Kevin Millward

Surface Decoration (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A practical guide to all forms of decoration for pots and sculpture.

This step-by-step guide encourages you to explore the full range of surface treatment techniques and teaches you how to obtain a professional finish to your work by suggesting an appropriate finish choice.

Surface Decoration looks at all manner of surface decoration techniques, at every stage of the ceramic process and from a practical perspective explains how to achieve these effects. The book explores a variety of innovative and contemporary approaches to surface finish including sgrafitto, resist methods, sprigging, trailing, glaze layering, lustre, transfer, impressing, incising and textural methods amongst others.

This is the perfect guide for any ceramic artist interested in exploring new surface decoration techniques.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789941180
• Artikelnr.: 63275873

Autorenporträt

Kevin Millward started his training at art school and then went on to work at a number of studios including Cooper's Pottery in Cheshire, the Gladstone Pottery Museum and working with David Leach. Later, he was approached by Harrison Mayer, now Potterycrafts, to be their craft advisor, helping potters, schools, colleges and small industry with making and technical problems as well as giving workshops and demonstrations all over the UK and Europe. He then left to set up his own studio in Leek, making stoneware and porcelain, and started teaching part time at his old college, which led to lecturing ceramics at Bucks New University and the University of Westminster. He has more recently been series consultant to The Great Pottery Throw Down.