Anderson’s pots are built the way Zuni potters before him have made their pots – from hand-rolled, thin coils of clay. The shapes of his pieces are pleasing to the eye and are impeccably gracious in aesthetic and even in shape. Anderson gets his design ideas for his works from old Zuni pottery and interprets these early images to create his contemporary designs.  His line art and images are precise and create elegant flowing lines that are very well balanced.  His painting has matured into a fluid, rhythmic style. Like most pueblo potters, he makes his paints from earth and plant pigments. He paints with black and reddish-brown pigments on either pure white or dark, earthy red highly polished backgrounds. 

Pots are made in the morning and painted at night. Small pots dry in one afternoon; large ollas dry for several days. He applies his white slip evenly and rather liberally – the color of clay body of the pot does not show through. He also has a very steady hand with the paintbrush and is very good at loading his brushes to deliver an even application of pigment over the surface of the pot (no thin spots in the color).

Anderson learned his craft at Zuni High School from Jennie Laate (an accomplished Acoma potter who taught at Zuni), and he has been a potter ever since.