2019 Emerging Artist: Elaine Buss
Elaine Buss draws upon the wide-open spaces of the rural landscape she grew up in to create her ambiguous moonscape … Read More
Tag: terra sigillata
Ultrarefined clay slip that can give a soft sheen when applied to bone-dry wares and if polished or burnished while still damp may give a high gloss.
2019 Emerging Artist: Eric Heerspink
Those glowing lines are made of saturated glaze, and appear simultaneously instructional as they divide each form, yet technological in … Read More
Wood Firing Terra Sigillata
Terra sigillata is a material that is primarily used at low temperatures. But when Alan Willoughby was switching from low … Read More
Terra Sigillata 101: How to Make, Apply, and Troubleshoot Terra Sig
Terra sigillata is an ultrarefined clay slip that can give a soft sheen when applied to bone-dry wares and, if … Read More
An Introduction to Fuel-Burning Kilns
Fuels are organic and carbon based, they burn readily. Until recently, all kilns were fuel burning; even now when we … 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
Terra Sigillata in Wood Fire
By following his curiosity, Alan Willoughby found that a traditionally low-fired surface treatment reacts dramatically with flame, wood ash, and … Read More
From the Editor: April 2019
As a technique, firing work in a kiln or pit where the fuel and atmosphere around the pieces have a … Read More
How to Siphon Terra Sigillata
My first exposure to the word siphon was in some old movie in which the outlaw characters were siphoning gas … Read More
Burnishing Pottery: A Step by Step Guide
Burnishing pottery is a technique in which clay is polished to a beautiful sheen without the use of glaze. Ancient … Read More
