Download or read book Finding One s Way with Clay written by Paulus Berensohn and published by Clay Biscuit Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Play Your Way Sane written by Clay Drinko and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop negative thoughts, assuage anxiety, and live in the moment with these fun, easy games from improv expert Clay Drinko. If you’ve been feeling lost lately, you’re not alone! Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans were experiencing record levels of loneliness and anxiety. And in our current political turmoil, it’s safe to say that people are looking for new tools to help them feel more present, positive, and in sync with the world. So what better way to get there than play? In Play Your Way Sane, Dr. Clay Drinko offers 120 low-key, accessible activities that draw on the popular principles of improv comedy to help you tackle your everyday stress and reconnect with the people around you. Divided into twelve fun sections, including “Killing Debbie Downer” and “Thou Shalt Not Be Judgy,” the games emphasize openness, reciprocation, and active listening as the keys to a mindful and satisfying life. Whether you’re looking to improve your personal relationships, find new meaning at work, or just survive our trying times, Play Your Way Sane offers serious self-help with a side of Second City sass.
Download or read book Play with Clay written by Jenny Pinkerton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow a colorful blob of modeling dough as it forms a ball, rolls into a snake, coils into a pot, and more in this adorable board book! In this charming story, children can learn the simple lesson that change is a constant--and they can learn it through art and play! The straightforward narrative paired with quirky visual humor makes this the perfect board book for budding creative kids.
Download or read book Pottery for Beginners written by Kara Leigh Ford and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don’t need to be a master potter to create stunning handmade ceramic tableware and decorations. Kara Leigh Ford, pro potter and founder of Kara’s Pottery Club, teaches the basics with easy-to-follow steps and photos from her own studio. Her inviting instructions draw out the innate creativity in all of us, so all readers need are curiosity and a few key tools and materials to get started. Readers will love her unpretentious, can-do approach and her signature, modern meets earthy pottery style. The clay journey begins with handbuilding—no wheel needed! Readers will learn relaxing techniques to create projects like a charming slab mug, a hip coil planter and a textured pinch-pot teapot. With newfound clay confidence, readers can tackle wheelthrowing and present family and friends with stoneware bowls, dinner plates, bud vases and more. With an overview of glazing and an array of exciting decorating techniques, readers can develop their own personal style. Kara covers the basics on kilns and helps readers explore accessible options like firing their work at a local studio or sharing a community kiln. Once readers take their first pot out of the kiln, they’ll be amazed by their beautiful, pro-quality creations.
Download or read book The Grain of the Clay written by Allen S. Weiss and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceramics give pleasure to our everyday lives, from the beauty of a vase’s elegant curves to the joy of a meal served upon a fine platter. Ceramics originate in a direct engagement with the earth and maintain a unique place in the history of the arts. In this book, Allen S. Weiss sharpens our perception of and increases our appreciation for ceramics, all the while providing a critical examination of how and why we collect them. Weiss examines the vast stylistic range of ceramics and investigates both the theoretical and personal reasons for viewing, using, and collecting them. Relating ceramics to other arts and practices—especially those surrounding food—he explores their different uses such as in the celebrated tea ceremony of Japan. Most notably, he considers how works previously viewed as crafts have found their rightful way into museums, as well as how this new-found engagement with finely wrought natural materials may foster an increased ecological sensitivity. The result is a wide-ranging and sensitive look at a crucial part of our material culture.
Download or read book Clay in the Potter s Hands written by Diana Pavlac Glyer and published by Treehousestudios. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic devotional, updated with page after page of full-color photographs and a fresh, new design! Most Christians have heard that God is the potter and we are the clay, but Diana Pavlac Glyer, who has spent countless hours at the potter's wheel, shows in this remarkable book that this is far more than a casual metaphor. As God hovers over His creation, centering us or shaping us or even restoring us from collapse, He may transform us in ways we never imagined. "In one hundred pages, Diana Glyer offers her readers fifteen marvelous chapters for reflection and more. You can feel her love of pottery and join her as she tells the story of creating something beautiful. Each chapter of 'Clay in the Potter's Hands' offers the reader an opportunity to accompany the potter at work. The author gently and easily moves from the potter's wheel to texts from the Bible that offer examples of each stage of development of the artist's work. These are accompanied by marvelous insights and questions for the reader to consider; then each chapter concludes with a prayer that brings the entire segment together." Father John Chandler, S.J., Honolulu, Hawaii "This is a really good book! It manages to combine depth and simplicity, which is rare, but I think it is the way it treats our experience of pain and broken-ness which really sets it apart. The chapters on Returning, Repairing and Redeeming were especially moving and significant for me. This book is going to be so helpful to so many people!" Malcolm Guite, Priest, Poet, Chaplain at Girton College, Cambridge, England
Download or read book Hands in Clay written by Charlotte F. Speight and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a window to a lifetime of experiment and creative expression in clay, as a glimpse into the wellsprings of inspiration, and as a story of humanity, Hands in Clay offers a compelling introduction to ceramics.
