Mastering the Potter's Wheel: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Potters (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780760349755)

Take your skills--and your work--to the next level.

Mastering the Potter's Wheel starts with an introduction to wheel-throwing, from centering to creating the basic forms. What pushes this book beyond the competition, however, are the techniques offered in the chapters that follow. From a variety of methods for throwing large objects such as pitchers and platters, to alterations, darting, and paddling, this book offers potters a world of possibilities.

With galleries featuring today's top working artists, including Kyle Carpenter, Sam Chung, Chandra DeBuse, Julia Galloway, Martha Grover, Ayumie Horie, Forrest Lesch-Middleton, Kristen Kieffer, Kathy King, Matt Long, Alex Matisse, Lorna Meaden, Doug Peltzman, Mackenzie Smith, Shawn Spangler, and many more, you'll also find page after page of inspiration.

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 Hand Building and Mastering Kilns and Firing.

Author: Ben Carter
ISBN-10: 0760349754
ISBN-13: 9780760349755
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2016
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 10.10h x 8.20w x 0.90d