Online Workshop
“This workshop has been a game changer. The mechanics you demonstrate are smart, simple, and totally worked for me. A great experience!”
Throwing big pots doesn't need to be harder than throwing small pots!
With the right strategies, any potter with intermediate skills can scale up. You don't need to be particularly strong, you don't need years of training, and you don't need extraordinary talent.
This course is for you if you want to expand your skills, explore the visual and emotional impact of larger ceramic forms, and elevate your pottery-making to new levels.
During this 10 lesson course with videos and written instructions, I will teach you how to build pots of any size in increments you can comfortably handle. The principles and strategies of this course can be adapted to anyone's skill set and physical capabilities. I have condensed all the essential information into a single online workshop where I'll show you everything you need to start making awe-inspiring vessels in your own studio.
Learn how to scale up and create stunning ceramic pots in my
step-by-step online course!
Rewatch the videos as many times as you’d like!
This step-by-step, professionally-filmed tutorial is an investment with a big return. Compared to the thousands of dollars you might spend traveling to an in-person workshop, taking a college course, or struggling for years while you find your way (as I did), this is an amazingly inexpensive and fast game-changer.
The first big pot you sell will pay for it many times over. And you will have the personal pride and satisfaction of knowing that you can make extraordinary work at any scale you like.
I cannot imagine a more effective way to support your development as an artist, or a more gratifying way for me to give back to a field and community I love. I can hardly wait to see what you make!
Some of What You'll Learn
What to look for in a clay body that will help you, not hinder you
A simple way to condition your clay to make it easier to center and throw
Ergonomics to minimize muscular effort, avoid injury, and put gravity to work for you
Centering large amounts of clay
Easily raising large walls
Force-drying with flame and air to speed the process
Making strong joins between sections
Design consideration and decorative details
Many potters dream of throwing big pots, but think the dream is out of reach.
I am proof that it is not. Even as a forty-year-old beginner (yes, I was!), I knew that I wanted to throw big. I didn't have access to a mentor for guidance, but over years of experimentation and research—and too many failures to remember—I found my way to techniques and strategies that gradually enabled me to make the vessels I envisioned.
In my workshops, I have seen countless other potters succeed in scaling up with the techniques and strategies I developed. Some had been professionals on the show circuit for decades, others had been throwing for less than a year. Some were teenagers, others were in their 70's.
This approach enables someone like me—an ordinary person who loves clay but has no formal training or exceptional talent—to make pots of any scale I wish. I hear back from students asking how to find or make larger kilns!
Ready to throw big?
“I came away from this workshop with new skills that translated to throwing at every size. Steve addressed potential problems and solutions I didn’t even know to look out for, from an in-depth discussion on clay bodies to working with tools, to using my body dynamics to my advantage. I feel freer as a potter.”