Demonstrations and tips

Success is the result of hard work and dedication.

During the recording of the TeachinArt online classes, there are many tips and techniques that the instructors share with the online students. On this page we have a few links to our blog postings where you can see tips and techniques, but also some of the demonstrations.
Here below are two of the video clips that show hand-building techniques and some painting on tiles.

How to use pinching skills when the clay cracks

Paul demonstrates how to load the tip of the brush with paint for precision painting.

Pottery tips

• Tips for throwing cylinders and bowls (David Voorhees)
• How to wedge clay, Bull's head or Ram's head technique (Antoinette Badenhorst)
• Centering clay on the wheel (Antoinette Badenhorst)
• How to fix pottery cracks (Antoinette Badenhorst)
• Glazing tips for lidded bowls (Connie Christensen)
• How to make a plaster wheel bat (David Voorhees and Antoinette Badenhorst)
• How to preserve paper clay (Antoinette Badenhorst)
• Tips for pinching clay (Antoinette Badenhorst)
• How to prevent mug handles from cracking loose (Nan Rothwell)
• How to prevent S-cracks (Antoinette Badenhorst)
• How to do spiral wedging (David Voorhees)
• Tips for trimming porcelain (Antoinette Badenhorst)
• Use balloons for making porcelain bowls (Antoinette Badenhorst)

Woodworking tips

• ​Tips for cutting wood segments on the table saw with Bob Rundquist
  

​Demonstrations

• What is Neriage or agateware with Curt Benzle
  
• Bone china and soluble salts with John Shirley from South Africa
  
• Artist expression of dementia with Marie EvB Gibbons
  
• Natural coloring of wool in the Rocky Mountains
• Understand pottery glazing with Antoinette Badenhorst
  
• Throwing, altering and carving with Antoinette Badenhorst
• Wood firing kilns with David Voorhees

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