Painting on Ceramics

by Kate Byrne

Book Overview

More and more people are turning to the popular and rewarding craft of painting on ceramics. Now this imaginative book provides you with a surplus of ideas to copy and all the skills you will need to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571456694
• ISBN13: 9781571456694
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Laurel Glen Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Detailed, practical, and user friendly

In Painting On Ceramics, expert ceramic artist Kate Byrne draws upon her many years of expertise and experience to provide the reader with a compendium of tips and techniques suitable for even the most novice ceramic art student for tableware, decorative pieces, and ceramic gifts ranging in styles from contemporary to tribal, 1950s to floral. Utilizing eight contemporary tableware projects for the home, Byrne shows exactly what is needed and how to proceed step-by-step. She even suggests design alternatives. Offering comprehensive, detailed, practical, user friendly, "how to" information, Painting On Ceramics is profusely illustrated with more than 140 color photographs and informative illustrations. Of special value is Byrne's instructions on using underglazes on bisqueware, and acrylics on glazed china. If you aspire to become a ceramic artist, professionally or just for fun, begin by reading Kate Byrne's Painting On Ceramics.