Beginner's Guide to Pottery & Ceramics: Everything You Need to Know to Start Making Beautiful Ceramics
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Beginner's Guide to Pottery & Ceramics: Everything You Need to Know to Start Making Beautiful Ceramics

Beginner's Guide to Pottery & Ceramics: Everything You Need to Know to Start Making Beautiful Ceramics

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Jacqui Atkin (Author)  

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Clay is an exciting material that has been used to make both practical and decorative items since prehistoric times. With this practical guidebook, learn all the skills you need to start creating your own beautiful ceramics. Step-by-step photographs and clear instructions will guide you through the core techniques, including pinching and coiling and throwing and trimming. Discover inspirational projects as your skills progress, from simple coiled vases with painted decoration to marbled clay boxes with transparent glazes. Learn how to decorate and fire your clay vessels with myriad textures, using methods such as inlays, slips, sgraffito, feathering, burnishing and resist. Following the impressive projects inside, you can put your new-found skills into practice and develop your creativity. 300 Illustrations, color
Jacqui Atkin is a practising ceramicist and has taught pottery in colleges and occupational therapy classes for several years. She now runs private courses on low-fire pottery techniques from her home in Shropshire, which include smoke-firing and Raku. She has contributed to several pottery books as a project maker and gallery artist, and is the author of several books including Pottery You Can Use.
  • Contributor: Jacqui Atkin
  • Imprint: Search Press Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9781782215592
  • Number of Pages: 128
  • Packaged Dimensions: 215x280x9mm
  • Packaged Weight: 536
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Search Press Ltd
  • Release Date: 2017-05-18
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Jacqui Atkin is a practising ceramicist and has taught pottery in colleges and occupational therapy classes for several years. She now runs private courses on low-fire pottery techniques from her home in Shropshire, which include smoke-firing and Raku. She has contributed to several pottery books as a project maker and gallery artist, and is the author of several books including Pottery You Can Use.

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