Pottery Magic Modesto — Local services in Modesto

Have YOU been to Pottery Magic Modesto? If not you're missing out! This is the place where you not only get to play and meet lots of truly fun people, but you also get to learn new creative stuff all the time. I've been painting at Pottery Magic for almost 8 years now. (Yes, even before they changed their name to Pottery Magic.) This is my happy place.

I have a standing reservation for me and my friends for every Monday night. I invite ALL of my friends to come paint with me. Because it's a fabulous way to unwind from the stresses of Monday.

Lots of my friends say they're not creative. It doesn't matter. There are so many wonderful techniques and colors and things to paint that EVERYONE can be an artist.

I watched a Mom help her 1-year-old son paint a beautiful mug. YES! The finished mug was beautiful because she chose food colors for him and didn't let him over-paint. The best part was that an employee helped her to understand how to guide him enough that the finished piece was completely his creation yet attractive.

I also saw an 80-year-old grandmother have her birthday party in the studio where the whole family got together and created. What a wonderful experience! And everyone got a keepsake of the event.

The studio is a fun place to be. The owner and her employees have always been fabulous at helping me learn new things all the time. And sometimes... When I do a piece that's really cool... They let me teach it to their other customers. How cool is that?

The point is... There isn't a better place in town to let your hair down and get creative. With the nicest people you'll...

They have a very nice selection of blank clay sculptures to pick from, ranging from classic garden gnome-type figures to dishes like plates and bowls to various animals, like a snake or a cat.

I went with my girlfriend, and we both spent a few hours painting our things; I imagine this would be a good place for someone to take their kid so long as they can focus on one task for a good while.

The paint color selection leaves nothing to be desired, and the same can be said for the various paintbrushes. There's example disks showing what color you'll see when it's glazed (assuming you apply three coats, which they recommend with a plate showing the difference it makes between one, two, and three coats), and they had plenty of everything for all the people - nobody had to wait for a color to be available, or go without.

The staff was very helpful, patient, and kind, even very occasionally sparking up a small friendly chat about what we were making. I asked some questions, being a first-timer to this whole concept, and I always got all the info I needed.

I would...

I read a few reviews that their pieces went missing after leaving a bad review, so now that I have picked up the ceramics… i would not go here again. This place made us feel extremely uncomfortable. We misunderstood the whole “use only one paint” at a time thing, which is normally not a problem at other painting places… but the owner made us feel extremely uncomfortable because she yelled at us for using more than one paint at a time in front of everyone, and continuously talked to us with an attitude. We felt like she was supervising us the entire time and it just wasn’t pleasant. It was also uncomfortable having to ask other people for paints because normally at other places you don’t take paints to tables to avoid intruding on other guests. We also had a family member with a dog allergy, and although the dog was friendly, it was a little bothersome having the dog always...