How to Make Vibrant Bursts of Color on Pottery Using Clay Slip and Ceramic Colorants
Lana Wilson uses texture and clay slip to decorate much of her work. It’s a a lot of fun to … Read More
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How to Create Gradient Color with Underglaze
I have attempted to create the ombre effect (gradient color from light to darker, or one hue to another) on … Read More
Custom Work Table/Workspace
Learning how I best work as an artist took some time. As an undergraduate student, I only experienced working in … Read More
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
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
Image Transfer with Pyrofoto: Another Cool Way to Put Images on Pottery
There are various processes for transferring images to clay, from photocopy transfers, silkscreening and stencils, to laser transfer decals and … Read More
How to Find the Best Kiln Wash for Your Firing Temperature and Methods
Most potters don’t give much thought to kiln wash and just use the recipe they used when they first learned … Read More
Tips and Tools: The Magic Cleaning Sponge
Learn how to rid bisque-fired surfaces of residual underglaze or stain after inlaying processes with a common household cleaner—the Magic … 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 Colorful Variation on the Naked Raku Technique
The definition of raku firing (American-style) is “a firing process in which work is removed from the kiln at bright … Read More
