Decorating and Glazing Pottery Books


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Decorating and Glazing
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	Whether you look forward to glazing your work or are guilty of saying "I hate glazing!" Amazing Glaze is for you. Join author and Odyssey Clayworks founder Gabriel Kline on a journey that makes glazing less intimidating and more fun. Start in the "glaze kitchen" where you'll set yourself up for success, then move on to learning the tools and techniques for getting your glaze right every time. Along the way, Gabriel shares dozens of tried-and-true recipes and combinations for both mid-range and high-fire glazes.	Amazing Glaze Techniques, Recipes, Finishing and Firing Gabriel Kline Hardcover, 199 pages List $30.00 Our Price $23.88
	Get inspired and get glazing! Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations provides a captivating collection of sure-fire glaze recipes and electrifying combinations for low-fire, mid-range, and high-fire potters. Hundreds of photos and technically-edited recipes ensure you'll get the best possible results..	Amazing Glaze Recipes, and Combinations Gabriel Kline Hardcover, 176 pages List $30.00 Our Price $23.88 Out of Stock
	Off the Shelf \| Outside the Box explores the nuances of commercial clays, glazes, underglazes, and more, as well as the variety of results that can be achieved with these products. In the past, commercial products carried a stigma in the ceramics field that they were only for use by hobbyists, at schools, and at community art centers. Now, in these fast-paced times, artists of all levels are embracing the versatility, convenience, and ease of commercially prepared products.	Off the Shelf \| Outside the Box Deanna Ranlett Softcover, 144 pages List $32.97 Our Price $26.88
	In Terra Sigillata: Contemporary Techniques, Rhonda Willers provides an historical overview, as well as technical information on how to make, mix, and apply terra sigillatas. In addition, she presents contemporary artist profiles and techniques to enrich and encourage your terra sigillata development. This book is loaded with techniques. Twelve Process sections featuring illustrated, step-by-step instruction on making, siphoning, and blending terra sigillatas. In addition, you'll find 33 Try It Like sections featuring artist profiles of contemporary ceramic artists explaining how they use and create terra sigillatas for their work.	Terra Sigillata: Contemporary Techniques Rhonda Willers Softcover, 168 pages List $43.97 Our Price $35.88 Out of Stock
	For many years, ceramic artists have used printmaking, drawing and photography to enhance the surfaces of their work. Using underglazes, slips, and glazes it's entirely possible to take advantage many 2-D mediums to decorate both functional and sculptural work. Image & Design Transfer Techniques covers more than thirty techniques that can be used on greenware, bisqueware, and glazeware. You'll discover ways to create and transfer images and designs using applique and paper transfers, decals, stencils, silkscreening, etching, stamping, embossing, and more.	Image & Design Transfer Techniques Paul Andrew Wandless Softcover, 134 pages List $29.97 Our Price $23.98 Out of Stock
	Ceramic art consists of two major components: surface and form. Either one can make your sculpture or pot a success or a failure. In Surface Decoration Techniques, you’ll discover a wealth of information about how to approach the surface of your ceramic surfaces through a wide variety of techniques from more than 30 professional clay artists with decades of experience. Each approaches the surface from a different perspective, with different tools, at a different stage in the process, with different results—so the results for you are greatly expanded!	Surface Decoration Techniques Anderson Turner Paperback, 144 pages List $29.95 Our Price $22.45 Out of Stock
	These days, a great number of creative and talented ceramic artists are pushing the limits of what is possible at the lower temperature ranges. They have tested extensively to find the right fluxes to get just the right effect; they have developed techniques for applying layers of surface to achieve depth and complexity. And the result is a growing popularity of low-fire ceramics.	Low-Fire Glazes and Special Projects Holly Goring Paperback, 132 pages List $29.95 Our Price $22.45 Out of Stock
	Whether you fire in oxidation, reduction, or neutral - with gas, electricity, or wood - High-Fire Glazes delivers an enormous array of surface possibilities. The recipes in this book have been used and tested by more professional artists, over a longer period of time, than those at other temperature ranges. It's not a matter of status or comparative desirability, but a factor of the reality that the history of studio ceramics in the United States was built largely at high temperatures.	High-Fire Glazes Sherman Hall Paperback, 144 pages List $29.95 Our Price $22.45 Out of Stock
