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Super Sunday 19th Feb 2017

Our first ever Ceramic School Super Sunday kicked off to a great start with two live online pottery lessons being broadcast to our Facebook Page. The first lesson was by Rainbow Bull Studios, who taught us how to throw bowls and mugs. The second lesson was by JustinCredible Pottery, who

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Letters from the Editors

Potty Potters 2016: Ceramics in Review

Special Thanks To All Potty Potters 2016 was a great year for ceramics… here’s a quick recap! To all you potty potters: Keep on learning, creating, potting & most importantly, having fun in the new year! ❤

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Get Inspired!

Katie Marks: Geometric Spacey Tie-dyed Lustres

Katie Marks (anotherseattleartist) has developed a wonderful technique to produce Tie-dyed glazed pots, with gold lustre on top. The Mugs and Jugs are wonderfully colorful, and a different take on decorating with lustres. Very Spacey. Very Geometric. Very Gold. Very much in LOVE. Take a look for yourself, and let

Advanced Ceramics

Jennifer McCurdy: How to create a beautiful Sculpture from a Vase

Jennifer McCurdy gives us a Fabulous demonstration on how she turns her Wheel-Thrown pots into Beautiful Organic Sculptures. So the next time you have a pot come off the wheel that you’re not happy with, why not try this out! Buy her new book “Vessels: A Conversation in Porcelain and

Clay Crafts

Guy Van Leemput – Porcelain slip balloon bowls

Guy van Leemput has a wonderful technique of placing coloured porcelain slip onto balloons. (You can learn how he does this in The Ceramic School Workshop: Guy Van Leemput – How to make a paper-thin porcelain bowl) Using balloons as a base allows him to create very thin and fragile looking

Get Inspired!

Best Inspirational Books for Potters

Pottery is a blast! Isnt it? You can create… literally… anything. Its one of those hobbies where you can build your dreams, and only your imagination can stop you. But what happens if your creative mind is having a day off? You know what I mean. You’re there in the

Get Inspired!

The Pottery Wheel Rap

Have you ever wondered how it would sound to beatbox teach wheel throwing? No? Well here you go anyway! We introduce you to… The Pottery Wheel Rap from Daniel Willis!

Beginner Ceramics

The 10 Best Pottery Tools for Beginners

Best Pottery tools for Beginners: Are you starting a pottery course and looking for the best pottery tools? Here we list the 10 Best Pottery Tools for Beginners

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History & Culture

Handmade: By Royal Appointment Wedgwood BBC Documentary

The Making of the Wedgewood Vase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnfQabxrEWU The film which follows the making of a Wedgwood vase. The culmination of over 250 years of expertise and heritage, the panther vase is handcrafted by artisan potters using the same techniques pioneered by Josiah Wedgwood in the 18th century. But the Wedgwood

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Featured Ceramic Articles

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Advanced Ceramics

How to Create a Chattered Texture

In this video, Jason Sonsthagen from FoxRiverPottery shows us how he creates a chattered texture on a mug. Little chattering on a fresh mug. #pottery

Artist Spotlight

Featured Artist Fridays: Julissa Llosa Vite

Julissa Llosa Vite is an exciting artist to watch, particularly for those interested in indigenous healing traditions and exploring ancestral connections. Based in New York

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