This is the bare bones basics of working with clay. You’ll learn how to prepare your clay, what tools do what, how to make attachments and more.

If you’ve never touched a potters wheel or even if you just need a little refresher, this is the place for you. Here we will cover the anatomy of the wheel, helpful tools, and the basic techniques used to throw a cylinder on the wheel. These skills are the basic scaffolding used for all wheel throwing and are essential if you want to start making pots on the wheel.

This is a beginner level tutorial to make a simple mug entirely from slabs.

This is a tutorial for making a pitcher using altered slabs. Before starting this project make sure you have the ceramics 101 course under your belt.

In this project we combine pinch pots to be a creature or an animal of some kind. This is a great place to start if you're just getting into clay.

This is a compilation of mini tutorials to inspire and keep you trying new things!

This is a tutorial for making bottles on the potters wheel. This is a pretty advanced technique that requires a decent bit of skill on the wheel but give it a try!

This is a tutorial to make a luminary that also functions as a wax melter or oil diffuser.

This is a short tutorial of how to make your own glaze from scratch. This is not a tutorial on how to formulate your own recipe, but how to use a recipe to make a glaze that you found in a book or online. There is a short video as well as a slideshow going into more detail about what you'll need and how to read a recipe.

How to make a closed form like an egg or a sphere on the potters wheel.

How to throw and trim a basic bowl on the potters wheel.