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Author: Sunshine Cobb
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0760352739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMastering Hand Building teaches everything you need to know about building with clay by hand, from the basics of coils and slabs through more complex form design.
Author: Susan Halls
Publisher: Union Square & Company
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781454704133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe technique is simple; the results are gorgeous! Susan Hallss stunningly refined, sophisticated, and modern projects range from a mug and vase to a teapot and triple herb planter. Beginning with the basic pinch pot, they move on to wider, taller, and composite forms, all with stunning options for color and surface decoration.
Author: Michael Hardy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2000-07-19
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780812217551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll forms of traditional handbuilding are clearly described and beautifully illustrated in color.
Author: Shay Amber
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781600592430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCeramics are always popular with crafters, and hand building with low-fire earthenware is a natural place to start. This book by artist Shay Amber will inspire even the most intimidated beginner.
Author: Jacqui Atkin
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAtkin takes the mystery out of hand-building by showing precisely what happens at each point in the process. Simple, creative projects clearly illuminate coil, slab, molds, and pinch techniques--all demonstrated in clear step-by-step photos.
Author: Anna Spillman
Publisher: BookRix
Published: 2023-02-27
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 3755433680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClay is a material rich in history and possibilities for art making, and handbuilding pottery is the oldest use of the medium. This comprehensive beginner’s guide offers a unique place to learn the different handbuilding pottery techniques of pinching, coiling, and slab rolling. Once you have experience with a few basic techniques, you can make your own functional tableware, vessels, sculpture, installations, and mixed media—the possibilities in ceramics are endless. What is handbuilding? Handbuilding is a ceramics technique that allows you to create forms with clay and your hands, without using a throwing wheel. Before ceramicists invented the wheel, handbuilding was the only way they could create functional and artistic ceramic forms. The oldest known ceramic artifact was handbuilt and is dated as early as 28,000 BCE. All you need to get started are your clay, your hands, and a few simple tools. Handbuilding is an ancient pottery-making technique that involves creating forms without a pottery wheel, using the hands, fingers, and simple tools. The most common handbuilding techniques are pinch pottery, coil building, and slab building. In this book , I will be teaching you in details everything you need to be an expert in ceramics pottery. The tools, skills, techniques, tips and tricks to create very beautiful ceramic art works ranging from pinching pots, slab pots, coiled pots and mugs. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW
Author: Elsbeth S. Woody
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1978-11-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780374514495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelineates basic methodology and suggests variations in the craft of handbuilding with clay, with a study of and illustrations of the work of ten professional ceramicists
Author: Melissa Weiss
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1631595989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide, pottery expert Melissa Weiss shows you the basics of crafting without a wheel, how to harvest and work wild clay, and using natural glazes. Handbuilt pottery is the perfect way for new potters to dive into this unique medium because it doesn't require access to a potter's wheel. In Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide, Melissa Weiss takes an organic approach to harvesting and working with local clays, and even shows you how to mix your own glazes to use on functional pottery for use at home. Students of pottery the world over have traveled to North Carolina to attend Weiss's classes. Now you don't have to! In this book, Melissa provides you with a solid course on slab and pinch-pot techniques that allow beginning students to master the basics and progress through finished wares. Looking to go a little deeper? Melissa also offers her unique knowledge of how to dig and process local clays for use in pottery, and for the techniques she has developed for creating unique glazes with ash, salt, and other dry materials. Melissa will also introduce you talented contemporary potters, who will share their work, tips, advice, and techniques. Learn the basics of handbuilding and more with this engaging guide.
Author: Claire Loder
Publisher: Herbert Press
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781912217519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandbuilding with clay offers a unique opportunity to experiment, requiring few tools, and allowing intuition and imagination to come to the fore. In this overview of a fast-developing practice, artist Claire Loder explains time-honoured methods of handbuilding, as well as introducing the fascinating new approaches of contemporary ceramicists.The basic techniques, from coiling and pinching to working with slabs, are explained with practical instructions and helpful accompanying images. Equipment, clay bodies and studio advice are thoroughly covered. Through the work of today's makers, the book then looks at new methods of building by hand, including mixed media work, sculptural methods, vessels and surface decoration, illuminating a wide variety of forms and styles.Sculpting and Handbuilding is an essential guide for any ceramic artist or student wishing to learn the basics of handbuilding, or seeking inspiration to integrate and adapt conventional methods.
Author: Anderson Turner
Publisher: The American Ceramic Society
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1574985248
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