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In her porcelain workshops at TeachinArt, Antoinette Badenhorst demonstrates how excessive water during wheel throwing can quickly cause porcelain clay - which she calls the “Diva of Clay” - to weaken and collapse.
Porcelain requires careful moisture control because of its fine particle structure and delicate balance between strength and softness. During wheel throwing, too much water can oversaturate the clay body, reducing stability and making walls soft, uneven, or unable to support their own weight. Antoinette explains how beginners often rely on excess water while centering and pulling clay, not realizing that porcelain absorbs moisture rapidly. As the clay becomes overly saturated, forms begin to slump, lose definition, or completely collapse on the wheel. In her demonstrations, students learn:
Through detailed online instruction, Antoinette helps potters understand not only how porcelain behaves, but why proper technique is essential for successful wheel-thrown ceramics.
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Antoinette Badenhorst interviews internationally respected ceramic artist Michael Schwegmann in a thoughtful discussion about functional pottery, craftsmanship, kiln firing, teaching, and artistic growth. Known for his expressive surfaces, wood firing expertise, and dedication to studio pottery, Michael shares insights into creative discipline, clay preparation, form development, and building a lifelong career in ceramics. This inspiring interview explores the philosophy, techniques, and passion behind professional pottery and ceramic education. Michael Schwegmann is an award winning porcelain artist who came from a heritage of craftsmen.
Through his porcelain clay processes he tells stories about tradesman, their tools and machinery. Empty paint cans become canvasses through which he stages the finished job and the worker. He opens up conversations with his patriotic objects about the US flag and military equipment. Bradley Gordon is a wildlife painter from Oxford Mississippi. He exhibited his colorful paintings in the Gumtree Museum of Art in Tupelo, Mississippi - the birthplace of Elvis Presley. His art is inspired by Japanese Pop Art and is enriched by his upbringing in the Mississippi Delta. Gordon studied at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and taught English in Taiwan and Japan.
Now he brings us Glazing with Ron Roy. After years of personal exploration of glazes, helping other potters to improve and fix faulty glazes, he offers an online class which will allow you to be directly in conversation with him about remedying glazes. Ron will show you step by step examples of how to use the free Insight program, a frontrunner of the Insight-live program. He will also share with you the follow-up Ron Roy Glaze book in PDF format.
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