The Sunday afternoon demonstration at Handbuilt 2013 featured Mitch Lyons and Sandi Pierantozzi together on stage. This gallery concentrates on the efforts by Mitch, Sandi has a separate gallery. Earlier in Mitch's career he did clay monoprints and has work in many collections. In later years he has applied many of the same or similar techniques to create three-dimensional ceramic pieces with complex and colorful designs.

Mitch does a lot of pieces he calls "broomstick pots." These are done by shaping a fat cylindrical coil of clay and squaring off the ends. After that, the coil is carefully pierced lengthwise with a small dowel and rolled on a flat surface to expand the opening slightly. After that, a succession of increasingly larger dowels is used and one can roll out a cylinder four or five inches in diameter and a foot long or larger. Mitch sometimes finishes the cylinder by rolling it on a textured surface.

Colorful designs may be added with colored slip, frequently using porcelain slip with mason stains added. Mitch brushes designs on newsprint, then rolls the cylinder onto the paper and rolls the paper down to firmly bond the color. Sometimes he may draw on the paper with a slip trailer or scrape or blot to further modify the pattern. Another technique is to form and arrange some coils of colored clay and roll that onto the surface of the cylinder.

After the cylinder has been decorated as desired, it can be altered by pinching and adding clay - feet, necks, handles - to create vases and bottles and similar shapes. Captures of projected slides here are from Mitch's Friday night introductory presentation.