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Surface Decoration: Finishing Techniques
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When potters are ready to go beyond dipping, pouring and brushing the
sam e palette of glazes onto their work, they'll find the alternatives
to surface decoration offered here to be an excellent jumping-off
point. In this collection, thirty of the most innovative and talented
contemporary ceramic artists share the techniques and processes that
make their work unique and expressive.
Surface Decoration: Finishing Techniques
covers techniques at all stages of the ceramic process, including
forming, leather-hard, bisque and even after the final glaze firing.
Artists discuss their working styles and tools, some provide detailed
step-by-step instructions, while others discuss their successes and
trials in broader terms. You'll find information on glazes and glazing,
recipes, embossing, sgraffito, brushwork, printing, patinas, roulettes,
stamping, decals, stains, resists, slips, china painting, stencils,
faux finishes, and more.
Whether you're a talented professional, an enthusiastic novice, or an instructor looking for fresh course material, Surface Decoration: Finishing Techniques offers the information, instruction and inspiration you need to move in a new direction.
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A great book for all skill levels!
“Any potter or ceramic artist should always be looking for ways to think outside the box, and this book is full of ideas for doing just that, with plenty of successful finished pieces showing just how creative you can be with clay. Surface Decoration: Finishing Techniques contains articles that will benefit potters at a variety of skill levels, and will be of particular interest to teachers. You get the benefit of Pottery Making Illustrated's how-to format combined with Ceramic Monthly's philosophy of presenting the best and most innovative ceramic work.”
Sumi V.
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FEATURE CHAPTERS
Surface Decoration: Finishing Techniques
VIEW A SAMPLE CHAPTER
Rolling Stamps
 William
Shinn shows you how to create repeating designs with rolling stamps.
The use of stamps dates back to the early Greek potters who used small
rolls of clay that had been carved on the surfaces to produce repeated
patterns on their freshly thrown forms. With the increased interest in
handbuilt, press-molded and extruded forms, the possibilities for
texturing flat surfaces with rolling stamps on a larger scale can be
more thoroughly explored.
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Unearthing Beauty: Pushing the Limits of Surface
 Eric Seritella heats clay and stretches it to create a texture that looks like dried parched earth. He says that he was drawn to the technique during an artist residency in Taiwan a few years ago and he's done a lot of experimenting with it since then. He begins by throwing or handbuilding a form and often applies sand or grog to the surface and may even stamp or scratch the surface. While the clay is still wet, he heats the surface with a torch, but the heat only dries the surface. With the surface now dry, he expands the body resulting in cracks and fissures in the surface. |
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Scratching the Surface: A Guide to Sgraffito
 Sgraffito comes from the Itailian word graffito meaning "to scratch," and Wayne Bates does more than scratch the surface with this informative tutorial on the tips and techniques of getting the best results. Using both cutting and scratching techniques, he demonstrates the finer points of line work, scraping large areas and cross-hatching. If you're into making your own glazes, he's provided 19 colorful engobes along with 5 recipes for various clear glazes you can try out. |
Majolica Madness
 Put a new twist on an ancient technique with Majolica Madness! In traditional majolica, a lead-based glaze was made opaque with the addition of tin oxide then decorated with a wide palette of colors. David Gamble uses lead-free commercial glazes to lay down a base on his "canvas." But instead of just using white, he piles on various cone 05 glazes, beginning with a color then topping that with white. The bottom glaze now breaks up through the white making for a unique background to complete the drawing or decoration.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Surface Decoration: Finishing Techniques
Color and Texture: Creative Bits and Pieces Crush your dry scraps then pick up the pieces.
Ellen Currans: Textured Slabs are just part of a textured life in pottery.
David Gamble: Texture from Sewer Covers Who would have thought that the lowly sewer cover would make a great wall piece?
Sprigs from Nature will spruce up your work.
Anne Floche: Inspired by Terra Sigillata will inspire you.
Surface Etching: Wax and Water takes advantage of the fact that these two things don't mix.
Surface Etching: Resist and Mist like the "Wax and Water" with a bit of a twist..
Pièce de Résistance Your pots are easy to resist when you look at the many ways you can (resist your pots that is).
Creating a Weathered Patina is a technique you can't slip up on, especially if you succeeded at papier mache.
Chris Gryder: Surfaces from Silt are involved and time consuming and a result of the forming process.
Marcy Neiditz: Transformation and Mutation pushes form and surface with plant-like work.
Creating Faux Surfaces will get you to make it 'til you fake it.
Building Complex Surfaces with Multiple Firings fits into a schedule filled with multi-tasking and short blocks of time.
Danville Chadbourne: Indoor/Outdoor Color shows you can get your color from a paint can or a glaze bucket.
Dust and Wax when you're looking for a rich, warm patina.
Choi Sung-Jae: Expressive Slip Drawings put you in direct contact with your surface.
Mitch Lyons: A Marriage of Ceramics and Printmaking leads you to harmony and balance with the best of two media.
Printing and Embossing with Linocuts gives you a bit of relief.
Using Stencils for Multi-Color Decoration shows you how to cut up with your color.
Relief Printing with Photosensitive Polymer Plates sheds a little light on decorating.
Bridget Cherie Harper: Visual Diaries takes china painting out of the Victorian age.
Black on White: Modernizing Mimbres Decoration brings a lost Mimbres technique into the 21st century.
No-Fire Decals are a cost- and time-effective approach to printing.
Darren Emenau: Lichen Surfaces are surfaces you'll be lovin'.
Lee Akins: Intricate Surfaces explore how earthenware clay can give warmth to your colors.
Tea and Friskets finds a happy ground between plastic-looking glaze colors and an aged and worn color palette.
Carol Gouthro: Mastering the Surface advocates design exubeance and embellishment.
Mary Barringer: Conversing with the Surface will get your friends talking about yours.
Fusing Clay and Dichroic Glass unlocks the magic of color.
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