Clay: Handbuilding

Rating:
Summary: Excellent inspiration!
Review: Much more than a basic overview! Has a lot of intriguing designs that, unlike more advanced books, are totally reproducable for the beginning to intermediate artist. Has pinch pots, pinch sculpture, coil pots, coil sculpture, slab pots & sculpture and a section on clay surface embellishment - the decorative textural treatment of clay. Abstract works, also.

Rating:
Summary: Clay : Hand Building
Review: The title is more precise than one would hope. The text delivers not a guide nor a how-to book, but rather a simple definition. Basic yet adequate black & white photo illustrations provide no more than a cursury surfing of the term hand building. Although useful to define the technique from throwing on a wheel, this book is useless if one is searching for an in depth study of proper hand building technique.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent inspiration!
Review: The title is more precise than one would hope. The text delivers not a guide nor a how-to book, but rather a simple definition. Basic yet adequate black & white photo illustrations provide no more than a cursury surfing of the term hand building. Although useful to define the technique from throwing on a wheel, this book is useless if one is searching for an in depth study of proper hand building technique.