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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Editor’s Note: Looking Forward
To help you get started, this issue of Pottery Making Illustrated is all about tools—both the physical tools you use … Read More
Mixing Clay Bodies in the Ceramics Studio
Mixing clay is generally not done by most studio potters. Instead, most of us buy premixed pottery clay neatly pugged and … Read More
Pottery Careers: Expert Insights into Making a Living as a Potter
For many of us in the Ceramic Arts Network community, making pottery is something we wished we were doing more … Read More
How to Correct Five Common Ceramic Glaze Defects
It is especially true in the ceramics world that one person’s fault is another person’s fancy–especially when it comes to … 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
Working Potter: Sarah Pike
Sarah Pike details how her education, mentors, and creative drive led to choosing a life as a working potter. Despite … Read More
Clay Culture: Shifting into Neutral
Social-distancing orders went into effect after this crew finished their most recent wood firing but before they were able to … Read More
How to Make a Ceramic Flute
This past Monday was one of those Mondays that give Mondays a bad name. As a coping mechanism, I decided … Read More
Soft Transitions
I’m captivated by the processes and experiences that are associated with ceramics. The material can exhibit vitality, spontaneity, and tension, … Read More
