Beginner's Guide to Handbuilding - Paperback

by Anna Spillman (Author)

Clay is a material rich in history and possibilities for art making, and handbuilding pottery is the oldest use of the medium. This comprehensive beginner's guide offers a unique place to learn the different handbuilding pottery techniques of pinching, coiling, and slab rolling. Once you have experience with a few basic techniques, you can make your own functional tableware, vessels, sculpture, installations, and mixed media--the possibilities in ceramics are endless.

What is handbuilding?

Handbuilding is a ceramics technique that allows you to create forms with clay and your hands, without using a throwing wheel. Before ceramicists invented the wheel, handbuilding was the only way they could create functional and artistic ceramic forms. The oldest known ceramic artifact was handbuilt and is dated as early as 28,000 BCE. All you need to get started are your clay, your hands, and a few simple tools.

Handbuilding is an ancient pottery-making technique that involves creating forms without a pottery wheel, using the hands, fingers, and simple tools. The most common handbuilding techniques are pinch pottery, coil building, and slab building.

In this book, I will be teaching you in details everything you need to be an expert in ceramics pottery. The tools, skills, techniques, tips and tricks to create very beautiful ceramic art works ranging from pinching pots, slab pots, coiled pots and mugs.

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