Lets Color Some Pottery, original sketchbook ideas and designs for ceramic pottery by New England and Florida based painter and potter Janvier Miller. This is a coloring book for all ages. The drawings are based on drawings for her ceramic pottery designs.
Drawings include sketches of butterflies, boats, fish, birds, circus rings with elephants, acrobats and clowns, beach scenes and cats. Wonderful compositions that include pottery set in a scene. Such as monkey with a bowel, frogs sitting on a vase in a lily pond, a swimmer with a crab plate, and swimming mermaids. Sail boats travel across the page with flags flapping, fish and ducks plates with geese, and beach scenes with kids playing. Get out your crayons and colored pencils for hours of coloring fun.

The peoples of the American Southwest during the 13th through the 17th centuries witnessed dramatic changes in settlement size, exchange relationships, ideology, social organization, and migrations that included those of the first European settlers. Concomitant with these world-shaking events, communities of potters began producing new kinds of wares--particularly polychrome and glaze-paint decorated pottery--that entailed new technologies and new materials. The contributors to this volume present results of their collaborative research into the production and distribution of these new wares, including cutting-edge chemical and petrographic analyses. They use the insights gained to reflect on the changing nature of communities of potters as they participated in the dynamic social conditions of their world.

In Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape, Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic meaning of Palace Ware by its cultural audience in the Neo-Assyrian central and annexed provinces, and the unincorporated territories, including buffer zones and vassal states. Traditionally, Palace Ware has been equated with imperial identity. By understanding these vessels as a vehicle through which interregional and intercultural relationships were negotiated and maintained she reveals their complexity gaining a more nuanced view of imperial dynamics. Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape is the first work of its kind; providing in-depth analysis of the formal and fabric characteristic, production technology, and raw material provenance of Palace Ware, and locating these data within the larger narratives of power, presentation, symbol and meaning that shaped the Neo-Assyrian imperial landscape.

This is a step-by-step guide to sculpting the human face. It is richly illustrated with both photographs and diagrams for creating detail. It comes from experienced sculptor and instructor Alex Irvine. Sculpting the human face presents a unique artistic challenge, but this richly illustrated guide thoroughly demystifies the process. Instructor Alex Irvine goes step-by-step, explaining everything from creating basic, rough outlines to surface refinements to finely detailed replicas, accompanied by photographs and sketches.

Learn techniques, tips, and tricks to turn your next clay creation into a stunning sensation Packed with pictures and loaded with ideas, Krafty Kiddos Clay will put you on the road to success Pages are easy and fun to read with concise text and lots of pictures. Read the book in its entirety, jump around, or use it as a reference guide. It's up to you Learn how to make banks, puzzles, vases, and plaques. The projects are FUN, the ideas are SIMPLE, and the techniques are EASY In This Book: - 100 Awesome Ideas - Tips, Tricks & Techniques - Types of Clay - Paint vs Glaze - Mosaics: How To - No Kiln? No Problem - Fire Pits - Troubleshooting Tips ...and so much more Print & E-reader Formats Available Pick up your copy of Krafty Kiddos Clay today

In the introduction to John P. Hart's study on Nacogdoches's historic Washington Square Mound, Timothy K. Perttula notes that publication of Hart's finding is long overdue. The Washington Square mound site, he describes, "is a Caddo multiple mound center" and is "one of the few known Caddo mound sites in the Neches-Angelina river basins in East Texas, and the study of its archeological deposits has contributed important and unique information on the lifeways, social and political organization, and religious beliefs of ancestral Caddo peoples" who occupied the area circa A.D. 1250-1425. Hart's research reveals invaluable details about Caddo tribal life, particularly derived from decorative and engraved pottery retrieved from the Mound, and, for the first time, makes this information available to a wider audience.

This volume contains papers presented at the international conference Networks in the Hellenistic world according to the pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond which took place at the universities of Cologne and Bonn 23rd 26th February 2011. The organizers, all specialists in Hellenistic pottery of different regions in the Eastern Mediterranean, invited participants working from the Adriatic Sea to Asia Minor and up to Central Asia to consider their material according to the common platform of networks and exchange systems. Among the questions addressed by the contributors are: What is the character of the trade relations between political centres? What is the nature of economic development in minor cities and rural areas? Are some regions cut off from trade routes and thus characterised by a more restricted spectrum of local pottery? Which places traded their pottery globally? Whose pottery was copied, and by whom? Can the repertoire of forms reflect the adoption of specific customs?"

