Electric Kiln Ceramics A Guide To Clays And Glazes

Break break beginning with an introduction to electric kilns and the various clays and glazes best suited to their use the book addresses all aspects of using these kilns including appropriate ceramic surfaces imagery creation strategies loading and firing and safety practices.

Electric kiln ceramics a guide to clays and glazes.

Beginning with an introduction to electric kilns and the various clays and glazes best suited to their use the book addresses all aspects of using these kilns including appropriate ceramic surfaces imagery creation strategies loading and firing and safety practices. While firing may not be the most visually exciting part of the ceramic making process it is the most critical part as it ensures the creative energy put forth in all previous. The same glaze in a gas kiln where the oxygen level has been reduced may look more earthy and organic. Apr 18 2012 anna marie wright rated it liked it.

Each chapter is logically organized making searching for specific information easy. An owners manual for your studio. Start by marking electric kiln ceramics. With the wealth of information on making work decorating work glazing work and firing work this book is not.

The electric kiln has helped to open the doors of the ceramic world to more and more people due to its convenience ease of use and economical benefits and this new edition of electric kiln ceramics is a must read for anyone firing electric kilns. A guide to clays glazes electric kilns sku. A guide to clays and glazes. Mostly show and tell and potter interviews which is nice.

Get the best results from your electric kiln break break electric kilns offer the ceramist safety convenience and reliability and have gained tremendous popularity among a wide range of ceramists break break in this third edition of electric kiln ceramics noted ceramist and teacher richard zakin provides information to help you make the best possibly use of your electric kiln break. A reduction atmosphere tends to create darker more intense glazes. A guide to clays and glazes as want to read. Beginning with an introduction to electric kilns and the various clays and glazes best suited to their use the book addresses all aspects of using these kilns including appropriate ceramic surfaces imagery creation strategies loading and firing and safety practices.

The image that many immediately conjure when envisioning a ceramics artist is of an individual throwing clay or molding a figure not standing idly in front of a kiln. Glazes fired in the oxidation atmosphere of an electric kiln tend to be clean bright colors. Electric kiln ceramics is separated into three chapters on clay glaze and the electric kiln but the book covers each of these in such depth that each chapter could be a book on its own.