Making A Living With Ceramics

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Making a living with ceramics.

Making a living as a potter is not an easy road these days and if you want to succeed in the pottery business and make money you really need to make a good careful plan. Personalized ceramics can make you good money but you have to be good enough to just make the one piece not making several to make sure that one will come out okay. Here is a step by step guide that will help you make a living selling pottery. In today s post we have gathered some great advice from four successful potters that might just help you when making your plan.

Most of the potters on etsy that are making a good living are offering personalized and custom work along with made to order items which must look like the picture. We decided that if you could make this many bowls in 3 minutes every day for 12 hours a day 365 days a year you could acutally make a living as a potter. I spoke about the term traditional ceramics which will be the focus of this post it refers to ceramic products that are produced from unrefined clay and combinations of refined clay and powdered or granulated. Inspired by inflatable toys his ceramic pieces come complete with shiny surfaces seams and meticulously crafted creases.

But do realize you re going to make. This is the start of a series about how i ve created innovative pathways that have allowed me to make a living as a full time potter and small business owner. Learning to make bowls helped me learn to be patient even when i messed up six attempts in a row or didn t even come close to getting the clay right. Ceramics can be defined as a class of inorganic nonmetallic solids that are subjected to high temperatures for manufacturing use.

If you re going to make money with pottery as a viable living wholesaling is a wonderful option but it comes with the downside that you re going to make a bunch of things you don t want to for the most part. Jennifer poellot harnetty editor. Design a business plan. The secret to making a living as a potter i was out at john hartom s throwing some empty bowls for his yearly fundraiser and recorded this little throwing session.

It also tauget me to be confident. Making a living selling pottery is actually easier than you think. I learned to make ceramic bowls on a potter s wheel in school. This can get boring and if you re in it for the creative fun this might not be for you.

In this post ceramic artist diana fayt shares her trials tribulations and triumphs of making a living as a potter. Immediately after graduating college in 2010 i took out a small business loan to launch a pottery business. To kern this collection of childhood inspired art serves as a sort of time capsule.