Amazing Glaze

“This book made me fall in love with glaze all over again.”
—Ben Carter, author of Mastering the Potter’s Wheel

Join author and Odyssey Clayworks founder Gabriel Kline on a journey that makes glazing pottery less intimidating and more fun.

Whether you look forward to glazing your work or are guilty of saying “I hate glazing!” Amazing Glaze is for you. Start in the “glaze kitchen” where you’ll set yourself up for success, then move on to learning the tools and techniques for getting your glaze right every time. Once you know the basics, discover how to take your glazing to the next level with specialized application and finishing techniques. Along the way, Gabriel shares dozens of tried-and-true glaze recipes and combinations. Stunningly illustrated with color photography, this comprehensive glaze guide includes:

An introduction to glazing, covering studio safety, tools and materials, the chemistry of glazes, preparing glazes, testing glazes, and various ways to apply glazesAdvanced techniques and special topics, including layering with slip and underglaze, working with resists, creating crystalline effects, achieving an elusive red, applying decals, and combining techniquesOver 60 glaze recipes (23 high fire, 22 mid-range, 11 low fire, and 7 raku)—refined over dozens of workshops, hundreds of firings, and innumerable tests—from reliable classics to obscure gems, plus recipes for slips, underglazes, washes, terra sigillatas, and more, together forming thousands of potential color and texture combinationsArtist features and inspirational galleries with photos of work from today’s top artists, including Cayce Kolstad, Anja Bartels, Nick Moen, Genevieve Van Zandt, Julia Weber, Molly Morning-glory, Naim Cash, Josh Copus, Linda McFarling, and Tisha Cook
Take your skills—and your work—to the next level withAmazing Glaze.

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, Mastering Kilns and Firing, and Mastering the Potter’s Wheel.

• Kustantaja / Valmistaja Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
• ISBN 9780760361030
• Tuotekoodi 9780760361030
• Alanimike Techniques, Recipes, Finishing, and Firing
• Kirjoittajat Gabriel Kline
• Sarja Mastering Ceramics
• Kieli Englanti
• Thema-luokitus Keramiikka, mosaiikit ja lasi: taideteokset; Keramiikka ja lasityöt
• Ilmestymispäivä 20.12.2018
• Vuosi 2018
• Tuoteryhmä Ulk taide, musiikki
• Tuotepääryhmä Ulkomaiset tietokirjat
• Tuotelinja Kirjat
• Sivumäärä 176
• Kirjastoluokka CRA
• Pituus (mm) 256
• Leveys (mm) 207
• Korkeus (mm) 22
• Paino (g) 862
• Tuotemuoto Kovakantinen
• Tuotemuodon lisätiedot Lankasidos
• ALV 14,0%