​I had several people asking me how I create porcelain vessels over a balloon. Some potters create these vessels with slip, some create them and it leaves thick patches. In this video, I show you how I create them to where they are perfectly smooth. It can be used for sculptural, as well as functional work.

​ Once the bowl is removed from the balloon, the placement of a foot rim can be marked out and a coil, pinched or wheel thrown rim can be placed on the bowl. This can be a small foot rim or a tall pedestal. Click the button below to see and read more about foot rims

Below are links to some of the online workshops that Antoinette Badenhorst presents. Click on the button to go to the content and registration page. ​

 A slab of clay can be easy to make, but potters are not always successful, because they do not always follow the rules. Click the button below to see and read more about making slabs. ​

It all depends on what you do and how you want to present it. Click on the link below to learn more about the hand building dinnerware e course.

​Learn to understand glazes and glazing techniques so that you can become more successful as a potter. When you learn how to fix, how to apply and how to decorate with your glazes, nothing can stop you from becoming an excellent ceramic artist.
​One of the methods that will be addressed is majolica, but when majolica techniques are applied to a cone 10 glaze, it becomes something different.

​In the same way that clay is pinched to stretch it out and to make it thinner, it can also be manipulated to change its form and  become thicker. It takes an understanding of what happens to the clay particles.

How to use your pinching skills to create a pinched teapot. 

This video of Antoinette was recorded during her hands-on workshop at the Pottery Studio in Bryanston in South Africa. She shows how to throw a big porcelain bowl on the pottery wheel, add more clay to it, cut and carve it and alter it to get translucency. ​Carving can be done from wet to bisque. Make sure the tools are right for the clay stage. ​

​Antoinette's Gallery, hands-on workshops and e-courses
All our e-courses at ​TeachinArt.com online art school
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​Porcelain clay demands just as much technique and maybe more. It is not so much that the Diva wants to be difficult, but you know she is a water addict right? That means she will drink in as much water as quickly as she can and just when you think she is satisfied, she collapses on you!

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Centering clay on the potter’s wheel is one of the first, and by far the most important activity that any potter must learn before it is possible to throw a pot.​​

Most beginner potters are so eager to start throwing, that it take some time to realize the importance of good centering. Some potters will lose interest at this stage and strictly concentrate on hand building. Others will end up with an injury or have difficulty to recover from bad habits.
There is not just one good way to learn to center clay, but there are good ways and bad ways. An understanding of what happens on the wheel will help to find the best way.
In this video, I am explaining to you what is happening on the wheel during the centering of clay and teach you my way. Enjoy!

TeachinArt is our online school where artists and potters can learn from the quiet of their own studios and where they get an in depth understanding of Antoinette's classes. You have direct access to the instructor while you study with her to ask questions. 

​Antoinette Badenhorst and David Voorhees are professional potters with a combined experience of almost 80 years in teaching potters how to work with clay. ​

 
​Buying pottery wheel bat systems are expensive, but you can do it yourself (DIY) in your studio.
Mima Boskov from South Africa helped us to improve the system! Read more here.


See Antoinette's work and workshops at PorcelainByAntoinette
See list of e-courses at ​TeachinArt.com online art school
See Antoinette's blog index

Clay wedging is explained and demonstrated in one of Antoinette's online classes. Students learn in these porcelain e-courses how to wedge clay, throw on the wheel, trimming techniques, hand building and many more about porcelain, the Diva of clay. This video that shows how Antoinette wedges clay is a snippet from one her e-course "Understanding Porcelain" ​

​Throwing porcelain, altering porcelain, pinching porcelain and understanding porcelain are all elements of the "Diva" of clay that are included in the online porcelain classes of Antoinette Badenhorst. Students learn to push their own limits and are challenged to show the translucency in porcelain. Video clips show workshops in Canada, South Africa as well as snippets from porcelain e-courses that Antoinette presented.

Antoinette taught classes in Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and France. Her classes in several countries in Europe for 2020/2021 was  unfortunately canceled due to COVID. 
She is currently continuing to teach online. See her classes at TeachinArt