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Three Great Pottery Wheel Throwing Techniques: Tips on Throwing Complex Pottery Forms Using Basic Throwing Skills June 22, 2009
Full of great throwing tips, as well as ideas you can apply to any pottery project, these step-by-step instructions will help you improve your pottery throwing skills from concept through completion. Whether you’re interested in throwing complete pots on the wheel, like Dannon Rhudy’s citrus juicer; throwing textured parts for alteration and assembly, like Jake Allee’s stilted bucket, or if you’re simply interested in throwing larger pots right on the wheel, like Mark Issenberg’s tall vases, then wedge up some good throwing clay, pull up your throwing stool, and get that pottery wheel spinning!
10 Tried and True Cone 6 Glaze Recipes: Recipe Cards for our Favorite Mid-Range Pottery Glazes May 1, 2009
Good news cone 6 potters! We've gathered some of our favorite cone 6 glaze recipes in a convenient recipe-card format, perfect for printing and taking to the pottery studio. If you are interested in building a collection of beautiful cone 6 pottery glazes, you've found the perfect resource. If you've been low firing and would like to turn up the heat a bit, here's a great assortment of cone 6 recipes to start with. Or if you have grown bored with your current cone 6 glazes, try out a few of these.
Emerging Ceramic Artists to Watch: New Pottery and Ceramic Sculpture April 7, 2009
With so much incredible ceramic art being created today, it becomes difficult to know where to look for new up-and-coming ceramic artists-there are just so many! To help you begin sorting through all the great ceramic artists at the beginning of their careers, we’ve put together. Emerging Ceramic Artists to Watch: New Pottery and Ceramic Sculpture as a free gift. These fourteen ceramic artists are making exciting new work you shouldn’t miss. Inside, you will find images of their work, statements in their own words about their motivations and inspirations for their ceramic art, as well as their career plans and insights about becoming professional ceramic artists.
Buyers Guide to Ceramic Supplies and Materials February 6, 2009
For the ceramic artist who needs supplies, the 2009 Buyers Guide to Ceramic Supplies and Materials is the place to look. If you're looking for ceramic supplies, glaze materials, ceramic equipment, or clay tools, the Buyers Guide lists nearly 300 companies offering tools and supplies. You'll also discover information on raku clay, raku glazes, underglazes, raw materials for glazes, what you need for glaze supplies, what to look for when buying a raku kiln or an electric kiln, and more. And it's yours free when you subscribe to Ceramic Arts Daily.
Ceramic Workshop Handbook: Pottery Tools and Ceramic Studio Resources September 7, 2008
The Ceramic Workshop Handbook: Pottery Tools and Ceramic Studio Resources is full of handy clay tools you can make in your own studio, as well as ceramic studio resources and technical references on forming, surface decoration, firing and materials. It also has a comprehensive directory of U.S. manufacturers and suppliers that provide ceramic equipment, raw materials, clay tools and ceramic supplies. Whether you're a professional or amateur, student or teacher, the Ceramic Workshop Handbook is an essential pottery tool, like a wheel or a kiln.
33 Tried and True Ceramic Glaze Recipes April 29, 2008
33 Tried and True Ceramic Glaze Recipes is perfect for potters and ceramic artists who are ready to experiment with custom glazes, or for those who have grown tired of their own tried and true glazes. Don't waste time researching ceramic glaze recipe books or cruising websites when we’ve compiled a diverse selection right here in this handy clay studio resource - a must for your ceramics decorating arsenal!
7 Great Pottery Projects April 7, 2008
Pottery making has many rewards: the excitement of transforming a lump of malleable clay into something beautiful, the endless possibilities for ceramic surface decoration, the magic of the fire. All of these contribute to your experience with clay. If you’re like most potters, though, you’re occasionally stumped when you get into the pottery studio and find yourself unable to decide what to make. With “7 Great Pottery Projects” you will have no trouble coming up with new ideas.
