The Potter's Bible (eBook)

An Essential Illustrated Reference for both Beginner and Advanced Potters

Marylin Scott (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2022
192 Seiten
Chartwell Books (Verlag)
978-1-61058-373-2 (ISBN)

Infos

An essential guide for beginner and advanced potters, featuring step-by-step photographs to guide you through a comprehensive range of techniques. Begin making beautiful ceramics, even if you've never attempted pottery before, following detailed information about:- Essential tools and studio equipment- Different types and constituencies of clay including earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, and raku- Forming methods including pinching, coiling, slabbing, press molding, throwing, and trimming- Adding texture and patterns with techniques such as sgraffito, stamping, inlaying, and burnishing- Painting and printing using slip, banding and combing, resists, and underglazes- Glazes and post-firing techniques including salt and soda glazes, lusters, and metal leaf- Essential technical resources such as glaze recipes, types of kilns and firings, and health and safety tipsWith its combination of practical advice, exciting images, inspirational ideas, and a glossary, this book is a must-have for all potters at any stage of their career.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Artist/Craft Bible Series
• Zusatzinfo: Over 400 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
• Schlagworte: Activity • agateware • Anxiety • Body • Bowl • Burnishing • Ceramics • clay • Coiling • craft • Creative • decorating • Design • dishes • earthenware • effect • Enamel • Encyclopedia • Engobe • equipment • Fine Artist • firing • for beginners • forming • Functional • Glazing • Guide • Handbook • handbuilding • hand built • handle • Health • Hobby • How to Make • Illustrated • incising • kiln • luster • Majolica • Mastering • meditative • metal leaf • Mindfulness • molding • MuG • NATURAL • packing • painting • Pattern • photo instruction • pinching • Plate • potter's wheel • pottery reference book • pouring • printing • Raku • Reclaiming • Relieve stress • rouletting • Safety • salt and soda • set up a studio • Sgraffito • Showcase • Slabbing • SLIP • smoke • spout • stamp • Step by Step • stoneware • Supplies • Surface texture • techniques • Temperature • Throwing • Tool • Tutorial • Vase
• ISBN-10: 1-61058-373-6 / 1610583736
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61058-373-2 / 9781610583732