Clay is widely used in this world to make many things, such as vase, terracotta, urns, and many practical eating and cooking items too. Clay is also widely used in education. Many pre-elementary and elementary schools use clay as a media to enhance creativity in their pupils. The use of clay will trigger a child’s hidden creative talents so that they can express themselves artistically through the clay.

You can make many shapes that you like with a variety of pieces too. To help you make pieces of pottery, you need to have appropriately designed potter’s equipment, such as the potter’s wheels and self-hardening clays as well. There are many potters’ equipment that you can buy from the market but the best potter’s equipment is only available from AMACO/Brent that can be found at Amaco.com. This website is the only way you can buy the potter’s equipment, especially large items such as the wheel, slabs of clay, parts and instruction for the wheels. more…

Ceramic pottery art is an art of creating objects from a mixture of clays and water, polymer clays, or pottery glazes with various motifs and colors. When you plan to mold ceramic materials for your art works, please ensure all materials and equipment needed are available.

Firstly you have to choose good quality polymer clays. Polymer/ceramic clays are widely available in the market with various brand names, but in this post I recommend you to use clays from AMACO/Brent. There are some types of clays you can use according to your need, low fire clays, high fire clays, self hardening, and so on. Of course, the use of talc-free clays provides maximum results of baking or drying process. One more thing, always store the clays away from direct sunlight, high temperature, and dust. You can wrap it in wax paper or a plastic container.

For creating a more symmetrical clay object, you can use the potter’s wheels, whether electric wheels or traditional ones. In addition, you will also need some basic tools such as a smooth work mat, motive shaping tools, decorating pencils, poly roller, acrylic paints, metallic foils, and others, so that your work looks more professional. more…