The Encyclopedia Of Sculpting Techniques

Mills (president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors) has gathered the important concepts, techniques, and materials together with many bandw photos of known works, alphabetized it, supplied a few cross-references, and given it the title Encyclopedia... It is not our idea of an encyclopedia: lacks an index and bibliographical citations. A good book, but not a good reference. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A guide to the techiques of sculpture covers such topics as materials, equipment, assemblage, kiln firing, moldmaking, welding, and use of color.

Presents an alphabetical survey of the techniques, concepts, and materials of sculpture.

The latest in our best-selling Encyclopedia of Art series focuses on one of the most popular and versatile mediums available to crafters. This comprehensive guide offers directions on making decorative boxes, mosaics, and miniature models, as well as beads, buttons, and jewelry. Large, clear photographs demonstrate over 50 techniques, including basic skills such as rolling, color mixing, marbling, and baking; progressing to more challenging methods of shaping, molding, and sculpting clay. A 16-page gallery of work by renowned polymer clay artists demonstrates what can be achieved and provides crafters with inspiration.

An introduction to sculpting discusses clay modeling, molding, and casting and includes projects using wire mesh, wood, and other objects to illustrate direct building techniques.

"The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques deals with all aspects of materials, techniques, conservation, and restoration in both traditional and nontraditional media, including ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, works on paper, textiles, video, digital art, and more. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in The Dictionary of Art and adding new entries, this work is a comprehensive reference resource for artists, art dealers, collectors, curators, conservators, students, researchers, and scholars." "Similar in design to The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, this one-volume reference work contains articles of various lengths in alphabetical order. The shorter, more factual articles are combined with larger, multi-section articles tracing the development of materials and techniques in various geographical locations. The Encyclopedia provides unparalleled scope and depth, and it offers fully updated articles and bibliography as well as over 150 illustrations and color plates." "The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques offers scholarly information on materials and techniques in art for anyone who studies, creates, collects, or deals in works of art. The entries are written to be accessible to a wide range of readers, and the work is designed as a reliable and convenient resource covering this essential area in the visual arts."