About this item
From pinch pots to coiled boxes to soft slab tableware, mastering hand building is a lifelong pursuit. In Mastering Hand Building, Sunshine Cobb covers all the foundational skills, with lessons for constructing both simple and complex forms. You'll also find a variety of next-level techniques and tips: designing templates and replicating pieces, lidded vessels, using molds, a variety of decorative techniques, and other avenues of exploration are all inside. Artist features and inspirational galleries include work from today's top working artists, such as Bryan Hopkins, Lindsay Oesterritter, Liz Zlot Summerfield, Bandana Pottery, Shoko Teruyama, Courtney Martin, Sam Chung, Deborah Schwartzkopf, and many more.
About the Author
Sunshine is a full-time studio artist who specializes in handmade functional pottery, she frequently travels the country as an invited lecturing and demonstrating artist. Her work has drawn both critical praise for its whimsical rustic style and national and international commercial success. Utilizing traditional techniques, her work embodies the importance of hand-made pottery in an era of disposability, while representing a new model of a functional potter in the modern era. Educated at California State University of Sacramento with a BA in Studio Arts and an MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University, Sunshine is the recipient of several esteemed honors in the field including serving as a long-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT from 2012-2014 and named as 2013's Emerging Artist by both the National Council of Education and Ceramics Monthly. Sunshine recently authored a book "Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coil and More"(Voyageur Press, Feb 2018)
