The Potter's Bible: An Essential Illustrated Reference for Both Beginner and Advanced Potters

by Marylin Scott

Overview

An essential guide for beginner and advanced potters, featuring step-by-step photographs to guide you through a comprehensive range of techniques.

Begin making beautiful ceramics, even if you’ve never attempted pottery before, following detailed information about:

• Essential tools and studio equipment
• Different types and constituencies of clay—including earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, and raku
• Forming methods—including pinching, coiling, slabbing, press molding, throwing, and trimming
• Adding texture and patterns—with techniques such as sgraffito, stamping, inlaying, and burnishing
• Painting and printing—using slip, banding and combing, resists, and underglazes
• Glazes and post-firing techniques—including salt and soda glazes, lusters, and metal leaf
• Essential technical resources—such as glaze recipes, types of kilns and firings, and health and safety tips

With its combination of practical advice, exciting images, inspirational ideas, and a glossary, this book is a must-have for all potters at any stage of their career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610583732
Publisher:	Quarto Publishing Group USA
Publication date:	07/27/2022
Series:	Artist/Craft Bible Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	193
Sales rank:	458,258
File size:	36 MB
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About the Author

Marilyn Scott is a professional artist who works across a wide range of media. She studied painting at the Guildford School of Art and the Royal Academy of Painting in London. She is a respected practical art author.