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Beginners, Basic Skills

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The Basics of Throwing: A Practical Approach to Form and Design
Basics of Throwing: A Practical Approach to Form and Design
Offers a "back-to-basics"approach, covering the essential and fundamental principles of throwing on the wheel. From centering the clay to developing shapes from the basic cylinder form (jugs, bowls, etc.), it clearly studies and explains each movement.
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Basics of Throwing: A Practical Approach to Form and Design
Ceramic Design Course
Ceramic Design Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: A Complete Guide for Ceramicists
This is a complete course in designing ceramics with confidence. Focusing on the design process and principles of shape, form, surface, and function, it also includes practical instruction in studio techniques for rendering your ideas into reality.
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Ceramic Design Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: A Complete Guide for Ceramicists
Ceramics for Beginners: Animals & Figures
Creating the human form and self-supported animals may seem intimidating to anyone new to ceramics, but it doesn't have to be; this book breaks down the process into forming simple figurative shapes that build upon forms like tubes, bowls, and slabs.
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Ceramics for Beginners: Animals & Figures
Ceramics for Beginners: Handbuilding
Ceramics for Beginners: Handbuilding
Shay Amber shares fundamental techniques and 12 projects to practice them on, including a Coiled Bottle, Wall Pocket, Carved Lantern, Appliqué Tile, and a Square Plate. Amber also introduces you to surface decoration and glaze treatments.
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Ceramics for Beginners: Handbuilding
Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing
Discover the Creative Potential for Decorating Clay; stamping, clay applique, combing, slip inlay, staining, majolica, reglazing with conventional glazes, brushwork with underglazes and oxides and more.
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Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing
Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing
Master the Fundamentals While Creating Beautiful Ceramic Pieces; artist Emily Reason takes the beginner ceramist through nine projects.
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Ceramics for Beginners: Wheel Throwing
Children, Clay and Sculpture
Children, Clay and Sculpture
Here is a practical, refreshing introduction to using clay as a means for the exploration and appreciation of three-dimensional art. You'll find many useful suggestions for helping students to be aware of the possibilities for using clay in sculpture.
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Children, Clay and Sculpture
Clay Connections
Clay Connections
Innovative ceramics lessons that make connections to the elementary school curriculum and seasonal calendar.
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Clay Connections
Clay in the Primary School
Clay in the Primary School
Peter Clough discusses the basics necessary for successfully working with clay in school. He covers the types of clays, storage, building techniques and firing—with and without a kiln.
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Clay in the Primary School
Clay Projects for Children
Clay Projects for Children
contains a wealth of suggestions for exciting and fun items that children can make with clay. The items range from musical instruments to wall decorations to fantastic animals and much more.
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Clay Projects for Children
Clays (Ceramic Skillbooks)
Clays (Ceramic Skillbooks)
Frank and Janet Hamer describe the origin of clay, its chemical and physical properties, and how to work with it. A Special Edition of Pottery Glazes is also included. Recipes for glazes, slips and clays fired at 1200 °C.
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Exploring Clay with Children
Exploring Clay with Children
Aimed at anyone who wants to work with clay with primary school aged children and who feels that some guidance towards possible projects would be useful. All the basic forming methods are demonstrated and then possible projects are suggested.
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Exploring Clay with Children
Handbuilding Ceramic Forms
Handbuilding Ceramic Forms
Discover the pleasures of working "off the wheel." This classic guide, now back in print, provides ceramists at every skill level with comprehensive instruction and advice on working with clay without using a traditional potter's wheel.
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Handbuilding Ceramic Forms
Introducing Pottery: The Complete Guide
Comprehensive overview of the methods, techniques, equipment, and theory that allows novice and more advanced clay artists solve problems as they develop and to keep improving.
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Introducing Pottery: The Complete Guide
Pottery Basics
Pottery Basics
This practical guidebook teaches all the skills you need to start creating beautiful ceramics. Step-by-step photographs and clear instructions guide you through the core techniques for making, decorating, and firing pottery, and inspirational projects.
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Pottery Basics
Pottery on the Wheel
Pottery on the Wheel
Take the mystery out of throwing clay with this classic guide now back in print! Novice and advanced potters can learn and improve their throwing techniques to create perfectly symmetrical, basic ceramic forms.
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Pottery on the Wheel
Slab-built Ceramics
Slab-built Ceramics
Introduces a method of constructing clay forms that has been in use throughout the history of ceramics.
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Slab-built Ceramics
Surface Design for Ceramics
Surface Design for Ceramics
Artists at all levels of experience will want Maureen Mills's essential reference for its comprehensive coverage of one of the most fundamental yet creative aspects of ceramics: surface embellishment.
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Surface Design for Ceramics
Tony Birks Pottery
Tony Birks Pottery
Beautifully illustrated and eminently practical, it introduces the beginner to wheel-made pottery and the full range of hand-building, slip-casting, extrusion and raku techniques, with and extended section on glazing and decoration.
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Working with Clay
Working with Clay
From hand-building to wheel-throwing, decorating to firing in a kiln, Susan Peterson details these processes, with instructional photographs accompanying each step.
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Working with Clay