Enhancing Clay Surfaces with Sgraffito, Mishima and Color
Learn about Mishima and Sgraffito decorating techniques. Create designs on leather-hard clay, bisque fire, and glaze with an AMACO LG Series low-fire transparent color glaze.
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Peacock Feather Effect with layering PC glazes
Certain glazes in combination will flux strongly and flow. Layering these active fluxing glazes with dots or stripes can make the flow a decorative element.
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Water Etching with Velvet Underglaze
Water Etching is a great way to give subtle texture to your ceramic work, but by using water etching and Velvet Underglazes together you can take your decoration to a new level!
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How to add photos or drawings to glazed ware using decals
Want to add drawings, logos or photos to your ceramics? Here's an easy technique that looks great!
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Fast Easy Tiles
Cookie cutters are a great way to make uniform tiles. Check out below how to make cookie cutter tiles that require almost no refining!
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Water Etching 1
Water etching is a way to get subtle texture on ceramics. Find out how to use shellac or another resist material to add texture to bone dry ceramic ware.
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Volumetrically Mixing Glaze
Using the mixable midrange AMACO celadons, this video demonstrates a simple method of creating new colors of glaze in an organized, measured method.
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Easy-to-make Appetizer Platters Using Recycled Materials
This FUN and EASY hand-building project is great for all ages and experience levels. Using Amaco Glazes along with assorted 'found objects' that would otherwise be slated for landfills, this simple, inexpensive project is a quick, creative way to make beautiful and functional serving ware.
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Carving Texture and Imagery onto Clay
Translucent glazes that break across the surface of your ceramic form look great on texture. One way to create a textured surface is by carving.
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How to make a handmade logo stamp for your clay projects
This How-To explains how to make your own logo stamp.
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Don't Slip! Joining Clay Without Slip
When joining two pieces of clay, you should always slip and score. You hear that all the time, but there is a trick that is shorter, easier and works even better than mixing clay with enough water to make a slip.
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Frozen Clay and Glazes
For artists in colder climates, the danger of freezing is real. What happens and how to bring your clay and glazes back from being frozen.
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