Download or read book Carve Your Clay written by Hilda Carr and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apply interesting and inspired surface techniques to your ceramic work through twenty step-by-step projects, including a combed mug, faceted jug, and more. Carve Your Clay takes you through creative techniques that produce amazing, dynamic results, including inlay, piercing, sgraffito, etching, relief carving, wire cutting, and more. Gain new skills as you complete twenty projects featuring author Hilda Carr’s signature style, each with clear step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instruction to achieve beautiful results. This comprehensive book includes an easy guide on how to create basic forms, as well as glazing and firing techniques. Whether you are new to ceramics or are a more experienced potter looking to explore new surface design techniques, Carve Your Clay will educate and inspire you. “Profusely and effective illustrated throughout, a complete course of thoroughly user friendly and artist inspiring instruction making it an ideal DIY manual.” —Midwest Book Review
Download or read book Starshine Clay written by Kamilah Aisha Moon and published by Stahlecker Selections. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems run the gamut between human striving and suffering, ultimately imbued with a tenacious hope
Download or read book Pinch Your Pottery written by Jacqui Atkin and published by Quarry. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pinch Your Pottery, Jacqui Atkin, one of the UK's foremost ceramic teacher-writers, shows the range that this simple technique is able to achieve with a superb collection of step-by-step pinched projects.
Download or read book A Novel History of Clay written by Paul Palul Rideout and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The known history of ceramics is over 30,000 years old. The outcome of man's discovery of the properties of fired clay opened a technological portal that remains open today. Acknowledging there are many excellent books on ceramics, Palul has written a series of short stories in a historical novel format, showing unique characters actually experiencing clay in their lives - making discoveries and technical advances, creating objects in their times and places - a book that is not only technically informative, but educational and interesting to read as well. Palul draws on 50 years experience as a ceramic artist and 35 years teaching the subject for Shasta College in Redding, California. Book 1 of the series covers three major clay discoveries during prehistoric times between 30,000 and 9,000 BC.
Download or read book Ceramics for Kids written by Mary Ellis and published by Lark Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to clay and pottery, plus instructions for twenty-five projects using various methods, such as a pinch and coil Japanese tea bowl and a press-molded hanging bird bath.
Download or read book English Lit written by Bernard Clay and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical poetry from one of Kentucky’s rising Affrilachian literary stars. Bernard Clay’s autobiographical poetry debut, English Lit, juxtaposes the roots of Black male identity against an urban and rural Kentucky landscape. Hailed as one of the most authentic voices of his generation, Clay artfully renders coming-of-age in the predominately Black West End of Louisville, Kentucky. Balancing the spirited grit of a farmer and the careful lyricism of a poet, English Lit is a triumph of new Affrilachian—African American and Appalachian—literature.
Download or read book Clay s Way written by Blair Mastbaum and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wanna-be punk rocker who writes Haiku poetry, 15 year-old Sam, is fed up with his middle-class parents, his geeky best friend, and his inability to do the raddest skateboard tricks. Then he meets Clay.
Download or read book Here Comes Everybody written by Clay Shirky and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it�s ever been: unpaid volunteers can build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and high street banks, and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone. The results of this new world of easy collaboration can be both good (young people defying an oppressive government with a guerrilla ice-cream eating protest) and bad (girls sharing advice for staying dangerously skinny) but it�s here and, as Clay Shirky shows, it�s affecting � well, everybody. For the first time, we have the tools to make group action truly a reality. And they�re going to change our whole world.
Download or read book Etched in Clay written by Andrea Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Dave the Potter, an enslaved man and talented potter who carved poetry on his pottery.
Download or read book Many Shapes of Clay written by Kenesha Sneed and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern-day fable about grief, diversity, and family connections, a young girl discovers the joys--and pain--of the creative process. Winner of the Bookstagang Best of 2021: Best Conversation Starter Picture Books of 2021. Longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize. Ezra Jack Keats Award Honoree. Eisha lives with her mother, a ceramic artist, who helps her make a special shape out of a piece of clay. The shape reminds Eisha of her father, of the ocean, of a lemon. As Eisha goes through her neighborhood doing errands with her mother, the piece of clay hardens and then shatters into pieces when Eisha taps it. In poignant and powerful words and pictures, Kenesha Sneed shows how Eisha learns to live with the sense of loss and of the joyful power of making something new out of what is left behind. Illustrated with Sneed's bold colors, graphic lines, and gestural textures, the book celebrates diversity and shares a gentle message that we all have the ability to heal and create.
