This is installment number two of Pottery Making Wallpaper. Today’s background is a black and white vase. As a special bonus you can find both a wallpaper and screensaver version for the Nook.
600 x 760 (Nook Wallpaper)
black and white vase
600 x 800 (Nook Screensaver)
Black and White Vase by Pottery Making Info is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Ceramics group… pottery list… clay community… ceramic forum… Whatever you call them, you can find some really great sites that allow potters and ceramic artists to communicate with each other. Some are large and cover a variety of topics, some are small and specific. But many artists or potters benefit from becoming part of an online community. Whether it’s to seek advice with a certain project, share inspiration, extend their network, or just to connect with someone else that works with clay, a good community can be very valuable. Here you will find some online communities that are related to pottery and ceramics.
http://lsv.ceramics.org/scripts/wa.exe?HOME
At first, Clay Art might seem a little mysterious, especially if you’ve never been part of an email discussion group. You sign up at the LISTSERV page which will let you receive and send messages to the group. It has about 4000 subscribers and plenty of wide-ranging discussion. Messages are archived at potters.org and the yahoo group will also let you view messages but not post messages to the group. There are many clay experts that peruse the list and offer excellent insights.
http://ceramicartsdaily.org/community/index.php?/index
Ceramic Arts Daily is a great site for potters and ceramic artists. There are plenty of great resources and they recently added a discussion forum. It is well moderated, organized, and visually pleasing. There are close to 2000 members with many well known potters and ceramic artists.
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There seems to be a lack of pottery or ceramic art themed wallpaper (desktop backgrounds) on the world wide internet. Perhaps potters and ceramic artists aren’t exactly known for their computer usage? (I would politely disagree after checking the pottery blogs). Maybe they aren’t geeky enough to care about the background of their computer screen? Maybe there is clay smeared on their monitor so it looks like they already have a pottery themed wallpaper? Who knows…. But this problem will soon be a thing of the past. This will be the first in a series of pottery wallpaper!
speckled bisque
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Speckled Bisque Wallpaper by Pottery Making Info is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Feel free to use them however you wish. If you use them for a website or some other commercial purpose please acknowledge Pottery Making Info.
Pottery Making Info has undergone a number of small updates recently. Here is a quick rundown:
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Mixing a glaze powder with water allows you to apply the glaze to bisque ware quickly and easily. It is a relatively simple process. The main steps, in more detail below, include: measuring water, mixing the glaze powder with the water, sieving, adjusting viscosity or density and letting the glaze sit for a while before it is applied. There are many variations and some people execute these steps in a different order.
First of all, follow the instructions that came with the glaze if you are using a premixed powder. Many commercially prepared glazes can now be purchased as dry powder in 10, 25, or 50lb increments. Generally, dry glaze powder is formulated for dipping and pouring, while premixed liquid glazes are formulated for brushing (3,20). The following instructions assume that you have a glaze in dry powder form which is mixed well and ready to be mixed with water. If you are not using a whole batch of premixed powder make sure it is mixed well before taking part of the powder to mix with water. Some of the glaze ingredients might settle to the bottom of the container during transport (20). There are also many suggestions for keeping the glaze suspended in water or improving brushability. These suggestions include Flocs (7), bentonite (3,11), epsom salt (13), brushing medium (10), CMC (11) and Macaloid (13).
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Clay Art Web Guide
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The Clay Art Web Guide is a large collection of ceramic and pottery links. In it’s own words:
Clay Art Web Guide is a leading online ceramic portal serving the clay art community since 2000. We serve over 20,000 visitors a month on a wide variety of clay related topics in over 60 categories with more than 3,000 unique listings.
Submitting a site requires a one-time payment and the directory seems to be well maintained so visitors don’t have to sort through a bunch of worthless links. Links are sorted into categories and usually presented in order of submission date, most recently submitted sites are first. A few of the larger categories seem to have sites listed alphabetically.
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Pottery Making Info is easing into the world of Social Media. If everything is working as it should, you will see some links in the top right corner of each page. There is a link to the Pottery Making Info Blog (or “news section”) and a link for the blog’s RSS Feed. The other two links will take you to the Facebook and Twitter pages for Pottery Making Info. One of the goals of this site is to provide information to the pottery making masses and Facebook and Twitter seem to be great tools to help achieve this goal. So if you already have a Facebook and/or Twitter account you can stay up-to-date with what’s happening at Pottery Making Info.
