Creating Bold Colorful Surfaces with Underglazes
Ariana Heinzman creates bold, plant-inspired designs on her work using bright colors contrasted against black line work. As you can … Read More
Tag: underglazes
How to Make Magic Rice Paper Transfers for Ceramics
A couple NCECAs ago, I bought some rice paper transfers from a supplier at the conference. They are super fun … Read More
A Simple Watercolor Majolica Technique
Ceramic stains and underglazes mixed with water painted on unfired white-glazed bisque is pretty similar to watercolor painting on paper. … Read More
7 Fun Ways to Decorate with Slips and Engobes
Slips, engobes, and underglazes are a lot of fun to use for ceramic decoration and there are endless ways to … Read More
Successful Tips and Techniques for Raku Firing
We get a lot of questions from readers about the raku firing process. I think raku firing intrigues many a … Read More
French Connections
Jen Allen and Maia Leppo return to Pottery Making Illustrated to demonstrate a new collaborative technique for making beautiful ceramic … Read More
The Inseparable Relationship
My work is an embodiment of the inseparable relationship among earth, body, and plant. I do not try to put … Read More
In the Studio: Coloring Before the Lines
I love decorating pots with floral patterns outlined in sharp black line art. I used to spend hours unclogging trailing … Read More
A Bisque Firing Schedule to Help Prevent Glaze Faults
When you pull a piece out of the kiln and there is a glaze defect on it, you might think there … Read More
Red Hot Reds: All You Need to Know to Make Beautiful Red Glazes
In today’s post, David Gamble discusses a red hot topic for many a ceramic artist: how to achieve reliable red … Read More
