Renowned potters share their personal tips and techniques * Profiles of ten top ceramicists and their approaches to their work * Easy-to-follow recipes for clay-body and glaze * Basic to advanced techniques, all in one book Take a walk on the wild side...work off the wheel! This complete, classic guide for ceramicists details the full range of tools, forming methods, processes, and possibilities for anyone working without a potter’s wheel. Chapters cover everything from the basics, including common terminology, firing, mixing, reprocessing, and wedging, to advanced techniques such as surface treatments, joining, and creating lidded, composite, and large forms. Close-up profiles of ten top ceramicists, including Susan Wechsler and Paula Winokur, explore their distinctive approaches to handbuilding, complete with tips and how-tos. Clay-body and glaze recipes, plus more than 250 black-and-white illustrations. Let crafters everywhere express themselves fully in clay.
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Elsbeth S. Woody has shown her work in many solo and group exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum, Boston City Hall, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York, the Bronx Museum, and others. She lives in South Africa.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good basic handbuilding book.,
By Jeff Brown - jeff@jeffbrowhpottery.com (Northwood, New Hampshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Handbuilding Ceramic Forms (Paperback)
This book has several very good alternative handbuilding techniques that I've found useful over the years. It is easy to understand, and is illustrated just enough to give you a good sense of what is possible using each individual technique. This book is an excellent resource for the beginner ready to move beyond the beginning.
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For the Adventurous Potter,
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I like this book, but it will not be for everyone. The big plus point is the techniques are shown step by step in photos and the process explained. You will need to know some basics to follow along as some of the descriptions are vague and assume you have knowledge of the craft.
The photos are not great, but workable. Warning: For many of the projects listed, you would need a large studio and space to recreate these types of work. Much of the art may be considered abstract, but if you look at it as a guide, it can still be helpful for those wanting to make more conventional hand built ceramics
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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You Can't Judge a Book By It's Cover.,
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Unfortunately the best thing about this book is the lovely cover.
In this case definately don't judge the book by it's cover. The whole of the inside is black and white (and the photos are not even very good quality). I'm sure the infomation is OK, but quite frankly it looks so uninspiring I don't really feel like reading it to find out. Guess I'm just disappointed as I was expecting a lovely colourful, inspiring book and this is just a text book type. I would not have bought it if I had looked inside it. There are many other much better books out there.
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