The New Ceramics: Surface Decoration by Kevin Millard

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.

Table of Contents
Introduction

1. Raw Techniques
2. Texture
3. Stamps
4. Resist and Masking
5. Slip
6. Painting
7. Drawing
8. Glaze Effects
9. Glaze Application
10. On-glaze Techniques

Appendix
Glossary
Additional References
Index

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2018
Imprint: Herbert Press
ISBN: 9781912217724
Paperback 112 pages
120 colour images
246 x 189 mm