In both her shapes and enamels, Annie Cotterot seeks the expression of movement and attitude for her sculptures so that a passing glance can slide along these forms, free of roughness and edges.

For her animal or character sculptures, work begins at the wheel with the creation of a ball in the shape and size of the future piece; she continues the shaping process, modelling the volumes, bringing them consistency and relief.

Particular attention is given to facial expressions and heads, excluding all aggression and violence, preferring the gentleness of a glance or the astonished pout of a mouth.

To achieve certain end effects, she sometimes partially coats her pieces in Terra Sigillata.

She prefers the Raku technique for firing her enamels, enhancing her pieces with the dull tones of the enamels combined with varying degrees of smoking depending on the clay mixtures she makes and uses during the shaping process. In addition to this smoking technique and further work after firing, she masters the degree of crazing and can thus enliven the fur of her animals or the robes of her "mammas".