Another Clay Blog Review! Below you’ll find the best pottery blogging from the past month. Enjoy!

The Can’t Miss

What were the “must read” pottery blog posts during the past month?

• Pottery Making Blog: Clay Blog Review: March 2017
• zephyrvalleypottery: Smoothing the rough spots
• CARTER GILLIES POTTERY: Better pottery through accuracy and precision
• Big Ceramic Store: Tips For Judging Base Thickness On Thrown Pots
• Gary Jackson: Surface Decoration With Colored Slips
• Big Ceramic Store: Slab And Coil Method Large Platters On The Potters Wheel
• dicklehman: COLLECTED
• Liz Crain Ceramics: Spouting Off

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Welcome to the Clay Blog Review! Find some of the highlights from pottery blogs around the world. Another great month with some great blogging!

If you haven’t checked out the Pottery Making Newsletter, it might be something you enjoy. I skipped last month due to personal commitments but you should receive a new message soon. There may even be some exclusive content!

The Can’t Miss

What were the “must read” pottery blog posts during the past month?

• NCECA Blog: Saggar Firing in Metal Containers
• The Cloud Pottery: Make a thing a day
• April Noble Studio – Notes from the Journey: Triaxial Blend
• Big Ceramic Store | Blog: BCS Video: How To Throw Advanced Shapes – Bottles
• Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery: Stamped & Squished
• Big Ceramic Store | Blog: Waxing Your Pots For Glazing
• Matt’s Ceramic Action: Thesis Exhibition: Pyrosynthesis Writing

Check it out: I got to talk to Paul Blais on the Potters Cast! We talked about a number of subjects including this very blog and website! Thanks Paul! Find the episode here:  Art by Fuzzy | Brandon Schwartz | Episode 208

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Clay Blog Review – April 13

April has come and gone and it’s been another good month for the clay blogs. If you missed March here is last month’s Clay Blog Review. Also, all the links from NCECA 2013 are in the roundup, not here.

The Can’t Miss

• Graciela Testa Lynt shares how she does that when it comes to glazing striped mugs.
• DirtKicker Pottery keeps it simple trimming lids and throwing knobs.
• Glynnis Lessing gives a quick tutorial about fake wood texture.
• Joel Cherrico shares some thoughts on festivals and sales: Are They Worth It?
• Ang Walford shares images and a video of Tagines.
  
• Jemerick Art Pottery explains How the doubles were made.
• Meagan Chaney puts together a list of Raw materials needed for low fire glazes.
• Dennis Allen posts an Almost Silent Movie about grinding lids:

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