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Hand Building Techniques

by Joaquim Chavarria
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Overview

This volume begins with the modeling of cubes, cones, spheres, and other basic volumes. Students then learn coiling, pinching, using strips, slabs, and lumps and how to apply them to bowls, bottles, cups, boxes, and sculpture, with information on kilns, firing, and finishing processes included.

About the Author, Joaquim Chavarria

Joaquim Chavarria, a professor of ceramics and sculpture at the Escuela Massana in Barcelona, Spain, is also the author of the best-selling The Big Book of Ceramics.

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Book Details

Published
May 1, 1999
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Publications
Pages
64
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780823005918

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