Handbuilding with clay is fun and easy with amazing results. Join me on Wed and learn a handbuilding technique that will open the door to many different projects. Using your imagination, you become the designer of each and every piece, whether it is short or tall, a bowl, vase or utilitarian vessel, you are in charge! The different options for feet will also be discussed. Once you learn this project of how to give a bowl a round bottom and add height while working with a slab of clay you will be on your way to creating fabulous original works of art that YOU created!

Added by: amy
Tags: Round Bottom Bowl
Date: 2013-05-23

"Precious Prints" - Capture handprints in fused glass! This process is a wonderful way to create a child's handprint keepsake, ornament, plate, or piece of artwork. Safe and non-toxic methods for taking prints of babies, children and adults will be shown. We will learn two different methods for capturing a print, and various ways to personalize, decorate and finish our print artwork. These are super-popular in my studio, especially around Christmas-time!

Added by: glasspalette
Tags: Precious Prints
Date: 2013-05-23

Learn to create wonderful “Pen and Ink” designs using a liner brush and fired product. In this video we will focus on the proper use of a liner brush and by the end of this video you will have more confidence in your abilities with this brush.

Added by: arlenedee
Tags: Pen INk
Date: 2013-05-10

Join Tim and Jon Productions for this unique webinar performance. Jon will demonstrate some traditional print making techniques along with some more modern methods. Jon will also demonstrate how you can manipulate your glass and turn it into more functional pieces.

Added by: timnjonproductions
Tags: Innovative print making
Date: 2013-05-02

Join Michael Harbridge for en exciting webinar on combining clay, glass and raku! See how to create the clay shapes, add textures, glass reservoirs, fire, glaze, add glass and finally raku fire. The results are outstanding and no two are the same. The live show is on April 17th, but even if you can't make it that night, sign up anyway. The show is recorded and anyone who registers in advance gets the recording at no additional charge. You also get complete written instructions

Added by: mike
Tags: Raku
Date: 2013-04-18

Let Barbara Tilley show you how to make amazing jewelry pieces using stain glass supplies. With an inexpensive craft soldering iron and stain glass foil and solder, you can make beautiful settings for your fused glass. Learn how to foil your piece and apply solder and attach to jewelry findings. Simple step by step directions will having you making incredible settings that will take your fused glass jewelry to the next level.

Added by: btilley22
Tags: Jewlery Glass
Date: 2013-04-11

You become the designer as you decide how to divide your slab of clay into quilt shapes. Use your own pattern or one of the popular quilt designs like the Log Cabin. It is all a possibility. This project is a great way to explore textures by using stamps, leaves, lace or other found objects. It is also a great way to use up the almost empty bottles of glaze. The design can be as simple or as complex as you would like it to be, depending on your skill level, making it a project for beginners too. I will walk you through step by step and even show you how to create shapes instead of the typical square. So get your rolling pins and stamps ready and join me for another fun and informational handbuilding with clay webinar.

Added by: amy
Tags: Quilting Clay
Date: 2013-04-05

Everyone knows the excitement, thrill, ; competitive nature Sports teams create. So why not capture that excitement and incorporate it into you're pottery painting? After all -- a "personalized keepsake" of say a Chip n' Dip dish, or hand-painted plate with your favorite Sports team logo on it is a delight to give or receive. Glazed ; fired Pottery is practical, useful, long lasting, and captures the thrill of any get-together. You will be the real hero at your next Super Bowl Party when family and friends see what you have created. (As long as your team keeps winning anyway!) Sounds hard or complicated? Not at all says Frank. He will show you how to search out the logo of your favorite sports teams and apply, size, ; transfer it to your pottery. It's easy, fun, and quite a lucrative endeavor for PYOP studios. (This is also a great theme or idea for your Kids Summer Pottery Art Camps which are just around the corner.) Frank will also cover a variety of decorating techniques you can incorporate on these "sports-plates" such as; spattering, "screen-print", masking tape, pencil erasers, and many other simple, yet effective decorating ideas. Hope to see you in the live Webinar. If you can't join us, you will want to sign up anyway because a purchased Webinar can be streamed to your computer to view at a later date. How cool is that?

Added by: FRANK
Tags: Sports Teams
Date: 2013-03-28

Come join Arlene where she will focus on showing how to create very unique backgrounds using many different tools! Which include making your own paper stencils; using purchased stencils, using rubber stamps, contact paper and much, much more. As usual Arlene has lots of great tips and techniques for you.

Added by: arlenedee
Tags: Background Magic
Date: 2013-02-28

Jon Dean and Tim McPherson are back and are going to show you how to work with Mayco's BRAND NEW STONEWARE line!! EVERYONE is talking about this new line of Stoneware -- Gorgeous new glazes, Amazing stoneware washes....but how do you use them??? Jon and Tim will show you how -- this will be truly NEW and EXCITING

Added by: timnjonproductions
Tags: Stoneware
Date: 2013-02-23

The Reed Diffuser is perfect project for anyone’s home, as a gift, perhaps even Mother’s Day coming up. This fun project using a variety of products and techniques, which you’ll be able to use for lots of other fused glass projects. Denise will walk you through the multiple uses of fiber paper; painting on glass techniques and more. Denise has been designing projects for studios for over 8 years and this is one of the customer ‘favorites’!

