Hand-made ceramics pictures

It is again (well almost) vacation, so time for (drum roll) handmade ceramics pictures. Why?

Next year a new NVK-Ceramics member guide will be released with all the affiliated ceramic artists form the Netherlands and Belgium (yeah!!). But that also means I had to go to work…

No, not to make new ceramic sculptures, but to capture my new work digitally. In this online world a significant part of making ceramics. And whoever makes his own ceramics, also takes his own photos.

DFB-Ceramic Bottle BirdI hear you thinking, “that you are taking your own pics, is really obvious“.

Okay, fair point, you don’t have to take your own photos. It’s hard enough to make ceramics. But I like to learn things by doing it myself. That is the nature of this beast. Continue reading Hand-made ceramics pictures

3 Ceramics Mystifications Unmasked

Making ceramics is magical, ceramics mystifications certainly are not. Ceramics and glazes are surrounded by a cloud of thick black smoke. And I do not mean the smoke when firing raku.

Copper Red EnamelTheory behind practice is often unnecessarily made very complicated. Because of ignorance, to impress? I have no idea, but it has always frustrated my quest for clear knowledge. Time for unmasking.

In this blog I grab three ceramics mystifications by the clay.. euh horns.

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