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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Ceramic arts, pottery, glass > General
A practical guide to all forms of decoration for pots and
sculpture. This step-by-step guide encourages you to explore the
full range of surface treatment techniques and teaches you how to
obtain a professional finish to your work by suggesting an
appropriate finish choice. Surface Decoration looks at all manner
of surface decoration techniques, at every stage of the ceramic
process and from a practical perspective explains how to achieve
these effects. The book explores a variety of innovative and
contemporary approaches to surface finish including sgrafitto,
resist methods, sprigging, trailing, glaze layering, lustre,
transfer, impressing, incising and textural methods amongst others.
This is the perfect guide for any ceramic artist interested in
exploring new surface decoration techniques.
Michael Simpson tells in easy-to-understand steps, according to
traditional methods, how to gather and process clay, form several
types of Native American pots, make designs and finishes, slip and
decorate, and burnish and fire pottery without using a kiln.
Simpson (part Cherokee and Yakima) was taught by Doris Blue, a
Catawba master potter. Fully illustrated with color and black and
white photographs.
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