Advanced Ceramics
How To Decorate Ceramic Flower Pot Rims
5 different ways of decorating ceramic flower pot rims
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SIMON LEACH Throws an egg!
How To Throw an Egg? The amazing Simon Leach – from Simon Leach Potteries, author of the fantastic book “Simon Leach’s Pottery Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Throwing Beautiful, Functional Pots” – shows us the process of throwing an egg-shaped closed vessel. Why not have a go yourself this week,
Advanced Ceramics
Primitive Technology: Creating a Forge Blower
Wow, just wow! This guy is amazing. If i didn’t have an electric kiln I would be building my own wood fired kiln, creating about 10 of these and inviting some friends over to help fire the kiln… amazing! He even makes some Iron at the end just to test
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Michael Casson – The Craft of the Potter – Throwing
Michael Casson was one of the pioneers in the renaissance of studio pottery in the post-war period, a greatly respected and a charismatic teacher and educator who influenced several generations of potters. After reading Bernard Leach’s 1940 A Potter’s Book, Casson responded positively to its concept of unity and wholeness,
Advanced Ceramics
How to roll a foot on a bowl and cup
A short video demonstrating a super simple way to “roll” a foot on to a small bowl and a cup, instead of turning it. Have you seen or used this technique before? What do you think of it?
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Coil building in Gakoigo pottery village
I love two things about this video: 1) The clay they are using looks exceptional; a coarse and plastic body, which they handle very wet. The addition of extra water during the building process makes the process akin to throwing. 2) They are using this wet clay to build upside
Handbuilding
Traditional Handicrafts of Jingdezhen
Feel the magnificent craftsmanship of traditional Jingdezhen porcelain. From the harvesting of Kaolin clay, purification, molding, outlining, painting, glazing to the building and firing in the 1300 C kiln. A remarkable feat of Jingdezhen potters – and more exciting to watch than any action movie in the Cinema!
Beginner Ceramics
Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing – Throwing a Bowl
Throwing on the wheel can be very hard work when starting out. In fact, lots of potters say that the first 10,000 bowls you throw are just preparing you to really start! Here is a quick video from Tim See with some great tips to help you out if you
Advanced Ceramics
Creating Handmade Moroccan Mosaic Tiles
Have you ever made your own mosaic tiles? This short video shows you how you can make your own hand made Moroccan ceramic tiles. It’s stunning to think that after only a couple of steps, something this beautiful is made.The human spirit of design is so inspirational <3 Extra Bonus:
Advanced Ceramics
Throwing a Tall Long – Necked Vase
Hand thrown Tall Porcelain Vase, with Long Neck by Matt Horne Pottery, February 2016.Using Audrey Blackman Porcelain.Let us know what you think in the comments!
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Quintin Hubbarth Art
Industrial Pottery: These unique pieces are works of wonder. It’s as if the pieces have peeled away their clothing and have laid bare their uncovered
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Tony Natsoulas at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
Come with us as we see behind the scenes of the monumental exhibition Tony Natsoulas put together to honor fellow artist Clayton Bailey.