	For ceramists of any level, surface design is an essential skill for creating beautiful work. And this comprehensive and invaluable studio reference captures all the popular techniques available for embellishing clay. A wealth of practical information and detailed images lead you through every phase of the process—from the wet and leather-hard stages (faceting, carving, burnishing) through bisque ware (terra sigillata and slip work), to firing (glazing methods) and post-firing (decals, lusters, and raku).	Surface Design for Ceramics Maureen Mills Paperback, 144 pages List $21.95 Our Price $16.50 OUT-OF-STOCK
	A remarkable diversity of techniques are used to treat the ceramic surface. Matthias Ostermann presents an exploration of the ceramic surface—focusing on the vessel and platter—that includes the nonfunctional, the metaphoric, the narrative, and even the sculptural. Through an examination of the works of 200 ceramicists from around the world, he provides a broad overview of contemporary techniques and approaches.	The Ceramic Surface Matthias Ostermann Hardcover, 208 pages List $49.95 Our Price $42.45
	Get in on the latest techniques from 21st century potters with a book that covers three of the most critical aspects of the ceramic process in up-to-date terms. Find out how 30 ‘with it’ ceramic artists create unique forms and the methods they use to glaze and decorate their work. You’ll discover all types of forming, decorating and glazing techniques illustrated in detailed step-by-step photo sequences that cover every aspect of modern ceramics.	Surface, Glaze & Form Anderson Turner Paperback, 144 pages List $29.95 Our Price $22.45
	Savvy crafters and designers in search of exciting new ideas know they can find them in the bestselling 4000 Motifs sourcebooks. Now, the unique series that includes 4000 Flower and Plant Motifs and 4000 Animal, Bird and Fish Motifs offers a new selection of stunning copyright-free designs: a lavish treasury of elegantly rendered typographic and calligraphic alphabets from the familiar Roman letters to scripts inspired by Runic and Cyrillic writing—along with numerals, music, and other symbols.	4000 Alphabet & Letter Motifs Graham Leslie McCallum Paperback, 399 pages List $17.95 Our Price $13.88
	Designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of a single item, such as a tree, tulip, shell, owl, peacock feather, mushroom, cloud, or berry.–with blank space for you to draw your take on “20 Ways to Draw a Tree.” This is not a step-by-step technique book--rather, the stylized flowers, trees, leaves, and clouds are simplified, modernized, and reduced to the most basic elements, showing you how simple abstract shapes and forms meld to create the building blocks of any item that you want to draw.	20 Ways to Draw a Tree Eloise Renouf Paperback, 95 pages List $19.99 Our Price $15.95
	Hand-lettering techniques are a popular and visually dynamic way to add textual elements to crafts, from journals to mixed-media art. Sixteen accomplished contributors—including calligraphers, painters, collagists, card makers, fiber artists, and graphic designers—give their personal perspectives on lettering. They all offer their favorite tools, how they use them, their signature technique with step-by-step instructions and photos, and an alphabet sampler of their own font. Gorgeous gallery images of each contributor's work are also included.	Creative Lettering Jenny Doh Paperback, 144 pages List $19.95 Our Price $15.88
	The practice of tin glaze spans thousands of years of history, from its inception in Mesopotamia, through its flowering in Islamic culture, its brilliant heyday during the Italian Renaissance, and its current active revival around the world. It has always been a medium both varied and expressive that has inspired ceramists and artists alike over the centuries to ply their brushes in an exuberance of painted decoration and narrative. Within the field of ceramics, maiolica, with its stable color-holding glaze surface, is unique as a medium—indeed, it has been called a painter's medium.	The New Maiolica Matthias Ostermann Hardback, 160 pages List $45.00 Our Price $41.15
	Jason Bige Burnett introduces intermediate to advanced ceramicists to various surface techniques while offering ideas and exercises to encourage development and creative vision. The first part of Graphic Clay examines ways to decorate ceramics, working from greenware to glazed. Brush or sponge-stamp slip directly onto your clay as if it were paint. Or try newsprint transfer to create great chipped paint-like and peeled wallpaper surfaces. Screen printing is covered in the second part of Graphic Clay, which begins with an introduction to the general materials, supplies and equipment.	Graphic Clay Jason Bige Burnett Hardcover, 160 pages List $27.95 Our Price $20.95 Out of Stock
	Ceramic Transfer Printing is aimed at those in ceramics who wish to move into print and transfers, a very exciting area which has expanded massively in the last 10 years. Transfers, or decals, have great potential as a means of creative expression. Printmaking allows reproduction of both photographic and ‘hand drawn’ imagery, pattern and text onto the surface of two and three-dimensional ceramic objects.	Ceramic Transfer Printing Kevin Petrie Paperback, 144 pages List $29.95 Our Price $23.95
