AI Pottery Studio

Every potter knows the wait. You pull a piece from the bisque firing, glaze it, load the kiln, and then find out days later whether the colour you imagined is the colour you got. Pottery Studio shortens that guess. TRACK EVERY PIECE Keep a journal of what you have in progress. Record the clay body, the firing stage, the cone, and your own notes, and move a piece along as it goes from designing to greenware to bisque to glazed to fired. Photograph it at each stage so you can look back at what you actually did — the part that is impossible to reconstruct from memory three firings later. SEE THE GLAZE FIRST Photograph a bisque piece and preview it in celadon, tenmoku, shino, ash, crystalline, raku or salt fired, in a range of colours. It takes a few seconds, and it costs you nothing but a preview credit — considerably less than a kiln shelf and a week of your time. BUILD A SHAPE FROM…