Helen Bates on sat 7 jul 01
Hi All,
A bunch more URLS from May, rechecked tonight...
Ceramic Tutorials on line
http://www.ceramicstudies.com
by Clayarter Victor Bryant:
The story of 10,000 years of Clay Art
The full syllabus is ambitious...
Presently available online:
PART I: PREHISTORIC AND ANCIENT
1.(1.1) Origins in Prehistory.
2.(1.2) Invention of the Potter's Wheel.
3.(1.3) Earliest Firings & Kilns.
4.(1.4) Earliest Frits and Glazes.
To come: the rest of PART I
5.(1.5) Ceramics in Crete & Mycenae.
6.(1.6) Ceramics in Classical Greece.
7.(1.7) Ceramics in Prehistoric Europe.
8.(1.8) Ceramics in the Roman World.
PART II: CERAMICS IN CHINA.
PART III: ISLAMIC INNOVATIONS.
PART IV: EUROPEAN POTTERY - 12th TO 18TH C.
PART V: 'ETHNIC POTTERY'.
PART VI: 19-20TH CENTURY ARTIST-POTTERY
Full index:
http://www.victor.bryant.hemscott.net/index.html
(Click "Full Tutorial List")
Don't miss Victor's own work. (Click on his Pot Stamp)
Leon Lynch - Irish Potter
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~designondot/
Has page of glaze recipes - all high in Barium
(he warns they aren't for food use, and his own vessels aren't "utilitarian")
Also a page of throwing photos for one of his wiggly teapot forms.
Stephen Jepson's "Claynow A Perspective Of Ceramics"
http://claynow.com/tour1.htm
Jepson's collection of ceramics covering about 1968 to 1999.
Potters represented: Donna Darnall;
Stephen Jepson; Richard Hensley; Robert Anderson;
Susan Icove; Steve Howell; Silvie Granatelli;
John Glick; Tom Coleman; Elaine Coleman;
Doug Dacey; Tom Shafer; Jerry Berta;
Tom Turner; Susan Brown; David Nelson;
Mark Peters; Don Davis; Susan Hudson Vey;
Mary Bowren; Bill Sax; Nick Joerling;
Steve Louchs; Ellen Shanken; Jane Piser;
Karen-Ann Shlomberg Windchild; Marsha Owen; Tim Mather;
Arts Connect Ed Database:
http://www.artsconnected.org/
A Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center site:
Enter a search for "ceramics" for 9 pages of enlargeable ceramics
from around the world, and over the ages.
An absolutely wonderful site.
All thumbnails can be twice enlarged.
Click on biggest enlargement for further zooming and ability
for very close examination of the pieces.
Owen Sound Artists Co-operative (Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada)
http://www.osartistsco-op.com/
Particularly of interest is the pinch pot "How to" photos.
http://www.osartistsco-op.com/how.html
Raku Kiln building
http://www.bathpotters.demon.co.uk/kilnbild.htm
Steve Mills' plans and directions
Magic of Fire
http://www.ceramicsoftware.com/magic/toc.htm
Web site for e-book "The Magic of Fire" by Tony Hansen
(Table of Contents & some good discussion of basic glaze and clay information)
ClayWays Pottery Studio and Gallery
http://www.clayways.com/r_resources.html
Teaching facility in Austin, Texas
subtopics:
links:
Professional Potters
Organzations / Schools / Shows
Manufacturers / Suppliers
Glaze Calculation / Glaze Resources
Magazines & Periodicals
Sites About Pottery/Ceramics
glazes
notebook
weights & measurements
central texas shows
periodic table
glossary
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Ceramic Arts
http://www.ikts.fhg.de/vl/VL.artistic.ceramics.html
Extensive list of ceramics workers with some International Content
Charley Farrero (Clayarter)
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/handwave/hcharley.html
Charley Farrero is also online here:
http://www.saskterra.sk.ca/profile.htm
Click "See previous featured members" for profiles
on Saskatchewan potters Mel Bolen & Sandra Ledingham.
Sask Terra
http://www.saskterra.sk.ca/
Saskatchewa Potters Association
Page of links to gallery shows 1997 - 2001
Many excellent potters' work viewable here.
http://www.saskterra.sk.ca/exhibit.htm
The Alberta Potters' Association
http://www.members.home.net/afavre/
Includes gallery and links to members with web pages
Link to a photo of the late Peggy Heer
http://www.members.home.net/afavre/historyphotos.htm
(Note: the link to Peggy's work is no longer active)
Barbara Coultry's "On the Way to Clay"
http://home.nycap.rr.com/way2clay/index.html
As she writes: "Ceramics & other great sites
plus potters' tools made from junk..."
Arkansas Pottery
http://www.flash.net/~gemoore/arkref.htm
G. Moore's collection of Arkansas pottery.
Historic American art pottery of Arkansas (early 20th. century.)
PDF File: (Author is Wayne Higby)
Lots of text but several interesting pieces for visual feast too.
http://www.ceramicbulletin.org/months/Sep99/Higby.pdf
Visit this link -only- if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF files.
(Downloadable free many places on the www but here's the company's home page:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html)
Pottery Markets.
http://www.potfest.co.uk/
Potfest Homepage. Studio ceramics from the UK and Europe
This site is immense. And it's wonderful!
I'm planning a week's visit just in that part of cyberspace
(just as soon as I get my chores over with...)
Helen :-)
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Helen Bates
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