	In Glazing Techniques you’ll discover how dozens of talented artists approach glazing using a variety of techniques, materials and firing ranges to achieve stunning surfaces that are sure to inspire your work. This book provides step-by-step details on materials, preparing your work, resists, layering, lusters, underglazes, majolica, china paint, stencils, spraying, pouring, and more. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, this book gives you the expert information and instructions you need to apply stunning glazed surfaces you for as long as you enjoy clay.	Glazing Techniques Anderson Turner Paperback, 136 pages List $29.95 Our Price $22.45
	Developing your own glazes can be tricky and success is dependent on many factors. In this book, ceramicist Greg Daly aims to demystify the process with practical advice and complete, step-by-step instructions. He covers all the essentials, from planning your recipes and recording results to mixing glazes and finding the correct firing temperature. This hands-on technical guidance is supported with helpful how-to images and example tests and recipes. For any potter beginning to experiment with fired color, texture and decoration in their work, Developing Glazes is an essential reference, revealing workable, exciting methods for achieving the glaze results you want.	Developing Glazes Greg Daly Paperback, 128 pages List $29.95 Our Price $27.88 Out of Stock
	Glazing plays an important part of ceramic art but can be rather mysterious to both the newcomer and the seasoned professional. While the chemistry may appear to be a bit like alchemy to the uninitiated, an established science and accepted practices provide order and repeatable results.Glazes & Glazing: Finishing Techniques covers many aspects of glazing–from formulating your own special concoctions to working with various combinations and applications.	Glazes & Glazing Paperback, 144 pages List $29.95 Our Price $23.95
	Eighteen years after its first edition, Robin Hopper has updated what has become a staple for all potters and ceramists. With several new or expanded chapters covering Oriental glazes, Islamic Iustres, Egyptian pastes, high texture glazes, flux variation triaxial and extended colour information, among other topics, this new edition is a must-have for any ceramist or potter. The book is easy to read, follow and understand and features hundreds of photographs, drawings and charts to visually guide and inspire the reader.	The Ceramic Spectrum Robin Hopper Paperback, 256 pages List $44.95 Our Price $32.88
	A complete guide to achieving a fantastic spectrum of colorful glazes for the studio potter, Color in Glazes looks at all the methods of achieving color in glazes, focusing on coloring oxides in detail, including the newly available rare earth oxides. Types of base glazes and the fluxes used to make them are discussed in relation to color response. Emphasis is placed on using coloring oxides to achieve depth and variety of color, rather than just resorting to commercial ceramic stains.	Colour in Glazes Linda Bloomfield Paperback, 144 pages List $29.95 Our Price $23.95
	With hundreds of recipes for some of the most popular and enduring high-fire glazes, this reference will prove a boon to ceramists who want to master this complex and versatile aspect of the art. Author John Britt has personally tested many of the recipes, and carefully reviews every one. He offers a thorough examination of glaze materials, chemistry, and tools, and presents the basics of mixing, application, and firing procedures. There’s a wealth of information on various type of glazes, including copper, iron, shino, salt/soda, crystalline, and more. An exhaustive index of subjects and a separate index of glaze recipes will help ceramists find what they need.	The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes John Britt Paperback, 184 pages List $17.95 Our Price $15.25 Out of Stock
	According to Ceramics Monthly, approximately 75% of potters glaze their pieces at mid-range temperatures—and this complete studio guide eliminates the guesswork from the popular process. Along with hundreds of recipes, it explores mixing, application, specific firing and cooling cycles, and all the factors that make glazes work. See how to boost colors with intense stains, washes, and underglazes; achieve stunning results that equal high-fire glazing, and expand the frontiers of mid-range with tips for wood, salt, and soda firing.	The Complete Guide to Mid-Range Glazes Hardcover, 192 pages List $29.95 Our Price $23.88 Out of Stock
	Like clay, all glaze materials come from the earth. Traditionally, stones, plants, and other natural materials provided the elements for ceramic surface decoration. In an age of synthetic and mass-produced glazes, handmade glazes from locally sourced ingredients allow artists to produce unique pieces that reflect their surrounding landscapes. In Natural Glazes, Miranda Forrest guides readers through the process of experimentation and discovery to make amazing hues from organic materials.	Natural Glazes Miranda Forrest Paperback, 112 pages List $29.95 Our Price $26.88 Out of Stock
	Soda glazing is a relatively new development in ceramic history, with exciting scope for research and experimentation. It’s a more popular ceramic practice, particularly in the U.S., where it’s widely taught in college ceramics departments and workshops, and has attracted a high number of professional practitioners.	Soda, Clay and Fire Gail Nichols Paperback, 156 pages List $29.95 Our Price $22.45