Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More by Cobb, Sunshine

Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780760352731)

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Format: Hardcover
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Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More by Cobb, Sunshine

Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More

$32.00
Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More by Cobb, Sunshine

Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coils, and More

$32.00
Format: Hardcover
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From pinch pots to coiled boxes to soft slab tableware, mastering hand building is a lifelong pursuit. In this book, Sunshine Cobb covers all the foundational skills, with lessons for constructing both simple and complex forms from clay.

Ceramic artists will also find a variety of next-level techniques and tips: designing templates and replicating pieces, lidded vessels, using molds, a variety of decorative techniques, and other avenues of exploration are all inside.

Artist features and inspirational galleries include work from today's top working artists, such as Bryan Hopkins, Lindsay Oesterritter, Liz Zlot Summerfield, Bandana Pottery, Shoko Teruyama, Courtney Martin, Sam Chung, Deborah Schwartzkopf, and many more.

Take your hand building skills--and your artwork--to the next level with Mastering Hand Building.

The Mastering Ceramics series is for artists who never stop learning. With compelling projects, expert insight, step-by-step photos, and galleries of work from today's top artists, these books are the perfect studio companions. Also available from the series: Mastering the Potter's Wheel and Mastering Kilns and Firing.


Author: Sunshine Cobb
ISBN-10: 0760352739
ISBN-13: 9780760352731
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2018
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.20w x 0.90d
By Sunshine Cobb
By Sunshine Cobb
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Sunshine Cobb, author of Mastering Hand Building, is a ceramic artist and instructor based in California, where she is currently a visiting professor at Sacramento State University. She has previously held adjunct or visiting professor roles at Sonoma State University, University of Pacific, and Utah State. She has experience with everything from eight-day anagama wood firings to slip casting ornaments, but she focuses her talent on functional ware, embracing the richness of earthenware and exploring the challenge of electric firing. Sunshine has been the recipient of the Windgate Fellowship Emerging Artist award, a featured emerging artist in Ceramics Monthly (cover artist), and a long-term resident at Archie Bray. She has taught workshops across the country including Penland School of Crafts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Arrowmont, Santa Fe Clay, and The Clay Studio. She holds a BA in studio art from CSU Sacramento and an MFA in ceramic art from Utah State University.

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