Are you always searching for pottery tips and inspiration? Me to! In fact I regularly scan a few hundred pottery blogs to learn more about pottery. You can see the best stuff that I find each month in the Clay Blog Review.
Below is a small sample of the pottery tips, videos and techniques from the pottery blogs in the past 12 months.
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1. Advanced Throwing Techniques
Are you looking to build your wheel throwing skills? Or maybe you are just beginning to throw pottery on the wheel? Here are some great ideas to try once you have mastered the basics of wheel throwing.
How To Throw Advanced Shapes – Bottles
Or maybe you want to add some interest to some basic forms?
2. Ben Carter’s New Book is Fantastic
Speaking of the pottery wheel, get Ben Carter’s new book to accelerate your progress. It is full of great information and pottery tips about throwing on the wheel. You can see a review here:
Mastering the Potter’s Wheel by Ben Carter – Book Review
Or purchase it here.
3. Dart Techniques
Have you ever tried taking out some clay to alter a form? Try your hand at this technique to enhance forms.
4. Pottery is Architecture
A summary of great thoughts from Chris Gustin.
Chris Gustin Workshop at Notre Dame
5. Making a Bowl with no Wheel
Don’t have a pottery wheel? Do you want to try hand building with slabs? Linda shows you how to do it.
6. Make a Mold on the Wheel
Did you know you can make a mold right on the wheel?
7. What’s the Volume?
Lori shows us how to start with the desired capacity and figure out the needed dimensions of a mug.
8. Handles!
Handles are tough to master. Lucy, Doug and Barb offer some tips.
10 Practical Considerations when Pulling Handles for Mugs
9. To Bisque or Not to Bisque
That is the question. Luckily, there are a lot of articles about bisque firing.
Resourcefulness – bisque in a raku kiln
10. Firing and Cooling Kilns
Some really great information, firing techniques, and don’t forget the importance of the kiln cooling.
Reducing confusion about Reduction
Saggar Firing in Metal Containers
Tip toeing to the cliff – cooling kilns
11. Tips for Pottery Tools
Take care of those clay tools and keep your studio organized.
How To Sharpen Ribbon-Trim-Sculpting Tools
12. Latex Resist
Latex can be quite useful in the pottery studio.
Liquid Latex For Design and Protection
13. Glaze Application Techniques
Here are a few ideas for applying glazes on pottery.
How to glaze the whole ceramic spoon
Pouring Glaze with a Ladle for Decoration
14. Glaze Recipes
You can never have too many glazes right?
Crystalline Glaze with Nickel Blue
Water Color Green (Steven Hill)
Copper Ash Glaze Recipe ( Steven Hill)
Time for a Christmas Eve Toast cone 6 watercolor green
PB (Plastic Bitrox) Liner for Cone 5 Cassius Clay
15. Glaze Tests
So many ingredients and combinations to test, so little time.
Basalt as Colorant in Celadon Glazes
Leaching Test for New Studio Glazes
The quest for a matt grey glaze continues
16. Glaze Tips
Glaze tips from some glaze experts.
You always need a little Chemistry- How’s your Glaze?
Converting a glaze recipe from PARTS to WEIGHT
What is in your store bought glaze or additive?
Complete guide to glazing pottery
17. Kaolin Comparisons
How many types of Kaolin do YOU have?
Campana Clear /Grey tests with variations in kaolin
18. Teach Them Our Language
Carter has a lot of great thoughts. No exception here.
19. Cool Projects to Try
Do you need a little break from cranking out pots? Take a look at these ideas.
20. Pottery Tips for the Studio
A variety of studio tips.
Rehydrating Hard Clay the Easy Way
Use of Ferric Chloride – Safety Precautions
21. Studio Recipes
Magic Water plus 5 Bonus Recipes
Better Kiln Wash and Wadding Recipe
22. Art for Fun AND Profit
We all love tips for making pottery. What about SELLING pottery?
Yes, You Can Make a Living as an Artist
23. How to Start a Pottery Blog
Now that you’ve seen some great pottery blogging, maybe you’re feeling inspired to start your own? I’ve started a series about planning, setting up and growing a pottery blog!
The Pottery Blog Series – An Introduction to Blogs
Share your own Pottery Tips!
Have YOU learned anything from the pottery blogs lately? Or do you have some pottery tips that are worth sharing? Don’t keep it to yourself! Post a link below.
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Thanks for reading and sharing!
Great collection – shall be browsing through these links – thanks 🙂
what a great resource, I have learned so much from blogs over the years, and thanks for including my post on making drape bowls
Awesome, awesome resources…just bookmarked and will take it bite size pieces so I can absorb all this information! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for this great resource! I have bookmarked and will be back many times over. You have done such a great job of listing all these great blog posts. I would love to learn more about the different types of clay and what they are best suited for.
I would like to know more about how to make pottery animals
Can’t wait to learn for your books and videos
I am teaching these days along with making pots and tiles- I send my students link to blogs all the time. The one we have used the most is the tip on wetting down that dry out clay. I tried it first with a bag that was very dry. It worked like a charm.
Can I use very very old liquid porcelain
Have you ever heard of holy water for potters? I think it helps with attaching handles. What is it made of? Thanks