The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes
The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes

Author: John Britt

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781600592164

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"With recipes for mixing, testing, applying, and firing hundreds of high-fire glazes, this fully illustrated reference will help all ceramists gain a better understanding of glazes and the factors that make them work."--Book Jacket.

Chief Of Seers
Chief Of Seers

Author: Elizabeth Goring

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1136156801

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Written in memory of the late Cyril Aldred, one of the world's most highly regarded experts in Egyptian art, the 30 original and thought-provoking essays in this volume, by an international team of leading scholars, are a major contribution to Egyptian art history, to Egyptology and to art history in general.

Acrylic Painting
Acrylic Painting

Author: Wendon Blake

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780486295893

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Comprehensive and richly illustrated survey by noted artist and teacher introduces acrylic colors and their characteristics, discusses painting surfaces and how to prepare them, lists painting tools and their performance, and much more. Step-by-step instructions and technical exercises for experimenting with major methods, among them opaque, transparent (watercolor), acrylic tempera, mixed media and others. 125 halftones. 32 color illus.

Pigment Compendium
Pigment Compendium

Author: Nicholas Eastaugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-09-10

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 1136373934

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This is an essential purchase for all painting conservators and conservation scientists dealing with paintings and painted objects. It provides the first definitive manual dedicated to optical microscopy of historical pigments. Illustrated throughout with full colour images reproduced to the highest possible quality, this book is based on years of painstaking research into the visual and optical properties of pigments. Now combined with the Pigment Dictionary, the most thorough reference to pigment names and synonyms avaiable, the Pigment Compendium is a major addition to the study and understanding of historic pigments.

Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments
Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments

Author: Nicholas Eastaugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-03-30

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1136373853

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The Pigment Compendium Dictionary is a comprehensive information source for scientists, art historians, conservators and forensic specialists. Drawn together from extensive analystical research into the physical and chemical properties of pigments, this essential reference to pigment names and synonyms describes the inter-relationship of different names and terms. The Dictionary covers the field worldwide from pre-history to the present day, from rock art to interior decoration, from ethnography to contemporary art. Drawing on hundreds of hard-to-obtain documentary sources as well as modern scientific data each term is discussed in detail, giving both its context and composition.