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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 (DVD)
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.
In Advanced Throwing Project and Techniques, Stephen leads
you through a series of projects, demonstrating each in from centering through
trimming. He works fast (good thing there’s a pause button) but he doesn’t miss
a step. When you’ve completed the examples, your work will take a giant leap
forward and you’ll gain the confidence you need to branch out into other forms.
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.
In
Beginning Handbuilding Graham Sheehan introduces beginning potters to
basic hand-building techniques. After showing how to make simple pinch
pots, he demonstrates coil and slab building methods using five
different projects of increasing complexity. The video features
close-ups that provide details about how clay should be prepared, how
it can be joined to another piece and how glazes can be used to
decorate forms. The program concludes with a demonstration of the
finished pieces fired in an electric kiln.
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.
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 ...
Sheila takes you through several techniques from simple cane additions to lids and plates to finishing with one of the most complex forms—a teapot handle.
One of the most remarkable things about clay is that you can make most anything from it, and in Ceramic Projects: Forming Techniques
dozens of clay artists prove this over and over. You'll discover some
practical projects like Steve Davis-Rosenbaum's unique Chip and Dip
server and Dannon Rhudy's Juicer to the more esoteric Pancaker of Keith
Phillips and the exotic Condiment Server from Gwendolyn Yoppolo.
Beyond
simple cylinder and slab construction, these projects get into
combinations of techniques-adding textures, cutting darts, extruding
forms, faceting, assembling multiple parts, and more. Techniques that
will make your work stand out. For the intermediate potter looking for
the next challenge and the advanced clay artist seeking ...
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.
