A Glaze of Color: Creating Color and Design On Ceramics

This is a reference more than a bedtime story. It has good, basic info about a umber of decorating processes and it's written in a straight-forward manner without a lot of blah blah blah. I'm sure advanced potters will find less new info in it than I did, but it's good to have on the shelf to leaf through when you need ideas. I'd recommend it. Effective illustrations, good presentation. Certainly worth the price—especially if you need to build a library for a class or for yourself.

My pottery instructor recommended this book and I bought one for each of my classmates. I got them used and they were in excellent condition. They arrived quickly and everyone was thrilled with their gift. Used books like this are definitely the way to go!

This was a really disappointing purchase. There may have been some good techniques embedded somewhere, but I was so put off by the sloppy and amateurish work shown that I just couldn't bring myself to give it a thorough read.I couldn't tell who was the intended audience. It was too confusing for the beginner, and nothing new or exciting for the more advanced. Lots of important information was left out. For instance, how many coats of glaze were used? The book seemed mostly for the "paint bar" crowd rather than the serious potter.

This was a gift for my mother, who's a ceramic painter.She just loved it! The quality of the pictures and the text are just wonderful.Thanks!

great designs and easy to follow instructions

Great product

I received the book fast in practically new. The book is beautifully illustrated and with easy steps to glazing your projects. Thanks

Over the past couple of decades I have edited art instruction books too numerous to count, including this one. I've been indifferent about many I've worked on that've found success anyway and enthusiastic about others that haven't necessarily found favor in the marketplace. So my personal preferences certainly haven't made me an authority about public reception or perception (or sales figures).I don't give praise lightly. But when I edit something that offers me truly useful and valuable information, that really makes me want to revisit my old practicing-artist self, I can't help but express my enthusiasm. And A Glaze of Color made me enthusiastic. It really inspired me to take up the craft of painting again, to just indulge myself in working with color again, no matter what the medium.So, discount my positive prejudice here if you must, but next time you're in a book store searching for some kind of artistic inspiration, for yourself or for your kids or for anyone, please look for Jane Davies's book A Glaze of Color, even just to thumb through it.(Hey, I'm a freelancer, so have no stake in encouraging profits for the publisher, author, or, least of all, myself.)

This is a pretty basic book.I had hoped it would contain a wealth of ideas and recipes for glazes. However, it assumes the use of ready-made glaze from the outset and so is limited to an array of ideas for the basic decoration of biscuit ware.A misleading title in my view.