Fun Pottery Projects
By Beth Peterson, About.com Guide to Pottery
Pottery projects help you build skills, have fun, and make useful and interesting objects.
Monthly Projects
Each month there is a new pottery project. These projects are geared to help you develop skills, explore new techniques, and push the envelope of how you work with the clay in your pottery studio.
- 2009 Monthly Project List
- How to Submit Your Work to the Project Galleries
- January 2009 Project - Pitchers
- February 2009 Project - Mugs
- March 2009 Project - Lidded Jars
- April 2009 Project - Underglazes
- May 2009 Project - Anthropomorphic Vessels
- June 2009 Project - Tableware Touches
- July 2009 Project - Pottery Lamps
- Plates for August - September
- Sgraffito for September - October 2009
- Pumpkin Pots for October - November 2009
- Footed Pottery for Novemeber - December 2009
- Hanging Decorations for December 2009 - January 2010
Hand Built Projects
Hand building is one of those things that every beginner can enjoy, and yet it still lends itself to masterful works of both functional and artistic merit. I hope you have as much fun hand building as I do.
- Make a Basic Pinch Pot
- Make a Basic Coil Pot
- Make a Basic Slab Pot
- Coil Build a Pitcher
- Coil Build a Mug
- Weave a Pottery Basket
- Slab Build a Pitcher
- Make a Slab-Built Heart Picture Frame
- Slab Build a Mug
- A Pottery Napkin Ring Demo
Throwing Projects
It is magical to watch and feel something take shape beneath your hands as you work on the wheel. Even when we are just beginning to get a handle on the skills, throwing can be be fun and relaxing.
- Throw a Basic Cylinder Pot
- Throw a Simple Vase
- Pottery Vases - A Gallery of Throwing Possibilities
- Throw a Flat-Sided Bowl
- Throw a Pitcher
- How to Thrown an Inset Lidded Jar
- How to Throw an Over-Edge Style Lidded Jar
- How to Make a Thrown Closed Form into a Lidded Jar
- Make a Thrown Table Lmap
Combination Projects
Many projects in pottery use multiple methods of forming or shaping the clay. Adding hand built or modeled parts to thrown pots can make even the most commonplace form suddenly unique and exciting. Adding thrown components to hand built pieces can lend elegance to hand built pieces. The possibilities are limitless.
