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The Beginner's Guide to Decorating Pottery: An Introduction to Glazes, Patterns, Inlay, Luster, and Dimensional Designs (Volume 3) (Essential Ceramics Skills, 3)

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Join ceramic artist Emily Reinhardt to learn how to decorate pottery surfaces with glazes, gold luster, patterns and marks, inlay designs, dimensional shapes, and much more. With an emphasis on learning new skills, having fun, and embracing imperfection, The Beginner’s Guide to Decorating Potterysupports your creative process as you explore: Basic information on working with clays as well as materials used for decorating. Tutorials on color theory, combining form and function, and the importance of keeping a sketchbook. Beginner- friendly projects that show how to apply surface-design techniques to simple pieces such as coasters, a cheeseboard, a wall hanging, plates, tumblers, vases, planters, and more. Throughout the book, skill-building is front and center, with tips and tricks to help you crack the code and make pieces you’re proud of. Gallery work from some of today’s top ceramics artists is sure to inspire potters of all levels. What will you make first? For beginners and those returning to ceramics, the Essential Ceramics Skills series from Quarry Books offer the fundamentals along with fresh, contemporary, and simple projects that build skills progressively. Explore even more ceramics techniques with:The Beginner’s Guide to Wheel Throwing and The Beginner’s Guide to Hand Building. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quarry Books (September 5, 2023)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0760381399


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 97


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.4 x 9 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #198,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #34 in Ceramic Art #46 in Pottery & Ceramic Craft (Books) #53 in Beadwork


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    • Beautiful imagery and detailed instructions
Review Image by Howard L Howard L
Review Image by Howard L Howard L
Review Image by Howard L Howard L
This is the best book on beginner pottery I've bought. The explanations are detailed, insightful and show true expertise. They're also easy to follow. And the photos are stunning.
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2023 by Howard L Howard L
    • Could've been a video instead of a book, fine for a hobbyist romanticizing dreams of being a potter
Decent, definitely caters to a beginner. Not necessarily a complete novice, maybe someone who just got interested in ceramics enough to sign up for a beginner throwing/wheel class but art has always been a hobby of interest for them. And also is 2-3 weeks away from beginning the glazing part of the process. For context, I'm speaking someone who isn't new to making art, has done ceramics in the distant past in school before but never delved into the medium, and just happened to have finished a beginner wheel class a few days ago w/ my very beginner non-art background partner. Intro is "Yeah, that's right. You are an artist!" hype up and some of Emily's background and views on ceramics. This is accessible for young people and new students. Felt a bit juvenile to me as this established the vanilla "teaching a hobbyist" vibe for me.. I find some of the tools section to be more catering to someone considering starting their own studio which I find pretty unlikely for someone in the beginner audience for this book. More likely they're a part of a communal studio be it a local business or your school's. I think there's a lot to know about the pros and cons of this and the restrictions those might impart and how to take advantage of this experience. For example, there's a lot of talk of multiple clay types, tools, gilding, etc yet since my local studio (which caters mostly to beginners) only uses white clay (various clay types in a communal studio seems to be too messy to risk tainting other people's work) so knowing this possibility is something I think very important to inform a beginner of. Also the toxic gilding fluid in firing means they probably won't allow in their kiln, where things are constantly firing and people are always present, and to not necessarily get your hopes up etc. Also no discussion of actual $ amount costs of things, I understand with inflation this can date a book but honestly a ballpark, even keeping the year in mind, would be helpful. My favorite part is seeing (albeit brief, occasional, 2-4 photos on a few pages) featuring of other people's work. Her art style is a bit minimal in a cutesy contemporary way for my personal liking. Overall, the information is vague enough to be pretty unuseful to me even though I consider myself a beginner to ceramics. I find I get more information from videos online, being able to SEE the process while simultaneous hearing the artist speak. Although image heavy, it's also got big chunks of large font text that I eventually just begin skimming because it was friendly and informal in a way that I felt like I was reading a YT video. This makes me wish there was a video version of the book that came with this while still having this physical book to refer back to whenever I want/need to recall something heard in the video. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2023 by Artist
    • Beautiful Photos, Not for Total Beginners
This book is very attractive and has many beautiful photos inside. It is broken up into different sections, each focused on an aspect of decorating pottery. Around the third section, it explains that the book is not for total beginners, but those who already have some understanding of the craft. That being said, this book is something I would have to work up to. I still enjoyed reading about the techniques and I especially enjoyed the last section, which includes step-by-step instructions for projects. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2023 by Joy Kuhns
    • Great primer
The Beginner's Guide to Decorating Pottery - An Introduction to Glazes, Patterns, Inlay, Luster, and Dimensional Designs by Emily Reinhardt is a book sure to excite any potter looking to up their decorative game. The author reinforces the risks of silica dust and offers easy to follow guidelines for mitigating this risk. One gap that I noticed was the lack of specific information about ensuring food safe glazes are used on mugs, bowls and other dinnerware, since this is often where beginners start their pottery journey and they may assume that all glazes meet this standard. I was pleased to see that this was a great primer on the impact of clay and clay color on this finished product. This book was an excellent jumping off point for experimenting with underglazes, glazes and other surface decorations. (I reviewed an advance reader copy and all opinions are my own.) This is one book that any potter will want on their reference shelf to return to for inspiration time and time again. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2023 by CS
    • Great Book
Great decorating book with some instructions. Great for pottery, but the concept can be translated to a number of crafts. Fun and easy read
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023 by J. Watter
    • More advanced than I expected.
Taking pottery classes was on my bucket list and and after enjoying a few, I thought this would be a good introduction into planning glazes and designs in a more thoughtful manner. Make no mistake, the book is beautiful and well designed with great photos and descriptions. What became clear was that I am much more of a novice than I understood. This book will probably be better as I gain a little more experience. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2023 by Staci
    • Comprehensive, nice illustrations
Review Image by Christine CHAN Christine CHAN
Review Image by Christine CHAN Christine CHAN
I’m planning to take pottery classes again after almost 50 years and I thought this book could give me ideas on the decoration process and I was not disappointed. This book is quite comprehensive although the author’s decoration style is not the same as my style. The techniques are mostly still valid for me though. I do like the detailed instructions and illustrations. It gets me thinking about how I can use the information to create my own style of pottery decoration. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023 by Christine CHAN Christine CHAN
    • Great tips and instructions, but too wordy for me
I have no doubt that the author of this book is a wonderful artist and has a great story about her art and how she developed into an artist. All great stuff, but I was looking more for a step-by-step guide, with examples, on how to do pottery projects. This book does contain the information, but you have to wade through a lot of dialogue to get there. The provided approaches, steps, and ideas are wonderful and this book is going to be very helpful in creating some great art work, so I do not mean to be too critical of the author. It does get a beginner to a point of being able to make really nice pottery. It provided simple solutions to difficult problems and is easy to read and understand. If you are a beginner in pottery, this book will be very helpful for you. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2023 by Brian Gatt

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