A selection of slip trailing videos showing a range of possibilities and inspiration.
Learn more about slip trailing here!
Charan Sachar
National Clay Week
Today kicks off National Clay Week… so get ready, get excited… get dirty!
National Clay Week Info
Head over to the official website to see all the great events and how you can participate. Including live Periscope broadcasts, collaborations, discussions and much more. If you haven’t tried out the Periscope app, find out more about the Potters of Periscope.
National Clay Week + Technique Tuesday
Technique Tuesday
To help celebrate and spread the word, I’ll be re-sharing things on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. I’m going to focus on pottery making techniques. So how about Technique Tuesday?! See below if you would like your images or videos re-posted on the Pottery Making Info social media accounts.
Clay Blog Review: July 2016
Welcome to the Clay Blog Review where you can find highlights from pottery bloggers around the world. Take a look below, visit some of these amazing blogs and learn more about potters and the pottery they make. And if you enjoy this list, be sure to follow Pottery Making Info on social media for some great videos, articles and links.
Big News:
This month’s CBR is brought to you by Modern Thrive, a site that offers amazing video courses for creative people. They have a new course called *Start a Pottery Business* which starts on August 17th. Don’t miss this! And as a special bonus, I’ll be offering a great discount in a day or two. Subscribers to the Pottery Making Newsletter get it first. Sign up now so you can save some cash!
23 Pottery Tips from A Year of Reading Pottery Blogs
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.
You can also sign up for the Pottery Making Newsletter to get some great pottery tips every month or two delivered to your inbox.
Below is a small sample of the pottery tips, videos and techniques from the pottery blogs in the past 12 months.
Clay Blog Review: May 2016
Welcome back to the Clay Blog Review. Or if it’s your first time, thanks for taking a look. This is where you will find some of the best pottery blogging from the past month. If you missed last month, you can go see the Clay Blog Review: April 2016.
May was a busy month for the pottery bloggers. Lots of great work coming out of the kilns, prepping for and attending festivals, wrapping up the school year, pictures of flowers and sunshine, and even a new book!
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The Can’t Miss
What were the “must read” pottery blog posts during the past month?
- Carol Clarkson Pottery Blog: Water Color Green (Steven Hill)
- Big Ceramic Store: Liquid Latex For Design and Protection
- Anna’s Ceramics: Wedding Favours – a technique using moulds
- Big Ceramic Store: Darts For Aesthetics
- Ceramic Artists Now: AKAR’s Yunomi Invitational Isn’t about TeaBowls… It’s WAY more Interesting
- Big Ceramic Store: Sgraffito in Terra Sigillata With BCS Customer Lisa Harnish – Part 1
- Barnbarroch Pottery: Mega making – the run up to Spring Fling
- John Britt Pottery: Great article on bisque
- CFile: Fashion | Hit the Block in a Pair of Porcelain-Inspired Sneakers
- Pottery Making Blog: Mastering the Potter’s Wheel by Ben Carter – Book Review
If you haven’t considered Ben Carter’s new book “Mastering the Potter’s Wheel” you should definitely take a look. It is fantastic!