Category Archives: Tutorials

Wheel Thrown and Altered Butter Dish Tutorial

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Denise

This tutorial comes from Lori Watts a potter in Augusta Main.  I ran into her pottery blog while researching  fine mess pottery blog. You can go directly to the post here: http://finemessblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/photo-tutorial-thrown-oval-butter-dish.html Photo Tutorial: Thrown Oval Butter Dish I start … Continue reading →

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Off Center Thrown Plates with texture

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Denise

This Tutorial was written by Lori Watts from Fine Mess Pottery.  Gotta love the name.  ”Its another fine mess you got me in”.  Isn’t that the story of clay! You can check out her blog post here: http://finemessblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/for-people-who-dont-like-to-center.html SATURDAY, APRIL … Continue reading →

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Below is an article from Ceramics arts Daily.  They have great Technological articles every once in a while about ceramics, clay, glazes.  They have great tutorials on working with clay and for mixing pottery plaster, well I wanted to preserve … Continue reading →

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Denise | Leave a comment

Celadon Like Glazes and Tiles

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Denise

What is a Celadon Glaze?  The answer as always in modern day, is it depends.  A long long time ago Celadon Glazes came from China.  The are transparent made with feldspars and have a light green blue color.  Theses glazes … Continue reading →

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Eutectics

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Denise

I am such a geek and am probably one of the few that cares about glazes that much to get all gushy over how temperature and melting properties of different materials force a unique occurrence where the combined effect is … Continue reading →

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Great Video ON HandBuilt Teapots

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Denise

This is from http://onetreehillpottery.com. They are are husband and wife duo from Australia, I got this video from the clayextruder yahoo group.

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THE Rutile Glaze

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Denise

IMG_2586, originally uploaded by miyCeramics Studio. As we start exploring in depth cone 6 glazes and start understanding how chemicals behave in the glaze matrix you can get some just gut wrenchingly beautiful effects. This picture is rutile brushed haphazardly … Continue reading →

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Track Back and Ping Back

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Denise

I am trying to figure out how these trackbacks and pingbacks work.  Lets see if I can get another blog I have to pingback this site.

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Rutile in Glazes

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Denise

Ode to the chemical guru’s on the internet: I was wondering if you might be able to help shed some light on some glaze issues or at least point me in a direction for research.  We inherited a lot of … Continue reading →

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AmeriTeve With Fernando Hidalgo and MIY Ceramics

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Denise

Can you say ceramica?  Tonight at 7pm MIY Ceramics will be live on the Fernando Hidalgo show.  It is your typical Latin flavor fan fare.  Girls in tiny glittering clothing shimmying around the stage, while men open button shirts and … Continue reading →

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