BEGINNING TO THROW ON THE POTTER'S WHEEL; ADVANCED THROWING; FORM AND FUNCTION; MAKING MARKS

摘要

Anyone who is familiar with Robin Hopper's stimulating and informative books will enjoy watching this master potter demonstrating many of the techniques described. Now Hopper has produced an outstanding series of video workshops in a high-quality DVD format that illuminate and expand upon his written words. Working methods accumulated during more than forty years as a production potter are presented in an extremely clear, logical and straightforward way. The first film, Beginning to Throw on the Potter's Wheel, provides a comprehensive introduction that runs for sixty minutes and features all the essentials from clay preparation, centring, throwing and trimming a number of basic forms, to throwing exercises. The next programme, Advanced Throwing, develops naturally from this practice throughout another sixty minute film showing techniques for making large pieces by adding coils, slabs or further thrown sections to extend and/or alter them in various ways.