Ceramic Kiln and Various Firing Methods
One of the things all ceramic artists have in common is that we all need to fire our work in … Read More
Time to Warm Up! 5 Red and Orange Glaze Recipes
With the warming summer temperatures, I thought I would share some red and orange glaze recipes to brighten up your … Read More
Photo Lithography on Clay: A Surprisingly Simple Way to Print Images On Clay
A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of watching Kristina Bogdanov demonstrate a really cool way to transfer … Read More
Lichens and Lizards and Leopards, Oh My! Reticulated Glaze Recipes For Wild Ceramic Surfaces
Although glaze crawling – when glaze recedes away from an area in the firing, leaving bare clay – is often … Read More
Easy Peasy Cone 04 Glaze Recipes
In today’s post, our own Holly Goring not only includes some versatile three-ingredient cone 04 glaze recipes, but she also … 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
