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Carve Your Clay: Techniques to Bring the Ceramics Surface to Life

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Format: Hardcover, Illustrated


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Learn how to apply interesting and inspired surface techniques to your ceramic work through 20 step-by-step projects. Carve Your Clay takes you through creative techniques that produce amazing, dynamic results, including inlay, piercing, sgraffito, etching, relief carving, wire cutting, and more. Gain new skills as you complete 20 projects featuring author Hilda Carr's signature style, each with clear step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instruction to achieve beautiful results. This comprehensive book includes an easy guide on how to create basic forms, as well as glazing and firing techniques. Whether you are new to ceramics or are a more experienced potter looking to explore new surface design techniques, Carve Your Clay will educate and inspire you. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quarry Books; Illustrated edition (August 18, 2020)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 163159849X


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 94


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.85 x 0.8 x 10 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #189,663 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #20 in Sculpting Technique #40 in Pottery & Ceramic Craft (Books)


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    • Love This!
Great pictures and step by step instruction with simple tools!
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022 by Deluge
    • Beautiful book with great information!
I love ceramics that comes with texture and warmth. This book will help me to have more knowledge and technics to explore at the ceramic classes I go to. I’m excited to try what I learn through the book! This book has more information than I expected. Also I am a fan of her ceramic and the book has beautiful photos. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2020 by Hah
    • Simply Amazing
Hilda is an ‘Instagram friend’, and the OG of carving clay. So much of my work is inspired by her. This book is simply amazing - beautiful photographs, and thorough explanations that cover so many different techniques and styles. It’s an absolute treasure in my ceramics library.
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2020 by KKinGA
    • Best carving techniques I’ve seen!
This book is clear, straight-forward, simple, and well-illustrated. I’m going to try every technique that she has demonstrated in it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2021 by Donna E. Kline
    • Very practical
Very helpful techniques. Illustrations are very helpful
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2021 by Jerome J. Epplin
    • My husband loved it!
Bought this as one of my husband's aniversary gifts. He is a potter and loved the techniques and cool pictures in this book.
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2023 by Lemons87
    • Three pages of actual carving technique
There are three pages of actual carving technique. There are better sources of information about this topic on youtube for free. Don't waste your money on this book.
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2020 by William Serba
    • Lots of pictures but carving not as much as expected & spends time on wheel work, too
This book has lots and lots of pictures. It is is easy to read and what they show is often very clear. The book first goes over types of clay and then shows you the tools you use for carving or sgraffito. After that it shows you how to build the basic forms (mainly on the wheel) and then how to carve different designs. Some of the carving sections are very slow and methodically detailed. (Which I love!) And then there are pages which just show the end product as examples of what you could do. I found this a tad disappointing as there were a couple of texturing and carving photos/tiles where I wasn't exactly sure how they were made. In those cases I wish they had shown actual instruction. Also it seems that the patterns need more precision and using a ruler or making guide would help making them more evenly placed. Another thing is that this book has many photos dedicated to wheel work and not carving. It does not really go over how to how to hand build basic shapes so people without a wheel or with less experience making shapes maybe limited to tiles or slumped shapes like bowls. Yes, this is about carving but it is should be titled Sgraffito and Wheel Work instead. It is a solid book with beautiful pictures and the price is good for what you get but the actual carving instructions do not fill up most of the book and some buyers might be disappointed with the 'lean' carving content. Therefore, going through this book is very fast if you are only interested in ideas for carving. However, what the author does go over in sgraffito is done very well. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2020 by Kindle Customer

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