Making Ceramic Sculpture: Techniques * Projects * Inspirations ( a Lark Ceramics Book)

by Raul Acero

Book Overview

For centuries, clay has been used not only to make vessels but also to create sculptures. For beginning clayworkers and for experienced potters who can't stand to make one more mug, this guide provides step-by-step instructions to sculpting figurative and non-figurative forms in clay. It explains how to make seven sculptures: a resting cat, a whimsical fish, a colorful bird in a tree pedestal, a mythological bird-human creature, an abstract head,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579901751
• ISBN13: 9781579901752
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Terrific Book!

I absolutely love this book. I think it's the author's tone throughout the book that I truly enjoy. Some sculpture books seem sterile in tone as I read them. Not this book - it was a joy to read and I'm so glad that I have it in my library.