Beginner's Guide to Pottery & Ceramics: Everything you need to know to start making beautiful ceramics

Atkin, Jacqui

ISBN 10: 178221559X / ISBN 13: 9781782215592

Published by Search Press, 2017

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A few small stains.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beginner's Guide to Pottery & Ceramics: Everything you need to know to start making beautiful ceramics
• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178221559X
• ISBN 13: 9781782215592
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 540 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Clay is an exciting material that has been used to make both practical and decorative items since prehistoric times. With this practical guidebook, learn all the skills you need to start creating your own beautiful ceramics.
Step-by-step photographs and clear instructions will guide you through the core techniques, including pinching and coiling and throwing and trimming. Discover inspirational projects as your skills progress, from simple coiled vases with painted decoration to marbled clay boxes with transparent glazes. Learn how to decorate and fire your clay vessels with myriad textures, using methods such as inlays, slips, sgraffito, feathering, burnishing and resist.
Following the impressive projects inside, you can put your new-found skills into practice and develop your creativity.

About the Author

Jacqui Atkin is a practising ceramicist and has taught pottery in colleges and occupational therapy classes for several years. She now runs private courses on low-fire pottery techniques from her home in Shropshire, which include smoke-firing and Raku. She has contributed to several pottery books as a project maker and gallery artist, and is the author of several books, including the bestselling Handbuilt Pottery Techniques Revealed, Pottery Basics, The Tile Artist's Motif Bible and 250 Tips, Techniques & Trade Secrets for Potters.