Marylin Scott

The Potter's Bible (eBook, PDF)

An Essential Illustrated Reference for both Beginner and Advanced Potters

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 tips

With 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chartwell Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610583732
• Artikelnr.: 63349794

Autorenporträt

Marilyn Scott is a professional artist who works across a wide range of media. She studied painting at the Guildford School of Art and the Royal Academy of Painting in London. She is a respected practical art author.