An Easy Way to Transfer Imagery to Pottery
A few years back, Doug Gray was interested in incorporating his digital photography into his clay work. He tried decals, but it wasn’t the look he was after – he wanted the photos to help him create...
View ArticleHow to Make a Square Baking Dish and Fill it with Rhubarb Crisp
In my neck of the woods, it's the time of year when rhubarb starts peaking up through the cold ground. So when I saw Sumi von Dassow's article on how to make a baker for rhubarb crisp going into the...
View ArticleHow to Prepare Colored Slips for Slip Trailing, Plus Lots of Slip Trailing Tips!
Slip trailing is a lovely way to add dimensionality to your work. And it is super simple to prepare your slip from your own clay body. In today's clip, an excerpt from her DVD Layered Surfaces, Erin...
View ArticleLow Budget Glaze Spraying: Using an Atomizer for Great Ceramic Glazing Effects
Spraying glazes is a wonderful way to make otherwise solid glaze colors have variation and depth, but not everyone has access to a spray booth. That's where an atomizer comes in! In today's bonus...
View ArticleHow to Make Super Sharp DIY Sgraffito Tools
Clay is rough on tools. Fortunately, some of the most used tools in the box are quick and easy to assemble right in your own studio. In today's post, an excerpt from the April 2013 issue of Ceramics...
View ArticleHow to Handbuild a Graceful Over-the-Top Teapot Handle That Looks Pulled
Today, we are introducing a new DVD that is a little different from our usual DVDs. This one, Getting Creative with Spouts & Handles, features four terrific artists demonstrating four complete...
View ArticleMake Your Own Ceramic Mosaic Patio Table for Cookout Season
What do art teachers do in their time off? Art projects, of course. Clay Cunningham and his wife added a new mosaic ceramic top to their picnic table during their summer off. Not a bad idea for a...
View ArticleA Visit Down Under to Kenji Uranishi’s Pottery Studio
Kenji Uranishi left the countryside of Japan in 2004 to set up shop in Brisbane, Australia and be with his Aussie girlfriend (now wife). His studio is small and sometimes it is necessary to spill over...
View ArticlePottery Video of the Week: A New Twist on a Faceted Bowl
In today's post, an excerpt from his DVD Lively Forms and Expressive Surfaces (which is now shipping by the way!!), Mark Peters shares a new twist that he came up with for faceting pots. By making the...
View ArticleHow to Make a Cool Textured Handle and Give it a Great Curve with a Dowel
Getting a beautiful curve on a handle can sometimes be challenging, especially if you don't like to pull handles. But Bill van Gilder has a tip that makes it easy peasey. In today's bonus Monday video,...
View ArticleThe Pinched Rim Plate: Combining the Polished Look of Throwing with the Raw...
I have been sort of obsessed with plates lately - I haven't been making any (too busy lately for the studio!) but I have been looking at the plates of other potters and thinking about the form a LOT....
View ArticleVideo of the Week: How to Make a Wheel-Thrown and Handbuilt Ladle
It's one thing to serve punch from a handmade ceramic punch bowl, but throw a handmade ceramic ladle in there, and you've reached a whole new level of cool. In today's post, an excerpt from her DVD...
View ArticleYou Say Neriage, I Say Nerikomi…No Matter What You Call it, Mixing Colored...
Today Robin Hopper explains the distinction between neriage and nerikomi, as it was explained to him by Thomas Hoadley, a long time colored clay aficionado. He also explains how to create a lovely...
View ArticleEmerging Artist 2013 People’s Choice Contest
After several rounds of narrowing down, revisiting, heated debate, and in-depth discussion, even fisticuffs, the editors of Ceramics Monthly chose thirteen deserving artists for the 2013 Emerging...
View ArticleGlazed and Confused? How to Mix a Color Blend and Interpret the Results
Last summer we traveled to the lovely Bakersville, North Carolina, studio of John Britt to tap into his vast knowledge of glaze chemistry for a glazing DVD. I am super stoked to announce its release...
View ArticleThree Tips for Throwing Smarter and Stronger
There have been many times in my wheel throwing career that I have thought, "I just can't throw large pots. I am not strong enough." But I have learned over the years that to throw big, you don't need...
View ArticleMaking Delicate Porcelain Sculpture with Porcelain Slip and Flaxed Paper Clay
Helen Gilmour is interested in the relationships between traditional crafts. So she decided to make traditional pottery forms - like teapots and bowls - that look like they are knitted. The result is a...
View ArticleVideo of the Week: How to Whack Your Wheel Thrown Pottery into Shape
Everyone who is learning to throw on the pottery wheel has probably had moments when they wanted to give the clay a whack (or throw it across the room). But this doesn't necessarily have to be a result...
View ArticleBeyond the Rainbow: The Colorful World of Commercial Underglazes
Commercial underglazes are basically clay slips containing colorants, and they're a great way to add color to your work using a variety of application methods. And since they're formulated to have low...
View ArticleHow to Throw an Oblong Bowl on the Potters Wheel
We recently featured a square baking dish project on the blog (with a rhubarb crisp recipe too!), but today I thought I would point out that you can use that technique to make all shapes and sizes of...
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