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Author: Joaquin Chavarria
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

18 reviews
Sales Rank: 65406

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 9.6 x 0.5

ISBN: 0823005941
Dewey Decimal Number: 738
EAN: 9780823005949

Publication Date: May 15, 2000
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provides minimal overview of few techniques July 31, 2006
6 out of 9 found this review helpful

Almost any other pottery book out there will give you more detail on the techniques of surface decoration offered here. Most of them will also provide you with more techniques and more inspiring photos to illustrate the techniques.

He does provide a recipe for Egyptian paste which I had not seen before, and seems quite good at transposing pre-planned graphic designs onto pots in a way that makes tham appear to be pencil crayoned on.

For any other technique, try a different book.

3 out of 5 stars

wasn't what i was looking for March 21, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

This book is thin, has a few ideas that wern't taught in class. I was looking for a book more about glazing and texturizing then how to cut stuff out of a slab of clay and glue it to your pot.

its a cute little book.

3 out of 5 stars

Old standards and a few new twists. September 9, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful

Most of the techniques in the book I had done before. A very few were new. The book was very clear and the pictures were very helpful.

4 out of 5 stars

Love this Book! August 21, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

This is a great book for pottery hand-builders. I haven't taken to throwing pots but love handbuilding. I found the ideas in this book to spur on my own creativity. "Their" ideas caused many of my own to flow. The only drawback and curiousity is that one of the items, shown on the front cover, isn't covered inside the book.

3 out of 5 stars

Disappointing but still useful October 23, 2002
61 out of 63 found this review helpful

I bought this book for decorating techniques (that is the title, after all), but found that a good part of the book covers handbuilding to the detriment of covering decorating in detail. For example, there several pages on using engobes, but nothing explaining engobes v. slip. In another section on using engobes and oxides, percentages aren't given, nor are details given about preparing tobacco water. As a general overview of decorating techniques, this book is ok; I did get a couple of new techniques from it making it worth the purchase price, but I expected more.

One additional note: the publisher should make sure books like this have an index. With no index, I can't find the all the techniques that use oxides or slips, etc.

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