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This book will give ceramicists wishing to tackle this challenging areaa broad insight into the problems involved, and offers practical adviceand pointers to enable you to successfully incorporate clay with lightand water in order to produce beautiful and creative pieces. Combining an attractive design in clay with the technicalities ofelectricity or pumps is actually quite difficult, and this handbookexplains and simplifies things for the beginner, identifying theproblems and offering solutions and advice. How to incorporateessential electric elements is obviously crucial to lighting andfountains, and when combined with clay has the added problem of havingto design and source all the elements separately to be combined afterfiring. The book focuses mainly on lighting, and through the work ofmany international artists, showcases a broad variety of pieces toinspire the reader. Chapters on making lights from start to finish,fountains and electrical information help to illuminate the process ofcombining clay with both light and water, showing that work can be madein exciting and innovative ways to include these aspects. This bookaims to open up the world of lighting to creative and inspiring ceramicartists.
