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Making a Tray for a Non Round Form

Marty Fielding enjoys making nonround angular forms, but is a wheel thrower at heart. So, rather than building from the ground up with slabs, Marty makes the walls of his pieces on the wheel then cuts...

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Creating Surface Designs with Glaze, Wax and Underglaze

I am always looking for new ways to add designs and imagery to my work and I am always amazed that I keep discovering new techniques. Case in point: the Brenda Quinn article in the latest issue of...

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Cardboard Stencils and Colored Slips Add Imagery and Texture to Slabs

I love using stencils in my work. I've tried lots of different materials as stencils, but I had never thought to use cardboard. Karmien Bowman uses cardboard for stencils to create lively imagery as...

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Video of the Week: How to Make an Elegant Wheel-thrown and Handbuilt Serving...

I've been making a lot of bowls lately, but I am feeling like I need to change things up with them. I am happy with the surface, now I just need to work on the form. For some inspiration, I decided to...

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How to Make a Textured Bisque Mold that Mimics a Thrown Piece

There are lots of ways to make molds in ceramics, as you'll see in our newly revised download Ceramic Mold Making Techniques: Tips for Making Plaster Molds and Slip Casting Clay. And I love that I keep...

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Quilting with Clay: A Handbuilt Soft Slab Ceramic Wall Art Project

Ceramic artist Amy Sander's work, which includes functional pottery as well as decorative wall pieces, has the appearance of soft quilted fabric although it is made of fired clay. Today, Amy shares her...

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Videos of the Week: A Couple of Tips for Making Interesting, Repeatable...

In these video clips, Deb Schwartzkopf demonstrates how she makes the super cool bottoms of her cup forms with a slab and a bisque fired mold. She then skillfully attaches the base to a bottomless...

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Three Potters Share Their Best Sgraffito Tips, Plus a Bonus Video!

Sgraffito can be an impactful, dramatic way of decorating pots (like in Kathy King's plate to the left) or a more subtle way to add color or definition to a design (see Kristen Pavelka's plate below)....

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How to Make Delicate Translucent Platters with Porcelain Slip and Terra...

Think thin porcelain. Now think even thinner porcelain and you have the plates of Christina Bryer. These translucent plates are a slip-casting marvel but not nearly as impossible to make as you would...

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Pottery Video of the Week: How to Make a Textured Soft Slab Wall Plate

In today's video, a (much condensed) excerpt from his DVD Slabs, Templates, Textures and Terra Sigillata, potter Jeremy Randall demonstrates his signature texture making method, and makes a soft-slab...

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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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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Low 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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Make 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...

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A 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...

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Pottery 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...

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How 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,...

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