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This a free online guide to glazing which give lots of good tips on spicing up the glazing game. The guide comes from a website that is all about ceramics, including videos, photos, guide, and much much more.

AMOCA stands for the American Museum of Ceramic Art, which has multiple exhibits and holds events, tours and workshops. The museum is in Pomona, California and is a great place to go to look at some nice pottery. There is a wide variety or mediums within ceramics and the exhibits change often!

This is a YouTube channel filled with excellent videos for all different types of ceramic art.

"Information and Inspiration from inside the artist's studio." An all-things-ceramics website that includes video archives, photos, guides to workshops and classes, forums and articles.

Sweet Tea Pottery is a blog written by a ceramic teacher and artist who shows her work, and does a few tutorials too. This particular tutorial is of how to make a ceramic bowl on the wheel, a more advanced skill then just making a mug or pot. The tutorial uses pictures and text to help users with their craft.

The crucible is an integral part of the type of foundry I made, as it is what the metal is melted in and contained before pouring. The crucible I got is made of clay-graphite. Clay-graphite is a ceramic, meaning that it is very sensitive to thermal and mechanical shock, and will literally explode if not used properly.

A great and very detailed web page describing many different techniques for glazing a piece both before and after firing it. The page cover all sort of glazing techniques from etching to marbleizing. Good site overall but some pictures of results and steps would be useful