Creative Pottery: A Complete Guide to Designing, Making and Decorating Ceramics

Creative Pottery is the essential practical handbook for every aspiring potter.

Covering all aspects of the creative process – from shaping and moulding the clay through to the refinements of glazing and firing – it shows you not only how to create beautiful pottery, but also how to develop your own individual style.

Complete with over 30 practical pottery projects.

More than 300 illustrations in full colour and black and white.

Contents include:

Understanding Design
Planning a design • Sources of ideas • Recording and using source material •Tracing and transferring designs
The Medium and the Method
Using moulds • Working with a wheel • Trimming
Firing, glazing and decorating
Using a kiln • Firing principles • Glazing and glazes
Decorating your work • Colouring clay • Slips and slip decoration • Post-biscuit decoration