Opportunities in Arts and Crafts Careers by Elizabeth Gardner

By Elizabeth Gardner

Describes the educational, schooling, and talents wanted for a profession in structure, type layout, printmaking, photograph layout, jewellery making, and panorama layout.

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Chalks of any color can be used. Chalk drawings smudge easily. Applying a fixative to a chalk drawing destroys its unique quality, so chalk drawings are best kept under glass. Ink also serves as a drawing medium. Many artists prefer India ink, which is a deep black. If desired, they thin India ink to secure shades of gray. Some artists use colored inks for drawing, or watercolors, tempera, acrylics, or oil paints. With these latter fluids, the question of whether a work is a drawing or a painting remains a moot point.

As the disc revolves, the ceramist presses the ball of clay inward. The pressure of the ceramist's hands causes the clay to rise. When the clay rises, the ceramist presses down the center with a thumb and repeats the process until the object becomes symmetrical and smooth, a condition called centered. When the clay reaches this state, the ceramist again puts a thumb in the center and again presses down. Using the fingers of one hand in the center hole and those of the other to support the outside wall, the ceramist draws the clay outward until the base reaches the diameter desired.

He brought them home to his wife, Nampeyo. Nampeyo studied the shapes, designs, and colors of the pieces and experimented making ceramics with the same materials her ancestors had used. In time she created ceramics that are valued highly. Thus an old art was revived. What Ceramists Do Clay comes in a variety of colorswhite, ivory, yellow, gray, red, blue, and blackand is found along the banks of streams and rivers, where water has deposited it. Ceramists buy clay that is cleansed of pebbles and grit and mixed with other ingredients in the proper proportions to make earthenware, stoneware, or porcelain, the three kinds of clay bodies, or they make mixes themselves.

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