Making Marks
By Robin Hopper
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Discovering the Ceramic Surface Making Marks is about ceramic surface enrichment, the processes used for achieving it, and the thought concepts, idea development and personal research behind it. “Making marks” is a generalized term used through the visual arts when referring to the alteration of any surface by any of the tools that artists employ. In using this term for the title of this book, Hopper is referring to the huge variety of marks that may be achieved through ceramic decoration processes, at any or all of the varied and various stages that the clay object goes through in its transformation from soft, wet, malleable clay to heat-hardened, impermeable ceramic.
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While you can visually enhance or destroy a form by what you do to the surface, managing it and getting it to work with the form is an art. For those who have basic training in art and design, the first section may be redundant. For those who don’t, the first five chapters provide a short, basic, art school primer. Part 2 begins coverage of surface techniques working with plastic and liquid clay processes. The chapters here deal with the process of decoration using graphic tools such as knives, sticks, scalpels, fluting, modeling, sgraffito, expanded spring wires and twisted cutting wires. It then looks at additive and subtractive approaches to surface enrichment, including texture, sprigs, modeling, handbuilding, slip-soaked fibers and washed wax or shellac resist. Additional techniques concern themselves with stamps, terra sigs, texture impressions, Mishima, Hakeme and Onda styles, and colored claywork utilizing Egyptian paste, agateware, neriage, and nerikomi.
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 Most of us think of glazing first when we think of surfaces, and Hopper covers this critical area in depth as well in Part 4. The various processes of glaze application are shown in this extensive chapter, including brushing, dipping, double dipping, pouring, spraying, trailing, multiple glaze application and glaze intaglio.
In the final part, Hopper discusses firing and post-firing processes that affect the surface. The effect that various types of firing have on both body and glaze are looked at from the inert atmosphere of the electric kiln through primitive firing, general reduction and post-firing reduction to the flame markings and fluid glaze of wood firing. A surface can be altered in a variety of ways, either as a special quality in itself, or in conjunction with other surface development methods. Other detailed information is also included on salt and soda firing; altering the fired surface in the bisque or glaze state with sandblasting, cutting and acid etching; and taking work through multiple firings to add decals, lusters, china paints and overglaze enamels.
It takes a great deal of tenacity to work through the many technical problems inherent in clay, however, when enough attention and understanding are given to their important aspects, the doors open to limitless potential and variation. Each variation of surface enrichment adds to your vocabulary and increases your ability to create poetry from mundane, earthy materials. “This is a book about options, ideas and the use of tools. It is largely the approach to the ceramic surface that determines the ultimate personality of the work that is done.” – Robin Hopper
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Here is more of what you’ll find in Making Marks Part 1: Fundamentals Part 2: Plastic and Liquid Clay Processes |
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| Part 3: Pigment Processes Chapter 11: The Ceramic Spectrum and Electric Palette Hot to Trot Play It Cool Mood Indigo Fired Up, Wired Up Patination Chapter 12: The Mark of the Brush and Soft Stamp Brushes Making Dots Brushes and Resists Banding or Decorating Wheels Preparing Pigment for Brushwork Preparing the Surface for Brushwork Soft Stamps Chapter 13: Marks of Resistance Petroleum-Based Resists: Hot Wax, Wax Crayons, Candles, etc. Rubber-based Resists Acrylic Sheet and Screening Fiber Products Chapter 14: Marks of Pencils, Crayons, Pens, and Trailers Ceramic Pencils Underglaze Pens Watercolors Trailers Chapter 15: The Mark of the Spray Compressed Air Spraying Spray Booths Spraying Casting Slips on Greenware Spraying Glazes Part 4: Glaze Processes Chapter 16: Marks of the Glaze and Its Application Brushing and Roller Coating Dipping Pouring Spraying Stippling Spattering Sponging Trailing Multiple Glaze Application Glaze Removal Processes Part 5: Firing and Post-firing Processes Chapter 17: Marks of Heat, Flame, and Smoke
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