April 15, 2009
A Piece of Cake: Clay Applique Decoration on Functional Pottery
Potter Kari Radasch shares her technique for the applique decoration on her pottery. Plus she shares her clay, slip and glaze recipes.Already Registered? Please sign in.
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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 8, 2008
Melty Goodness: Using Gravity and Layered Glazes to Add Depth to Pottery Surfaces
Greetings Ceramic Arts Daily readers! Well, I blinked and the next thing I knew it was time to shift my daytime focus from playing peek-a-boo and changing diapers to sending newsletters and updating web pages. Yes, my maternity leave has ended and I have taken back the Ceramic Arts Daily reins from Sherman Hall (thanks Sherman for doing my job these last ten weeks!). It was tough leaving my little one this morning, but the blow was softened by the fact that now I get to start thinking about clay again. Today's feature is just the ticket to get me excited about being back at work. Ceramic artist Kari Radasch explains how she piles glazes with various melting points onto her ...November 19, 2008
Have you ever mixed or purchased a glaze, put it on a piece that you had been saving for that super-successful-surface-treatment that was going to take your work to that next level, break through that barrier you had been struggling against, make you rich and famous? Well, I have. I was living the good life in my head as I was glazing the piece. I was thinking of all the shows I was going to get into, all the awards I was going to win. Guess what—it didn't work. It's not that the glaze didn't work, it's that my expectations were so high that I could only be disappointed by the result. What I learned was that glazes ...November 10, 2008
One of the best ways to make a large, complex piece of work is to break it down into its component parts and tackle them one by one. Suddenly, it's not one big project, but several smaller projects that are not quite as daunting. In this first of a two-part series, Colorado ceramic artist Donna Rozman shows us a variation on this approach: how to start simple and end up with a complex result. Her technique for ceramic tile design is both simple and effective, and it's a great exercise in generating new ideas.
