Clay Modelling for Everyone : Pottery, Sculpture & Miniatures Without a Wheel
46: Arthur Schwartz, 1991. Hardcover. Text in English. 111 pp. Some shelfwear.
Clay is relatively cheap and a wonderful material to handle. With it one can make a host of useful and decorative objects from jugs, dishes, teapots and vases to miniatures and jewellery!
Clay Modelling for Everyone will be enjoyed by the whole family, adults and children, beginners and the more experienced. And because all the work shown in the book is done without a potter's wheel, there is no need for expensive tools or even great skill - just patience, and a measure of dexterity.
This book demonstrates and explains, in full colour along with clear, helpful diagrams and photographs, the simple and enjoyable ways in which you can make things out of clay. The subjects covered include materials and tools (including the different types of clay); techniques and preparation; firing and glazing; simple and more adventurous modelling, coil and slab pottery, miniatures and jewellery References to decorating are throughout and there is a glossary of terms at the end of the book.
'If you have every delighted' as Peter Johnson writes 'in pushing your hands and fingers into soft, infinitely malleable clay and wondered, what could I make with it? - this practical informative and enthusiastic book will give you many of the answers. Very Good / Very Good. Item #3413
ISBN: 085532564X
Price: $30.00