Overview
Join esteemed ceramic artist and instructor Sunshine Cobb for an inspiring exploration of hand building, from foundational skills to next-level techniques.In Mastering Hand Building, discover a robust array of options for constructing both simple and complex clay forms without a potter’s wheel. Richly illustrated with color photography, this comprehensive volume includes:
- Essential techniques in hand building, covering pinch pots, coil building, and slab building
- Advanced techniques and tips for designing templates and replicating pieces, lidded vessels, using molds, a variety of decorative techniques, and other avenues of exploration
- An overview of kilns and firing schedules, plus slip and glaze recipes
- Slab-building and molding templates for creating plates, bowls, cups, and boxes
- Artist features and inspirational galleries, including work from today’s top working artists, such as Bryan Hopkins, Lindsay Oesterritter, Liz Zlot Summerfield, Bandana Pottery, Shoko Teruyama, Courtney Martin, Sam Chung, Deborah Schwartzkopf, and many more
Take your hand-building skills—and your artwork—to the next level with Mastering Hand Building.
The Mastering Ceramics series is for artists who never stop learning. With compelling projects, expert insight, step-by-step photos, and galleries of work from today’s top artists, these books are the perfect studio companions. Also available from the series: Mastering the Potter’s Wheel, Mastering Kilns and Firing, and Amazing Glaze.
The book, Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More (Mastering Ceramics) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780760352731 in Hardcover by Sunshine Cobb may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
01/16/2018
ISBN-10:
0760352739
ISBN-13:
9780760352731
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Harvard Common Press
