Hare’s Fur and Oil Spot Glazes
Oil spot and hare’s fur glazes are beautiful and fascinating. In a nutshell, they are high-iron glazes that are applied … Read More
Tag: tenmoku
Classic East Asian high-iron gloss glaze giving black where thick, breaking to brown or red-brown where thin. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Tips for Increasing or Decreasing Crystallization in Glazes
Lately I have been experimenting with different firing schedules to see how my glazes are affected. One exciting discovery was … Read More
Techno File: Crystal Cool
Years ago, I put a glossy, transparent, gray/off-white glaze into a wood kiln and it came out matte, opaque, and … Read More
Techno File: Tenmoku to Tomato Red
Ryan Coppage, PhD and Jenn Wicks
Do you ever wonder how a glaze can completely change color with the adjustment of a single ingredient? Take a … Read More
Recipes: Tried and True
Mike Cinelli, Jackie Head, Jennifer Higerd, Justin Rothshank, and Deb Schwartzkopf
Artists from the Collaborative Companions exhibition, the Franklin County Clay Guild, and this issue’s process-focused feature share recipes they rely … Read More
Clay Culture: Sonoma Ash Project
This ceramic artist fostered healing within a community devastated by the 2017 Tubbs Fire by incorporating the ash of lost … Read More
Techno File: Visual Arts Shino
Traditionally, shino-glazed works are fired in reduction kilns—as a reducing atmosphere must be created for iron to be drawn into … Read More
Weaving Your Way with Clay
Teaching a clay class in the Loveland parks and recreation program for the last 27 years has been gratifying to … Read More
Masayuki Miyajima: Innovation from Tradition
Innovation in art, as in all practices, may be perceptible only against the backdrop of convention, but convention need not … Read More
Editor’s Note: Flow
The psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihalyi wrote in his book Flow, “It is not the skills we actually have that determine how … Read More
