Handbuilding Video: Sandi Pierantozzi Demonstrates How to Use a Template to...
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Potters Council Handbuilding workshop in Atlanta, Georgia. As usual, the workshop was loaded with fantastic presenters and I came away with lots of...
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JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY… and receive the following DVD for FREE: 10 Great Tips & Techniques from the Masters, Volume II. This DVD features the following artists:Melisa Cadell, Philippe...
View ArticleWhat If? Explorations with Texture and Soft Slabs
In this installment of the Ceramic Arts Daily Presents Video Series, Sandi Pierantozzi demonstrates her soft slab handbuilding techniques, which she has perfected over the past 25 years. By showing a...
View ArticleHandbuilding: Texture + Surface
4 Great Handbuilding Techniques from 4 ExpertsIn this latest edition of Ceramic Arts Daily Presents, we treat you to a compilation of four handbuilding techniques excerpted from four of our most...
View ArticlePottery Video of the Week: A Super Easy Way to Get the Pulled Handle Look...
Handles were the bane of my existence for a while. I just couldn’t get them just right when pulling them. But I like the pulled look. Then I saw Sandi Pierantozzi’s “flat pulling” technique, which...
View ArticleHandbuilding Video: How to Make a Textured Tripod Pot with Soft Slabs
Today we are bringing back one of our favorite video clips from the CAD video archive. What I love about this DVD is that Sandi presents a wide variety of techniques that can be mixed and matched and...
View ArticlePottery Video of the Week: The Puffy Handle – Sandi Pierantozzi Demonstrates...
Pulled handles are lovely, but they are not the only option for creating great handles on your pottery. With a little imagination and skill, you can make successful handles in a multitude of ways....
View ArticleCircular Logic: How to Explore Shapes for Handbuilding
I find it challenging to go from a flat slab of clay to a functional vessel (probably explains why I mostly throw). It is just hard to picture what a two-dimensional shape is going to do when it's...
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Pottery Video of the Week: The Puffy Handle – Sandi Pierantozzi Demonstrates...
Pulled handles are lovely, but they are not the only option for creating great handles on your pottery. With a little imagination and skill, you can make successful handles in a multitude of ways....
View ArticleSubscriber Extra: Circlematic Form Finder
Handbuilding with slabs and templates can help you understand how flat shapes translate into three-dimensional form, make repeating forms, or find entirely new forms by combining differently shaped...
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From Slab to Grab: Creating Textured Handles
click to enlarge Texture in clay can be addictive. Who doesn’t love pressing objects into a piece of soft clay? And why stop at the handles? As Annie Chrietzberg demonstrates in today’s post,...
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Pattern and Fabrics, Pattern and Clay
Pattern and fabrics have been interconnected for millennia. From the materials that we cover ourselves with to those that are used in the home, fabric has been useful, even necessary, for survival....
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Nifty Nests: Using Kitchen Gadgets and Textured Slabs to Create Square(ish)...
Nesting Bowls, by Annie Crietzberg Annie Chrietzberg also loves to scour kitchen stores and garage sales for unique implements to use in the studio. Today, she shares a great little project out of...
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Circular Logic: How to Explore Shapes for Handbuilding
I find it challenging to go from a flat slab of clay to a functional vessel (probably explains why I mostly throw). It is just hard to picture what a two-dimensional shape is going to do when it’s...
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Roll Call: Seven Great Handmade and Store-Bought Roulettes for Adding Texture...
Nothing decorates a pot faster than rolling a pattern into wet or soft leather-hard clay. Whether you’re working on the wheel or with slabs, rolling a decoration is fast, easy, and adds visual...
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A Super Easy Way to Get the Pulled Handle Look Without Pulling the Handle
This clip was excerpted from Sandi Pierantozzi’s What If? Explorations with Texture and Soft Slabs, which is ON SALE in the Shop! Handles were the bane of my existence for a while. I couldn’t get...
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Clay Culture: Local Potters
Sandi Pierantozzi and Neil Patterson of Neighborhood Potters at the ribbon cutting for their new façade, September 2015. When potters put down roots in a neighborhood, they can make a lasting impact...
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Building Momentum: An Urban Pottery Tour
1 Four of the founding members of The Philadelphia Potters, from left to right: Michael Connelly, Ryan J. Greenheck, Sandi Pierantozzi, and Neil Patterson. The members of The Philadelphia Potters...
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Handbuilding Video: How to Make a Textured Tripod Pot with Soft Slabs
What I love about this DVD is that Sandi presents a wide variety of techniques that can be mixed and matched and turned into an endless variety of forms. Her message to viewers is to always ask the...
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