eBooks are accessible online, and many are available for download or 2 week check out.
Amazing Sculpture You Can Do
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Beautifully illustrated with instructional images, this guidebook enables artists of all levels to create their own unique clay sculptures. Topics covered include step-by-step procedures on how to pick an armature, clay application, tips on which tools to use, and suggestions for casting completed sculptures.
Basic Pottery Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started
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Step-by-step instructions complete with color photographs Includes a chapter on bisque firing, waxing, and glazing 4 basic pottery projects for the beginning potter The art of pottery making is described in detail for the beginning or experienced potter. Complete with a chapter on tools and materials to get started, this easy-to-use guide explains and illustrates how to wedge clay, use a pottery wheel, shape and trim pots, determine clay thickness, add handles, and a host of other pottery-making techniques. It also contains a chapter on bisque firing and glazing, the final steps in creating beautiful and functional pottery. Includes complete instructions for making a large bowl, three styles of mugs, and a sugar bowl and creamer set.
Ceramics
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"It is rare to find a book on art that presents complex aesthetic principles in clear readable form. Ceramics, by Philip Rawson, is such a book. I discovered it ten years ago, and today my well-worn copy has scarcely a page on which some statement is not underlined and starred."--Wayne Higby, from the Foreword
Creative Pottery: Innovative Techniques and Experimental Designs in Thrown and Handbuilt Ceramics
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With Creative Pottery, master new techniques as you learn how to make innovative functional forms, from teapots and juicers to serving trays and cake-stands. Hand-builders and wheel-throwers welcome!
Mastering Kilns and Firing: Raku, Pit and Barrel, Wood Firing, and More
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Mastering Kilns and Firing is an all-in-one resource for potters looking to go beyond the electric kiln.
Mastering the Potter's Wheel: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Potters
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If you consider yourself a serious ceramic artist, this book is a must-have for your bookshelf. Take your potter's wheel to the next level.
Studio Ceramics: Advanced Techniques
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More than 25 professional ceramic artists provide step-by-step techniques that they've spent years perfecting. From forming and decorating to meeting unique challenges, these techniques are sure to inspire and inform any serious ceramist. These are the techniques that can take your work to the next level or perhaps even in a whole new direction.
Full text eJournals are searchable through the library catalog or on the eJournals page.
Circulating books may be checked out in 3 week intervals.
The Art of Throwing
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Throwing is more than a technique: in order for thrown pots to have meaning, it is vital that the integral role played by materials, process, context, and precedent is considered. This book places the practical nature of throwing pots into a wider perspective, beginning with a look at some historical examples that provide an inspiring background to the study. It then analyzes throwing as a form of expression, exploring ideas and the way artists develop them. The core of the book examines the processes, including clay preparation, beginning throwing, and developing skills. Step-by-step color photos follow the throwing of various pot types and capture delicate methods, such as the pulling of a handle. Lavish photos of finished work and interviews with leading potters then demonstrate the diverse ways in which throwing is used and the opportunities it presents. Learning the potter's language of expression is a lifetime's work, and this book provides a place to begin.
Ceramics: A Potter's Handbook
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This classic handbook introduces students to the fundamentals of the ceramic arts, beginning with a comprehensive history of ceramic materials, techniques, and practices up to the present day and then moving to a detailed presentation of ceramic techniques from the most basic to the complex. This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to incorporate the many new resources and materials available to ceramists as well as the most current techniques and technical and safety information.
The Ceramics Studio Guide: What Potters Should Know
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Learning from others' mistakes is always more efficient and less costly than committing them yourself. This book is packed with practical information that will enable potters to successfully complete the many steps in pottery production. Making functional pottery or ceramic sculpture entails different skill sets and processes in forming clay, drying clay, glazing, and firing. Any one of these steps can cause failures. As ceramics consultant Jeff Zamek points out, under ideal conditions a beginning or advanced student would be guided by a teacher at every step; mistakes and bad habits would be caught as they occurred and corrected. While such learning situations are rare today, this book fills the gap. As Zamek says, "This book offers you forty years of wisdom, generated by my students 'and my client ceramics companies' issues with clays, glazes, and kiln firing." With its solutions to common problems, this guide helps potters to succeed.
Handbuilt Ceramics: Pinching, Coiling, Extruding, Molding, Slip Casting, Slab Work
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Written for the general reader with an interest in ceramics, Handbuilt Ceramics is a big, colorful, and complete how-to manual for shaping clay without a potter's wheel. Features 8 projects, complete with materials lists, clear step-by-step instructions, and detailed, how-to color photos.
The Potter's Guide to Ceramic Surfaces
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More than 70 techniques for beautifying ceramic pieces are clearly described with detailed, step-by -- step instructions in this inspiring book. Readers will learn how to add color, texture, and pattern with techniques like post-firing, multiple firings, and decorative processes used at the biscuit stage. More than 300 full-color photos illustrate the techniques.
The Potter's Studio Clay and Glaze Handbook: An Essential Guide to Choosing, Working, and Designing With Clay and Glaze in the Ceramic Studio
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Every potter--home enthusiast to the art center doyenne--needs practical guidance on choosing and using clays and glazes in his or her work. Mastering clays and glazes is a feat of both art and science, and navigating everyday issues in the pottery studio requires an understanding of both fields. With The Potter's Studio Clay and Glaze Handbook, the art and science of ceramics is explored with accessible authority and insight. Whether choosing a high-fire clay or applying a high-impact engobe, any potter's craft will be enhanced and inspired by this book.
Books from the reference section are available for in library use, or are available for online viewing.
The Encyclopedia of Pottery Techniques
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Easy-to-use, full-color, A-to-Z reference guides to basic and advanced techniques.
The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques
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This dictionary-cum-handbook by Welsh ceramicists Hamer and Hamer remains the standard resource for any student or practitioner working in ceramics.
