Usually this amounts to using a knife or wire to cut off pieces of your workpiece to form several flat, relatively small, surfaces.
You can apply this technique to a leather-hard workpiece that has already been trimmed. You can apply it when handbuilding a piece. Alternatively, you can use it while throwing on the pottery wheel.
When you do that, the flat surfaces you create are distorted while throwing. Not an easy technique, but you can achieve very cool results with it.
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Want to create clean lines? What you need is (masking) tape. It helps you create perfectly straight colour blocks, even if you don’t have a steady hand.
Nothing tastes better than comfort food served on a homemade ceramic plate. It’s one of the most basic shapes in ceramics, but you can take it in so many different
Those who want more color in their ceramics have a lot of options. Two of these are oxides and pigments. The two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but they are
