Pottery Projects & Tutorials

Turn clay into beautiful pottery with these project ideas. We'll teach you how to shape and fire clay, as well as glazing and decorating techniques.
mini succulent planters
10 Unique Air Dry Clay Project Ideas
Pottery making kiln
Learn How to Put Your Kiln Into Reduction When Firing Pottery
Fire in a pottery kiln
How the Firing Process Turns Soft Clay Into Ceramic Pottery
Innovative Ideas for Ceramic Plant Pots
How to Make a Ceramic Plant Pot
A close-up of an antique marbled vase
Learn How to Perform Marbling With Clay and Slips
Mary Cargile working her Obvara pots during Raku pottery firing at El Camino Fundamental High School, Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 6, 2014.
Discover Obvara Firing Technique in Pottery and How to Use It
Kintsugi Pottery Bowl
What Is the Japanese Technique of Kintsugi?
Cup and tools on pottery wheel
Here's How to Throw a Basic Cylindrical Pot
Two potters wedging clay in preperation for throwing
Take Your Ceramics Studio to the Next Level
Close up of female potters hands making bowl
How to Bisque or Biscuit Fire Pottery
Pottery handles
How to Make Handles for Pottery
Mishima pottery
How You Can Create The Mishima Ceramic Technique
a slab-built pottery mug
How to Make a Slab-Built Pottery Mug
Sculpting clay on pottery wheel
How to Center Clay on the Potter's Wheel
A raku pot wreathed in smoke as it comes out of the combustion chamber.
How to Fire Raku Japanese Pottery
Woman loading ceramics kiln
Load a Ceramics Kiln Properly to Avoid Expensive Accidents
Cutting clay
8 Steps to Hand Build a Basic Slab Pot
Molding pottery clay
How to Recycle Clay Scraps Into Workable Clay
Sculptor at work
What Makes Slab Pots Unique?
Burnishing workshop of the manufacture nationale de Sèvres.
How to Burnish Pottery - Follow an Ancient Tradition
Red clay prepared for pottery students
Learn How to Make Clay Slabs for Hand Building Pottery
Ceramic stains can also be used as washes, not just for lines.
How to Use Ceramic Stains on Bisqueware
Cropped hands of potter painting ceramics on table in workshop
Learn 5 Different Methods for Painting Pottery