About Ceramics
Glaze
Recipes (Links
to other sites with glaze recipes)
Getting Started in Ceramics
Types of Firing: Oxidation, Reduction, Raku, Salt, Wood
Making your Own Glazes
Mixing Dry Glazes
Glaze Problems and Solutions (pinholing, crazing, shivering, crawling/creeping, blisters, settling-out)
Contacting Glaze Suppliers
National K-12
Ceramic Exhibition An Annual Competition and Exhibition for
K-12 Ceramic Students to showcase their Ceramic Art Works, and to
promote and encourage Ceramic Arts in the K-12 Education System.
Cones - how they work, and temperature charts
More information
on Cones and how they are affected by various firing conditions, how
to interpret the amount of bend, etc.
Safety in the Studio
Types of Firing: Oxidation, Reduction, Salt, Wood, Raku
How To Make Drip Free Spouts by John
Hesselberth*
Cracking and Warping: The Plague of (Nearly) Every
Potter, by John Hesselberth
Taking High Quality Slides of Your
Pots, by John Hesselberth
Pricing Kiln Rental
FRIT Comparison / Substitution Chart
Getting Started in Ceramics
How to Choose a Wheel
All about Commercial Glazes
Making your Own Glazes
Mixing Dry Glazes
Tips on Using Latex Resist
Using Stains
Masonite Bat FAQ by Northstar (good
info about all bat types)
* Articles originally published in Clay
Times Magazine.
Tip of the week
Tip #1: What to do when your clay is too dry
Tip #2: Attaching clay parts
Tip #3: How to solve glaze settling
Tip #4: Trimming pots that aren't quite leather hard
Tip #5: Making a Clay Bottle
Tip #6: How to Re-Glaze a Piece
Tip #7: Making Slips for Decorating
Tip #8: Miscellaneous Handbuilding Tips
Tip #9: Miscellaneous Decorating Tips
Tip #10: Recycling Clay
Tip #11: Using Resists
Tip #12: Decorating with Oxides
Tip #13: How do I get Started in Ceramics, or
What is my Next Step?
Tip #14: Using a Throwing Stick
Tip #15: Building a Sink Trap
Tip #16: Calculating the Cost of Firing an Electric
Kiln
Tip #17: Choosing the Right Clay Body (and all about
clay bodies)
Tip #18: Waterproofing and Sealing Ceramics
Tip #19: Recycling and Disposing of Glaze
Tip #20: Make
a planter from “solid” clay
Tip #21: Making your own pottery tools
Tip #22: Displaying your ceramic pieces
Tip #23: Design Technique Using Amaco Velvets with Slip
and Slabs
Tip #24: Commercial vs Home made Glazes
Tip #25: Glaze Tests and Test Tiles
Tip #26: Plates and Platters
Tip #27: The Art of Multiple Firings
Tip #28: Throwing Exercises
Tip #29: Commemorative Plates and other Items
Tip #30: Making Ceramic Tiles
Tip #31: Clay: the Drying and Firing Process
Tip #32: Impressing Patterns in Clay
Tip #33: Using Leaves
Tip #34: Why Glazes Don't Travel Well (Why recipes
sometimes don't work)
Tip #35: Understanding Glazes
Tip #36: A Collection of Tips (a random bunch of good
ideas)
Tip #37: Don't Lose Those Tools
Tip #38: Info You Might Have Missed on Our WebSite
Tip #39: Choosing a Bisque Temperature
Tip #40: Cracking, Crazing, Shivering and Dunting
Tip #41: Preventing Warping
Tip #42: Q&A on Pyrometric Cones
Tip #43: Ceramic Decals
Tip #44: Mixing and Pouring Plaster
Tip #45: Ways to Use Plaster Molds
Tip #46: Making Molds without Plaster
Tip #47: More Ways to Use Plaster
Tip #48: Loading and Firing kilns: Part 1, Loading
the Kiln
Tip #49: Loading and Firing kilns: Part 2, Firing
the Electric Kiln
Tip #50: Rolling Coils
Tip #51: Firing Reds, Yellows and Oranges
Tip #52: Are your Feet Falling Off?
Tip #53: Glaze toxicity and Dinnerware safety
Tip #54: Firing Glass (in your ceramic kiln)
Tip #55: Specialty Glazes, Using Surforms, and
Glazing Tips
Tip #56: Tips on Resists (Wax, Latex, Melted Wax)
Tip #57: Great Links
Tip #58: Tips for Painting Designs
Tip #59: A Collection of Tips
Tip #60: Impressing words with custom rubber stamps
Tip #61: 5 Things I Wish I Had Done From the Start
Tip #62: Terra Sigillata Primer
Tip #63: Decorating Store Bought Ceramics
Tip #64: Decorating with Fish Sauce
Tip #65: Monitoring Your Kiln from a Distance
Tip #66: A wealth of information on kilns and firing
issues on kiln manufacturer websites
Tip #67: All about Underglazes
* Articles originally published in Clay Times Magazine.
