Mastering Hand Building

Author: Sunshine Cobb
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 0760362726
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
From pinch pots to coiled boxes to soft slab tableware, mastering hand building is a lifelong pursuit. In this book, Sunshine Cobb covers all the foundational skills, with lessons for constructing both simple and complex forms from clay. Ceramic artists will also find a variety of next-level techniques and tips: designing templates and replicating pieces, lidded vessels, using molds, a variety of decorative techniques, and other avenues of exploration are all inside. Artist features and inspirational galleries include work from today's top working artists, such as Bryan Hopkins, Lindsay Oesterritter, Liz Zlot Summerfield, Bandana Pottery, Shoko Teruyama, Courtney Martin, Sam Chung, Deborah Schwartzkopf, and many more. Take your hand building skills—and your artwork—to the next level with Mastering Hand Building. The Mastering Ceramics series is for artists who never stop learning. With compelling projects, expert insight, step-by-step photos, and galleries of work from today’s top artists, these books are the perfect studio companions. Also available from the series: Mastering the Potter's Wheel and Mastering Kilns and Firing.

Hand Building

Author: Shay Amber
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600592430
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Ceramics 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.

Handbuilt Pottery Techniques Revealed

Author: Jacqui Atkin
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Atkin 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.

Ceramics for Beginners

Author: Susan Halls
Publisher: Union Square & Company
ISBN: 9781454710608
Category : CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An easy-to-follow beginner's workshop in creating the human form and self-supporting, standing animals in clay simple. This revised and updated edition includes 4 new projects.

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO HANDBUILDING

Author: Anna Spillman
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3755433680
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
Clay 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

Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide

Author: Melissa Weiss
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 1631595989
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
In 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.

Handbuilt Ceramics

Author: Kathy Triplett
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 9781579901844
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Written for the general reader with an interest in ceramics, Handbuilt Ceramics is a big, colorful, and complete how-to manual for shaping clay without a potter’s wheel. Features 8 projects, complete with materials lists, clear step-by-step instructions, and detailed “how-to” color photos.

The Beginner's Guide to Hand Building

Author: Sunshine Cobb
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 0760374775
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Join the home pottery revolution! Whether you have access to a communal studio or not, hand building projects can travel just about anywhere. Take your clay outside or work at the kitchen table, with instruction from best-selling ceramics author Sunshine Cobb. In this book, you’ll find all the necessary fundamentals, including a thorough discussion of clay as well as helpful tips for keeping your body and mind in top shape. Then pick the path that’s right for you in the chapters that follow. Develop new skills and unlock your own creativity as you explore: Sculptural projects like miniature animals and plants. Functional items like scoops, a citrus reamer, and a coffee pour-over vessel. Mixed media projects including a candlestick holder, mobile, and a soap dish. All along the way, skill-building is front and center, with conversational instructions and tips to help you make pieces you’re proud to show off. Gallery work from some of today’s top artists are sure to inspire potters of all levels. What will you make first? For beginners and those returning to ceramics, the Essential Ceramics Skills series from Quarry Books offer the fundamentals along with fresh, contemporary, and simple projects that build skills progressively.

The Beginner's Guide to Wheel Throwing

Author: Julia Claire Weber
Publisher: Essential Ceramics Skills
ISBN: 1631599356
Category : ART045000
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
The Beginner's Guide to Wheel Throwing is a friendly, contemporary take on the classic wheel-throwing book—perfect for new and returning ceramic artists.

Sculpting and Handbuilding

Author: Claire Loder
Publisher: Herbert Press
ISBN: 9781912217519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Handbuilding 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.