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March 17, 2010
Scratching the Surface: The Terra Sigillata Clay Tile Paintings of Jenny Mendes
Not even Jenny Mendes herself can explain the mystery of how her imagery makes it out of her subconscious and onto her clay tile paintings. But she can explain the technical details of scratching her drawings into moist clay and layering various colors of terra sigillata to create her rich illustrations. That's exactly what she does in today's post. Enjoy!November 9, 2009
For today's post, I thought I would share an excerpt from our new free download How to Design, Make and Install Ceramic Tile Murals and Mosaics. In this excerpt, I am presenting a cool technique that Jerry Goldman came up with to make custom ceramic tile mosaics. He started out making mosaics out of shards of commercially manufactured tile, but this method didn't provide him with the colors he desired. So he came up with his own method of casting slab tiles with slip stained with metallic oxides and commercial stains.August 19, 2009
Color Splash: How to Make Vibrant Bursts of Color on Pottery Using Ceramic Colorants and Slip
Annie Chrietzberg explains Lana Wilson's process for decorating pottery with colored slips and shares the clear cone 6 glaze recipe she uses to finish these pieces.May 29, 2009
Ceramics Decorating Video: Decorating Pottery with Colored Slips
Mitch Lyons returns today with an excerpt from his full-length DVD Handbuilding with Mitch Lyons. In it, he shares some great ideas for decorating pottery with colored slips.April 22, 2009
Slip, Engobe, or Underglaze? Robin Hopper Demystifies Three Common Pottery Materials
Today, Robin Hopper explains the similarities and differences between slips, engobes, and underglazes and gives some ideas for how to use these materials to decorate pottery and ceramic art. Plus he shares three recipes for basic engobes.March 18, 2009
Patience, Patience: Using Slips and Stains to Add Detailed Decoration to Bone Dry Ceramic Sculpture
Ceramic sculptor Scott Ziegler's shares his unconventional ceramic decorating technique using cone 6 slips and commercial stains and explains how he arrived at this process.February 4, 2009
Freeze Frame: Using Photography to Capture Inspiration for Ceramic Art
Today, we'll see some of ceramic artist Lee Akin's photographs and learn how he uses stains, glazes and underglazes to create surfaces inspired by his photographs. Plus, Lee shares some of the slip and glaze recipes he uses to achieve the effects that he wants.December 5, 2008
Slip clay with very high iron content, often used as brown colorant for claybodies.October 8, 2008
Creating Nerikomi Blocks: Decorating with Colored Clay Patterns
Before your fearless Ceramic Arts Daily co-host Jennifer Harnetty went on maternity leave, she compiled several features, like this one, that she thought you would enjoy while she was out. It's like she packed us all lunches for several weeks. Something tells me she's going to fit the role of Mom really well. In this feature, Faith Rahill walks us step-by-step through the creation of a colored block of clay that she slices and uses as an inlay pattern on a platter. This is one of those techniques that is simple and straightforward, but requires a lot of attention to detail. Luckily, Faith covers all the bases for us so that we can plan for success. Enjoy!August 18, 2008
Layering Commercial Underglazes and Silk Screened Images to Create Contemporary but Rustic Ceramics
Inspired by 16th-century French potter Bernard Palissy, whose creations swam, slithered and crawled with creatures from nature, John McCuistion uses modern ceramic tools to create platters that evoke the same rustic flavor as Palissy's did hundreds of years ago. John layers commercial underglazes and silk-screened images and then uses a unique washing technique to create his rich surfaces.February 25, 2008
Mixing it Up: Using Stains and Underglazes to Create a Patina
The bold, expressive line work and warm color palette of Rohrersville, Maryland, artist Hunt Prothro’s work are born out of visits to Paleolithic cave sites in Southern France. Susan Chappelear recently attended a workshop given by Hunt Prothro at the College of Southern Maryland and gives us these details on how Prothro creates his beautiful patina.
