How to Prepare Colored Slips for Slip Trailing, Plus Lots of Slip Trailing Tips!
April 5, 2013
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,...
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How to Make a Square Baking Dish and Fill it with Rhubarb Crisp
April 3, 2013
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...
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An Easy Way to Transfer Imagery to Pottery
April 1, 2013
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Pottery Video of the Week: How to Make a Textured Soft Slab Wall Plate
March 29, 2013
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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How to Make Delicate Translucent Platters with Porcelain Slip and Terra Sigillata
March 27, 2013
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...
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Three Potters Share Their Best Sgraffito Tips, Plus a Bonus Video!
March 25, 2013
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...
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Videos of the Week: A Couple of Tips for Making Interesting, Repeatable Pottery Forms
March 22, 2013
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...
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Quilting with Clay: A Handbuilt Soft Slab Ceramic Wall Art Project
March 20, 2013
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....
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How to Make a Textured Bisque Mold that Mimics a Thrown Piece
March 18, 2013
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...
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Video of the Week: How to Make an Elegant Wheel-thrown and Handbuilt Serving Bowl
March 15, 2013
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...
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