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The Potter’s Guide to Ceramic Surfaces by Jo ConnellThis practical directory details a comprehensive range of decoration techniques, from processes at the raw clay stage (including textures, moulds and painting) to under-glaze decoration, special glaze firings and alternative firing techniques. Designed for both the novice and the experience potter, this guide will inspire and encourage potters to explore new techniques and combine them in a fresh and creative way. Apple 2002 (Krause, USA, 2002). £14.99 (also in Germany, Spain, Netherlands, France & Japan) Colouring Clay by Jo ConnellA handbook on how to introduce colour into clay, and various methods of working with coloured clay. It briefly covers natural colour found in clays and how to use this to best advantage. It thoroughly looks at colouring your own clay through adding stains and oxides, and the various methods of preparing clay and slips, as well as how to blend properly and repeat results consistently. It looks at a range of making techniques using coloured clays (with specific ceramic artists as examples), including coiling and pinching with colours, marbling and agate, using moulds to create neriage or millefiori, textural effects, inlaying, sprigging and slipcasting. Each technique shows how various artists put it to use, with step by step sequences where needed, and displays finished pieces for further inspiration. A&C Black, October 2007. £15.99 (also in USA & Germany) "Featured in CERAMIC REVIEW issue no. 242 March/April 2010" Read more Jo’s work is also featured in the following publications:Colour in Clay by Jane Waller (Crowood Press) |