There is now a list of all the blogs found in the Potter and Ceramic Artist Feed. There will be more blogs added to the feed and list as they are discovered. If you know of a ceramic artist or pottery blog you can submit it here. The only requirement to be included in the feed is that the blog be mostly about potter or the process used to create it.
New logo for Pottery Making Info
A temporary logo has been created for the site. When there is more time and more important things are finished, it will be improved into a more exciting and attention grabbing image. Perhaps something with flames?
If you have any suggestions leave a comment below.
Or go to the Facebook or Twitter page!
A new feature has been added to Pottery Making Info. It is an RSS feed of potter and ceramic artist blogs. It combines the feeds of many blogs by potters and ceramic artists into one continuously updated stream of information. It would be similar to what you would get if you subscribed to a bunch of artist blogs with a feed reader like Google Reader.
The initial goal of this “working artists” feature is to provide an easy to access source to show what other artists and potters are doing. Whether it be for inspiration or to learn a thing or two from other artists and potters, you should be able to find the freshest clay work from around the globe.
If you, or someone you know, work with clay and you would like to add a blog to the feed contact Pottery Making Info. Include the artist’s name and the blog address. There aren’t a lot of requirements. Your blog should be mostly about your process or the finished work you create as a potter or ceramic artist. Your technique, materials, firing method, post frequency, blog software, experience, skill level, or location do not matter.
Eventually the blogs and artists will be listed on the site so it will be easy to see which blogs are already included. There are also some Pottery Making Info graphics in the works so be on the lookout…
NCECA is the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (facebook page). Every year there is a huge conference for educators, students, artists, and industry-type people. This year the 44th annual conference was in Philadelphia from March 31 – April 3.
Here you will find links to analysis, reviews, pictures, and stories from the 2010 NCECA conference.
Clayart: Kelly in Ohio, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Antoinette, Bill, Lillian, Cheryl, Dolita, Tony,
Potterybasics (you must be a member of the group to view): Nancy, Dana: day1, day 2, day 4,
Flickr: tagged with “nceca”, recent search results for “nceca”, woodfirer, May Luk, zapoldesign, niso30, odhusky, earline_green, j_bussman, libbyrosof, funcpottr,
Rachel Campbell’s site, Party at Steve Tobin’s studio, Linda Stauffer’s site, Pre Conference by Dave Thomas, Chris Morgan,
PotteryBasics (you must be a member to view): NCECA Philly 2010 album,
slideshow, Kim Young Soo, cup sale, dis/arming domesticity exhibition, opening ceremony, Baltimore Clayworks Exhibit,
Twitter: NCECA on twitter, tweets about NCECA,
Facebook: posts about NCECA,
Social Networks, The Clay Studio: List of exhibitions, Flash and Ash,
Mary Obodzinski: day1, day2, day3, post conference, Ceramic Thought, Christa Assad, these2words, sawdust & dirt: nceca envy, glen adamson part1, part2, Slipcast, Harmony Chapman, Meagan Chaney, Pinchpots, Pots & Dishes, homefry sketchbook, Adam Yungbluth, Art for Non-art Students part1, part2, The Art Blog part1, part2, Connie Norman,
Surely there are more reactions, pictures, and accounts of this great event. If you know about a 2010 NCECA link that is missing leave a comment or contact Pottery Making Info.
In the past few weeks Pottery Making Info has made a few small changes.
There is now a Links page with a number of good links to ceramics and pottery sites. In the future more links will be added to this page and more specific link pages will be created. If you have a site that could be added to the link pages contact Pottery Making Info.
A small script has been added to some of the pages and at the bottom of the blog posts called Sociable. It should make it easier to share interesting things you find here on popular social sites. For example, if you want to tell all your friends on Facebook that you think this update about Pottery Making Info is really cool, you could click the little Facebook square at the bottom.
There have also been a few small cosmetic changes. The “greater than” bullets that used to show up in the news section are now gone and the news section looks more like the rest of the site.
More changes are on the way.