Added by: denisecgibson
Tags: Pocket Vase
Date: 2013-02-14

Join Michael Harbridge for an evening packed with many methods using applied textures. He will show you many ways to use products like Mayco's Sculpting Medium on traditional and not so traditional ceramic surfaces. Discover unusual items you combine with products to make extraordinary patterns and designs. You will find techniques for children and adults, right from the comfort of your home or studio.

Added by: mike
Tags: Applied Textures
Date: 2013-02-07

Everyone in the Pottery Painting ; Ceramic Business knows the excitement, thrill, and camaraderie children or adults achieve by applying simple handprints to pottery. After all - they make VERY unique and personalized keepsake’s, are a delight to give ; receive, are practical and useful, and capture a lifetime of memories ; fun! So with this in mind, why wouldn’t you as a Paint-Your-Own-Pottery Studio owner (or FUTURE avid entrepreneur) want to “make this process easier”, or expand your awareness and expertise with this very lucrative endeavor? That’s exactly what Contemporary Studio owners Frank and Jaque Kahanic thought when they were planning the next Wednesday Webinar. It didn’t take them long to say, “It’s a HIGH-five and THUMBS-up” to HANDprints - FINGERprints - and more! (Yes, they will cover FOOTprints as well.) For attending the Webinar you will receive all the colored pictures ; PDF files Frank will be showing to make your very own “IDEA CENTER” or “INSPIRATION-BINDER”. This Idea Center is specifically geared toward moneymaking ideas ; illustrations for Handprints, Fingerprints, and Footprints on ceramic pottery. This is a perfect “silent-salesman” that can be placed in your studio or taken to “Traveling Birthday Parties” or place of business. You will get over 150 colored photos of finished pieces and ideas to stimulate creative thoughts by simply using handprints, fingerprints, and footprints! - As an added bonus, will also receive an attractive and professionally done “Thumbs-UP Cover Sheet” for your Idea Center binder!

Added by: FRANK
Tags: Hands Down
Date: 2013-01-31

From Good to Great Our webinar this month will be a journey,...yes a journey, we shall take a simple attractive design and change it up adding more and more design functions to create a wow piece. We will explore how a variety of different outlining effects can change final look of a piece. How a background can enhance a project. How by adding fillers stroke here and there, will make a huge difference in the final project. This webinar is designed for all Fired Arts painters...from traditional to contemporary: for a student and for a teacher; for a novice and for an advanced painter. We will start with a basic design or two and then work on a variety of techniques that will enhance the final outcome. We shall start with that's a nice piece, to an awesome piece completed in one simple hour. So mark your calendar for January 23, 2013 for an evening of learning with David Hoff. Time will be 8:00 Eastern Time and 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time... Join us...

Added by: david
Tags: Great
Date: 2013-01-24

Join me for a fun-filled and informative evening where we will explore the art of "frit painting". Sometimes called "painting with light", this process allows novice artists and experienced painters to translate their ideas and designs into works of glass art. Perfect for pottery-painters and glass artists of varying skill levels. Mixing the liquid came, applying frits, creating multi-layer effects and firing will be discussed and demonstrated.

Added by: glasspalette
Tags: Liquid Came
Date: 2013-01-17

Take glass scraps, combine them with metal elements to create works of art in the kiln. This low-cost method is a great way to use up glass scraps or work with inexpensive window glass. Perfect for beginners or experienced glass artists because it uses limited glass cutting and simple metal elements. Best of all, these techniques can be fired in glass or ceramic kilns. Studio owners will love this easy method any customer can create.

Added by: mike
Tags: Glass
Date: 2012-12-25

Learn a brand new technique that I designed to bring to life a simple slab shape. I will take you step by step through the process so you will be able to implement this technique to any pattern! It is fun and easy to see how adding dimension to a flat slab of clay can completely change the piece. You become the designer as attachments are added to bring personality. Experience handbuilding with clay and find out for yourself how much fun and creative you can be with just a few inexpensive tools!

Added by: amy
Tags: Snowman
Date: 2012-12-06

Plan to join Arlene as she shows you how to create designs, enhance designs and create great backgrounds using "Crafter's Workshop Stencils". She will also share two great holiday designs that are so easy you will be amazed. These techniques are great for kids, customers or you too!!!! They are quick, fun and will be great for gift giving for family, friends or co-workers

Added by: arlenedee
Tags: Fundamentals
Date: 2012-12-06

Winter Post Card will be presented using two brushes and a sponge. A simple stencil pattern will be used and each of you will want to complete this project time and time again. We have a variety of attendees, therefore the paper work will be written twice once in EZ-Strokes and the second time in Concepts. I promise you will love painting this scene and you will find the project wonderful to teach. We have chosen a platter to work on since the project can be used during the winter months and upcoming holidays. The project will make a nice hostess gift that you have arranged your special homemade cookies on.

Added by: david
Tags: Post Card EZ Strokes
Date: 2012-11-15

Let Frank walk you through this project for the Christmas season. This video is a sure winner when looking for a "different" Holiday project to do as a "group-class" - or say for a "team-building" night with a gang from the office! This would also make a cool and EZ project to do at a "Holiday Home Party" while enjoying the festivities of the season with family and friends! Traditional and Contemporary Studios will find this eye-catching platter a terrific display piece for their counter, or a window display. The dramatic BLACK background is something a bit different than the typical "white" or clear-glazed backgrounds you often see everywhere. Frank will talk about (and provide) two completely different Candy Cane techniques for taking this Webinar. BOTH patterns are provided at no extra charge!

Added by: FRANK
Tags: Candy cane
Date: 2012-11-08