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Ceramic Art: Innovative Techniques touches on the many creative things you can do with clay. During any
stage of forming, decorating or firing, infinite variables allow ceramic artists to explore and expand the vast landscape clay has to offer. For more than 10,000 years, clay has been a medium every artist can use.
In Ceramic Sculpture, creative clay artists reveal their techniques and
their inspiration for imaginative sculptural works. Some of the work is
monumental, some intimate, some site specific but all of it influenced
by clay. With each artist providing some aspect of the sculptural
process from conceptualization to forming and finishing to the final
installation, you’ll find the range of ideas and techniques informative
and inspiring.
Electric Firing: Creative Techniques
In Electric Firing: Creative Techniques you’ll discover the contributions of studio artists who use electric kilns. They eagerly share the results of their experiments, their research and their artistic successes. Build on what they’ve learned through the up-to-date information on processes, glazes, tools, materials and techniques they provide.
Beyond the world of pinch and coil constructions and wheel-thrown pots lies a vast array of opportunities for the ceramic artist. In Extruder, Mold & Tile: Forming Techniques potters will discover a wealth of information, techniques, and inspiration on topics that span the usual to the unusual as well as the functional to the sculptural.
Glazes & Glazing: Finishing Techniques covers many aspects of glazing—from formulating your own special concoctions to working with various combinations and applications.
HattieS® Contemporary Metal Clay 2
Ring Forming Techniques Rings are a wonderful way to adorn yourself and express your individuality. Metal clay is an ideal medium for creating fabulous one-of-a-kind rings! This comprehensive DVD builds upon the skills and techniques taught in Hatties Contemporary Metal Clay 1 as you learn how to create accurately-sized, strong, and successful rings. Hattie guides you thorough the HattieS Patties ring forming techniques that she has developed through years of experience and hundreds of ring creations to assure your success. Next Hattie leads you through seven exciting step-by-step ring projects with great detail. ...
This updated and revised Ceramic Arts Handbook edition of Advanced Raku
Techniques contains information on forming, glazes and glazing, kiln
construction and firing, as well as inspirational stories from some of
the most influential raku artists working today. For any potter who has experienced
the excitement and immediacy of the raku process, this
book is a must.
In Raku, Pit & Barrel: Firing Techniques
you’ll discover some of the most beautiful alternatively fired work, as
well as extensive how-to techniques and step-by-step instructions to
help you duplicate the processes in your own studio. Explore dozens of
techniques and discover the many special effects available using these
ancient firing methods. You’ll love the experience of working with
glowing red-hot pieces in a raku kiln, uncovering pots from a pit fire
or peeling the aluminum foil off your latest saggar experiment.
Edited by Anderson Turner
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.
Throwing and handbuilding are at the core of all studio ceramics techniques. Through imagination and experimentation, some of the most skilled artists and craftsmen can take these basic techniques and often produce extremely creative works of art. With practice and patience, the coil pot or tall narrow form can become works of art suitable for galleries and collectors.
Advanced Throwing: Extended and Altered Forms with Robin Hopper
If you’re into throwing, you know there’s so much to learn. Beyond the usual fare of cups, bowls, mugs and vases lies a vast world of challenging forms. In this Advanced Throwing: Extended and Altered Forms DVD, Robin demonstrates a variety of extension throwing techniques for making large pots, as well as altering shapes to produce innovative forms.
If you've never tried raku, you're missing a one of the best creative thrills around! With raku, you're involved in a creative process all the way from throwing or handbuilding through to the firing and the final cooling. This is a great instructional video for the beginning potter or anyone who wants to try their hand at raku.
If you want to successfully learn how to throw, then inviting a master potter into your studio will put you on the path to success. Robin Hopper, a world-renowned potter for more than 40 years, shows you how to throw in this highly practical video demonstration.
Everyone gets lucky when master artists make a DVD or write a book - their experience and expertise become a gold mine of information and inspiration for the rest of us. When you give a book or DVD, you become a link in this ageless chain of transferring knowledge and skills - the perfect gift.
This video guides you through the construction of a 25 cubic foot gas-fired kiln that is a perfect project for the novice builder, yet large enough for a serious hobby potter or a beginning production potter. It begins with layout and design for the foundation, and includes the placement and cutting of bricks for walls, and the building of the firing chamber, the door, and the sprung arch kiln roof. The detailed materials list and working drawings that come with this video make this the most comprehensive kiln-building resource available today. Nothing is taken for granted, from the initial layout to the final brick in the chimney. A materials list and working drawings are included on ...
In Ceramics in the Environment, world renown ceramic artist
Janet Mansfield shows how ornamental, architectural and large-scale
ceramic works have always appeared on buildings and in the landscape
since the beginning of ceramics in civilization. This book provides a
look at the vast array of ceramics being produced today around the
world in this context.
Now is your chance to travel back to those early days of studio ceramics with these fully searchable CD-ROMs featuring all issues of Ceramics Monthly from 1953-1979. For less than the original cost of the magazine, you can explore classic techniques and see many works that have since found their way into museums. Most of the historical issues sold out shortly after publication and are now only available on these timeless CDs.
From the casual ceramic artist to the lifelong china painter, China Paint & Overglaze is the essential text for anyone interested in exploring these techniques. This ground-breaking book, the first to showcase the work of traditional china painters and studio ceramic artists together, includes many unique features on every aspect of this exciting and colorful medium. It contains a comprehensive history of porcelain and overglaze decoration as well as discussions on tools, equipment, mediums, solvents, chemistry, brushes and more. Professionals demonstrate their step-by-step methods on a variety of techniques.
Drawing on more than 30 years of experience in ceramics, author Vince Pitelka has created the most practical, all-inclusive studio handbook for students, studio artists, educators and all those interested in the art of clay. The ten chapters in Clay: A Studio Handbook address the full range of ceramic processes, and bring a lifetime of ceramic knowledge directly into the hands of potters. Concerned about safe and efficient studio operation, Pitelka pays diligent attention to safety practices.
Collaboration: The Ceramic Art of Tom Coleman and Frank Boyden
This film documents the challenges, risks and rewards of two extremely talented artists who have collaborated to bring about a significant achievement in ceramic art. Their accomplishments are now preserved in the permanency of the ceramic medium and are their legacy to the generations of the future.
