Pottery Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Start Making Beautiful Ceramics

Author:   Jacqui Atkin
Publisher:   Barron's Educational Series
ISBN:  

9780764158421


Pages:   128
Publication Date:   01 September 2005
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Pottery Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Start Making Beautiful Ceramics


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Working with clay is a deeply satisfying creative hobby, but many would-be potters are put off because they don't know how to get started. Pottery Basics shows the way. With instructive, clearly captioned, step-by-step photos on every page, it teaches everything they need to know to start making, decorating, and firing pottery. It also presents twelve simple projects that encourage beginning potters to put their new skills into practice. Expert potter Jacqui Atkin instructs on: Types of clay Basic modeling methods such as throwing, pinching, coiling, and trimming Techniques for bisque and glaze firing, and much more Beginners learn to make vases, trays, tiles, and many other attractive objects. They also learn techniques for creating designs, color combinations, and textures with inlays, slips, feathering, and burnishing. Separate sections instruct on clay preparation, on using a potter's wheel, and on firing in the kiln. Hundreds of instructive and inspiring color photos.

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Author:   Jacqui Atkin
Publisher:   Barron's Educational Series
Imprint:   Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 22.30cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 28.70cm
Weight:   0.826kg
ISBN:  

9780764158421


ISBN 10:   0764158422
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   01 September 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Jacqui Atkin is a practicing ceramicist and has taught pottery in colleges and occupational therapy classes for several years. She now runs private courses in low-fire pottery techniques, including smoke-firing and Raku. She has contributed to several books as a project maker and gallery artist, and wrote the best-selling Handbuilt Pottery Techniques Revealed. Jacqui lives in Shropshire, England.

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