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7 Superb Slip Trailing Videos

June 26, 2017 by Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz 3 Comments

slip trailing

A selection of slip trailing videos showing a range of possibilities and inspiration.

Learn more about slip trailing here!

Charan Sachar

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Filed Under: Techniques, Videos Tagged With: ceramics, clay, information, making pottery, pottery, pottery making, resources, slip trailing, techniques, videos

Clay Blog Review: March 2013

April 2, 2013 by Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz Leave a Comment

Highlighting the best of the clay blogs… in case you missed something! If you’re new here, you can also take a look at the February or January Clay Blog Review.

Ah, March. A month full of lions and lambs, and NCECA, and Madness, and green beverages and even some eggs. Not to mention a bunch of great pottery blogging! Thanks to all of those great bloggers for sharing so much with the rest of us.

The Can’t Miss

  • Dennis Allen shares his favorites during Tool Time.
  • Carole Epp lets guest writer Melissa Monroe Talk about Wholesale Markets.
  • Lisa gives a great overview about Slip Trailing.
  • The Beads of Clay Blog has a tutorial about Making A Porcelain Flower.
  • DirtKicker Pottery shares a quick corn starch and stamping clay tip and how she tried an underglaze wash.
  • Lori Buff finishes part 3 of her teapot demo Spout and Handles and part 4 Adding Attachments.

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Filed Under: Clay Blog Review, Online Community Tagged With: 2013, blogs, ceramic artists, ceramics, clay, clay community, links, March, potters, pottery, pottery blogs, videos

Pottery Wheel Galaxy Wallpaper #1

March 22, 2013 by Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz 2 Comments

Another installment of pottery wallpaper. Not the paper that goes on actual walls, backgrounds for your computer or tablet! Now with a high-resolution iPad 3 version!

pottery wheel galaxy 1

pottery wheel galaxy 1

Image of hands at the pottery wheel by Amanda Schwartz. Image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 by NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA. Images combined and modified by Brandon Schwartz.

Use the links below to find just the right dimensions for your screen or device.

1366 x 768

1680 x 1050 (1440 x 900,  1280 x 800,  etc.)

1600 x 1200 (1280 x 960,  1024 x 960,  1024 x 768,  800 x 600,  etc.)

1280 x 1024

2048 x 2048 for the iPad 3, 2?, 1?  (or use it to crop to your own specific dimensions).

Thanks for checking it out. Stay tuned for a few more wallpapers with a similar theme or check out some previously released wallpapers.

Creative Commons License
Pottery Wheel Galaxy 1 by Brandon Schwartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0501a/.

Filed Under: downloads, wallpaper Tagged With: clay, desktop background, downloads, free stuff, galaxy, images, pottery, spiral, wallpaper, wheel

How to Recycle Clay

September 22, 2012 by Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz 5 Comments

Intro to Recycling Clay

clay drying on a plaster slab

clay drying on a plaster slab

You can recycle clay, or reclaim clay, so it can be used again. Many potters keep their non contaminated (21) clay scraps from trimming, broken greenware, or old throwing slurry (3) to recycle and reuse. As long as clay has not been fired it can be recycled (10, 21). It can be a time consuming process (2), physically demanding and take up a lot of space (14) but it doesn’t have to be an unreasonable amount of work (3). Plus, recycled clay is clay that you don’t have to buy! As the old saying goes, there are about as many ways to recycle clay as there are potters. Many variations are presented below. Find the process that suits your situation the best. Of course, if you have a pugmill, recycling clay can be a lot easier (20).

Safety

The most notable hazard with recycling clay is breathing clay dust from dry clay (11). To be safe, wear a good quality respirator mask and eye protection (14).

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Filed Under: Articles, How To Tagged With: clay, diy, information, maintenance, original article, reclaim clay, recycling clay, saving money

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