Books, CDs, DVDs, VHS - Decoration
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Expanding your Creative
Palette with Colored Clay with Curtis Benzle
Colored clays have
been used for centuries in ceramics to attain qualities not possible with
any other technique. Curt Benzle is one of the world’s leading experts
on colored clays, a medium he’s been working in for nearly 40 years. In
this DVD, he demonstrates how to create colored clays and how to use them
in various techniques such as neriage, nerikomi, and slip. 2 DVD SET /
Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutesC-340-102
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Screen Printing on Clay
with Paul Andrew Wandless
If you’ve ever
wanted to try printing on clay, now’s your chance. With Paul Andrew
Wandless’ DVD, you’ll discover everything you need to know to get
started — and to become an expert! Wandless demonstrates how to transfer
images onto the clay surface. Beginning with creating screens and stencils
and preparing “inks” through to the final printing, you’ll gain a
complete understanding of the entire process. Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutesC-340-101
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New Directions in China
Painting with Paul Lewing
Paul Lewing,
trained as both a studio potter and a painter, brings more than 40 years
of expertise to this inspiring and informative DVD. You’ll learn the
basics of the china painting technique and move through various exercises
to develop skills and confidence. Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutesC-340-98
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Ceramic
Transfer Printing
Ceramic Transfer
Printing is aimed at those in ceramics who wish to move into print and
transfers. Unlike most books on ceramic transfers, this book just focuses
on ceramics and print in the context of transfers and decals. Ceramic
transfer (or decal) printing, provides an exciting creative potential for
any ceramic artist. With the up-to-date techniques detailed here, you can
transfer pictures, patterns or text onto both two- and three-dimensional
forms. Most importantly, printing on ceramics achieves distinct aesthetic
effects not possible using any other decorating techniques.
C-300-425
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Making Marks: Discovering
the Ceramic Surface
“Making Marks is
about ceramic surface enrichment, the processes used for achieving it, and
the thought concepts, idea development and personal research behind it.
Regardless of your level of expertise in working with clay, the surface
provides endless possibilities, and this book will inevitably open many
doors. The text of the book is organized into five parts: Fundamentals,
Plastic and Liquid Clay Processes, Pigment Processes, Glaze Processes, and
Firing and Post-firing Processes.” (Robin Hopper, paperback)
C-300-399
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The Spirit of Ceramic
Design: Cultivating Creativity with Clay
In this celebrated new book, Robert Piepenburg gives ceramists fresh
insights into the various dimensions of designing by exploring the
intrinsic connections between designing and human spirituality. He
addresses the complex significance of design as an aesthetic language of
our humanity that serves our needs by adding meaning to our ceramics and
value to all of our undertakings. Beautifully illustrated in full color
with designs by contemporary ceramists from around the world and
interspersed with quotations pertaining to the essence of the text, this
book illuminates the human spirit as an energetic power source for
enhancing creative freedoms and extending expression.
With thought-provoking quotations and
beautiful photographs The Spirit of Ceramic Design is a book that changes
the artistic landscape of ceramics and invites us to rethink how we create
with clay.(252 pages, 71 color photos, 9 ¼” x 7 ¾” x 1”/ Paper
with flaps) by Robert Piepenburg.
C-300-393
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Glazes & Glazing: Finishing
Techniques
Glazing ranks as one of the most creative and challenging aspects of
making pottery. From the basics of dipping and pouring to the more complex
concepts of layering and spraying, whether using commercial products or
formulating one’s own, there are many facets to this diverse stage of
ceramics. This book provides a wealth of information on techniques,
materials and recipes, as well as inspirational stories from many artists
and their search for the ultimate surface.
C-300-406
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Surface
Design for Ceramics
Artists at all levels of experience will want Maureen Mill’s essential
reference for its comprehensive coverage of one of the most fundamental
yet creative aspects of ceramics: surface embellishment. A wealth of
practical information and detailed images lead you through every phase of
the process—from the wet and leather-hard stages (faceting, carving,
burnishing, and sprigging) through bisque ware (terra sigillata, image
transfer, resist and slip work), to firing (glazing methods) and
post-firing (decals, lusters, and raku). Time-tested recipes are offered
in abundance, photos of fired demonstration pieces show the final effect,
and top-quality contemporary gallery pictures display the fabulous
results. Sidebars throughout offer options for further exploration (144
pages, 500+ color photos, 8 ½” x 11” x ¾”) by Maureen Mills.
C-300-401
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Surface
Decoration: Finishing Techniques
Surface Decoration:
Finishing Techniques covers techniques at all stages of the ceramic
process, including forming, leather-hard, bisque and even after the final
glaze firing. Artists discuss their working styles and tools, some provide
detailed step-by-step instructions, while others discuss their successes
and trials in broader terms. You'll find information on glazes and
glazing, recipes, embossing, sgraffito, brushwork, printing, patinas,
roulettes, stamping, decals, stains, resists, slips, china painting,
stencils, faux finishes, and more. Whether you're a talented professional,
an enthusiastic novice, or an instructor looking for fresh course
material, Surface Decoration: Finishing Techniques offers the information,
instruction and inspiration you need to move in a new direction.
C-300-384
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Image Transfer
on Clay
Expand your horizons with this idea-packed guide to decorating with image
transfers. Photographs and detailed firing instructions show you how to
make images using stencils, silk-screens, relief blocks, monoprints, and
decals. Computer software enables you to create graphics never before
possible and decal papers, ceramic inks and laser printing makes
transferring images easier than ever. More than 100 examples by 45 artists
are a wealth of inspiration. (112 pages, 200+ color photos/ 8 ¾” x 11
¼” hardcover)
C-300-371
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Inlaid
Colored Clay with Virginia Cartwright (DVD)
A delicate bottle
is created as Virginia folds a thin slab of clay that has been laminated
with intricate colored patterns. This video clearly explains the folding
techniques she uses to form faceted teapots, bottles, and covered jars.
Step by step instructions are given on how to make colored clay, how to
layer the patterned loaf, and how to apply very thin slices of it to a
thicker slab of clay. Photographs of her finished pieces are accompanied
by her comments about how her work has evolved over the years. This video
will hold the interest of beginning and advanced students as well as
studio potters. (44 Mins)
C-340-16 DVD
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A Sumi-E
Dream Journey
This inspiring video, with an impressionist approach to Sumi-e is great
for students and experienced artists. Have you ever wanted to know how to
use Sumi brushes like the Japanese masters? "A Sumi-E Dream
Journey" demonstrates Yolanda's common sense approach to the
seemingly complex Japanese art of Sumi-e. She demonstrates and guides the
viewer through the basic strokes: The four Gentlemen, and their boon
companions, Dragonflies, Butterflies, and the all-important "Yo-Bird."
Then she leads the student into the impressionistic realm of the Dream
Journey. This Video is an Excellent companion book to "The Sumi-E
Book" also by Yolanda Mayhall.
Over a period of some 45
years, Yolanda has practiced the delicate art of Sumi-e, running the gamut
of experience: teaching internationally, painting murals, and wall
hangings on commission, adorning ceramics and textiles, and lecturing on
TV and live appearances. (VHS 53 Min. Full Color)
C-310-63
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