Details the tools and techniques used by modern ceramic artists and provides step-by-step instructions on molding, firing, and glazing so one can create one's own ceramic art. Features more than 700 full-color photographs.
A comprehensive, illustrated guide to ceramics that explains key aspects of the craft and its basic and more advanced techniques, traces the development of ceramic art in the last century, and profiles the works of key artists.
handbuilding and wheel-throwing projects from the Kids 'N' Clay Pottery Studio
Arima, Elaine
2000
Teaches basic ceramic techniques and provides step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects including handbuilt items, sculptures, and creations using a potter's wheel.
Follows the daily life of Alicia, a Native American girl who lives near ?coma pueblo in New Mexico, focusing on the art of pottery making, which provides the family's living.
creative clay projects to pinch, roll, coil, slam & twist
Ellis, Mary
2002
Provides an introduction to clay and pottery, plus instructions for twenty-five projects using various methods, such as a pinch and coil Japanese tea bowl and a press-molded hanging bird bath.
Traces briefly the use of clay throughout history and gives directions for making flower plaques, a bird feeder, a coil pot, and other objects from clay.
