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Be sure and select a good assortment of brushes for your projects.

Start with a 3/0 detail.
No. 2
No. 6
No. 8 flat
No. 3 pointed round
No. 5 round.
Try a variety of synthetic and natural bristles, because this is really a matter of personal preference.

Select acrylic paints for painting ceramics.
They are the easiest to use because they offer good coverage, dry quickly and clean up with soap and water.

Purchase 2 oz. bottles, which are the standard size.
Although some colors are available in 8 oz. bottles, those big bottles are cumbersome, but you can save some of the smaller bottles and pour paint from the bigger bottles into them.

Choose the truest shades you can find: Ceramcoat's Opaque Red is more red than Cinnamon, for instance.
You'll find that each company makes several shades of each color.

Begin with black, red, blue, yellow, green, silver, gold, flesh tone and white.
With these, you can mix just about any shade you'll need.
Most important when mixing, measure how much of each color you put in to make the color you want and above all keep notes, cause believe me you will not remember!!!!

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Have you ever come up with a good idea while working with your handmade pottery or ceramics and thought that you would like to share it with others? You have? Well, why not send it to us and we will add it to the tips page for all to see.

Handmade pottery can be a very gratifying hobby that produces fun and satisfying results. For many people it's an enjoyable release that is created by working an inanimate mound of clay into a beautiful work of art that you made through your artistic abilities.

The best way of starting out is to take a few lessons. You will probably waste quite a bit in materials when you first get started. Figuring out how to truly make handmade pottery correctly and shape into what you want it to be can be quite an ordeal. The different tools that a normal shop will have can be fun to try. You will soon see which ones you like to use the most and then when you are ready you will know which ones to buy.

When you get all set up, just enjoy the hobby and have fun at it. Some people get pretty serious and start selling their creations at craft fairs and small stores, but others just like to create items for themselves, relatives, and friends. Whichever kind of handmade pottery you desire to endeavor, enjoy the hobby and have fun doing it.