Ceramics for Beginners: Surfaces, Glazes & Firing by Angelica Pozo
This is a step-by-step guide to learning numerous skills, such as stamping and sgraffito, perfect for emerging potters. It includes how-to photographs to help demystify the processes. It features scores of ideas for experimentation and tips on finding inexpensive tools. For the beginner, the techniques explained in this book are 'like having the biggest box of crayons ever', explains Angelica Pozo in this third instalment in Larks' Ceramics for Beginners series. As in the best beginners' workshop, emerging potters learn skills step-by-step, including stamping, sgraffito, brushwork with underglazes and oxides, majolica and other techniques. How-to photos help demystify the process and there are scores of ideas for experimentation and tips on finding inexpensive tools.