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

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

Photos of all fired work: Jafe Parsons
Teaching a clay class in the Loveland parks and recreation program for the last … Read More

Innovation in art, as in all practices, may be perceptible only against the backdrop of convention, but convention need not … Read More

The psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihalyi wrote in his book Flow, “It is not the skills we actually have that determine how … Read More

When I opened my full-time studio in 1981 I envisioned, perhaps naively, that I would be able to work solo … Read More

Oil spot and hare’s fur glazes are beautiful and fascinating. In a nutshell, they are high-iron glazes that are applied … Read More

If you have ever had problems with pin holing or dunting, slow cooling your kiln could be the solution you … Read More

As a functional potter with a penchant for patterns and textures, I keep trying to find new shapes and forms … Read More

As a category, oil spot glazes are sometimes called Black and Brown ceramics. They include a wide variety of iron … Read More

My interest in crystals in saturated metallic glazes led me to travel to China several times to research a 12–16th … Read More