Volume 3 in this series on Pre-Columbian figurines concentrates on pottery figurines from the south coast, the highlands and the 'Selva' (tropical rain forests) of Peru. It details a collection of 784 figurines: 536 from the South Coast, 230 from the Sierra and 18 from the Selva. The main aim of this work has been to record the figurines and to classify them into iconographically and stylistically meaningful groups, thus providing a user-friendly Corpus. For each geographic area the figurine groups are presented in chronological order. Each figurine is listed on a Table, containing all the relevant data (collection, site provenance, sex, measurements, surface colour, manufacturing technique, special features and reference to publications) and is illustrated on a Plate. The analytical part lists the group characteristics and discusses special features, links with other groups, context, geographic distribution and chronology of each group or sub-group. Volume 1 (The Pottery Figurines of the North Coast of Peru has already appeared as BAR S1941 (2009).

"Looking to discover how to collect antiques?" "Have a passion for antique history?" "Have you uncovered a unique item and want to know the antique appraisal?" This Practical Guide Is Designed To Teach You More About This Amazingly Complex, yet Elegant Simple Hobby. Let me help you take the complexity out of this hobby and show you exactly what it takes to collect antiques like a seasoned veteran. I give you the in-and-outs of this business within this guide. You'll will learn how to finally: Quickly identify antiques and assess the antique appraisal for these unique items.

23 full size equine stained glass projects depicting the sport of eventing. Patterns include an all- purpose saddle nightlight, a 3-D log jump, 17 suncatchers representing the dressage, cross-country and stadium phases of eventing, and four Christmas ornaments. Helpful hints, pctures, and instructions for projects are also included.

The models in this project book are designed to be robust and simple to make. The models are built using basic pottery techniques and will help to reinforce and build on the skills introduced in our "Clay modelling" series: - "Simple Animals volumes 1 & 2." And the slightly more complex project book "Upright Animals." We use the same style of step by step text instruction backed by still photos of each significant stage. Instructions with worksheets allow you to make each of the figures shown on the cover. Also included is a section I have called "Variation on a Theme" which introduces an alternative style of fashioning the arms, effectively doubling the number of models available to make. Design Your Own Rollifolk Person is meant as a challenge to students who learn to apply the techniques and can demonstrate the skills to produce their own models based on the techniques.

This book is an analysis of a collection of artefacts from the Neolithic period of the southern Levant. Although they have traditionally been identified as human images, the relationship of some of them to naturalistic human anatomy is tenuous, and, drawing on comparative examples from other periods and locations, Estelle Orrelle interprets them as images of Gods. Situating the artefacts in the context of the Neolithic transition, she shows how a Darwinian symbolic origins theory can explain the emergence of this iconography; that it lies in ancient sexual selection strategies, as power relations changed from an original social contract underpinned by female ritual power, to a new social contract driven by competing male elites."

Decorative arts is my passion. Create comfortable spaces for the enjoyment and admiration to whom observe, it's for me indispensable. I studied Interior Design and worked as a Graphic Artist in my own studio through 15 years. In the last years I was taking Museum courses in the University of Puerto Rico and in the Museum and Humanistic Studies of the Turabo University. Creativity is my goal and I understand that it's a must to use this to create decorative pieces with illumination using stained glass. I took a Stained Glass course in the Arts and Crafts Workshop of the University of Puerto Rico and began to design using stained glass as a focal point. I joined my passion for the arts and the stained glass technique to create unique pieces that were decorative and functional. Use stained glass from another perspective is my challenge. I discovered the Arts and Crafts Movement and immediately identified myself with this style. Their distinctive characteristics are simple design, good materials and well done work, because of this, is no wondering that is a fundamental element in interior design until today. I studied the development of the Arts and Crafts Movement and I think that it's a style where many crafts artists and industrial designers can identify and work to contribute for the history of modern furniture and decorative arts in Puerto Rico. I exhort to observe, support and wonder with the work of the crafts artists that today contribute with their work for the enjoyment of the art lovers and collectors. This book is a compilation of my first projects patterns as an artisan. Hope you enjoy the Caribbean Inspirations of my Puerto Rican Culture.