This book is a comprehensive beginner's guide to working with polymer clay. Use a simple flower pattern to create covered drawer handles. Work a little magic on black clay and it will resemble antique bronze.
Polymer Clay (Weekend Crafter) (Lark Kids' Crafts S.)
by Irene Semanchuk Dean
Polymer clay is the most interesting new craft material to appear in the last 30 years. And now it has developed way beyond flowery beads and bubble gum-pink napkin rings! This introduction by a first-rate authority covers the basics - buying polymer clay, blending and baking it - as well as the beautiful canework that has dominated the craft up til now. But the best part of the book - the part that will appeal even to jaded polymer artists - is the emphasis on the new techniques being used toda...
The Clay Lover's Guide to Making Molds (Lark Ceramics Book)
by Peirce Clayton
A complete practical guide to creating and using plaster moulds in clay work. The author covers the basics of setting up a workshop area, selecting and working with the materials, and works through a series of specific projects, from simple one-piece press pieces, to multi-piece moulds for use with liquid clay slip.
Three Year Planner 2020-2022 (36 Months Calendar Academic Agenda Planner with Holiday, 3 Year Monthly Planner 2020-2022, #8)
by M H Angelica
Inspired by radical Italian designer Enzo Mari, this practical book with step-by-step DIY projects for hand built, beautiful furniture is a tribute to his simple ideas that challenged the consumerism of the furniture industry. Many interpreted Enzo Mari’s book Autoprogettazione? as a manifesto of nostalgic longing for a pre-capitalist society where people built what they needed themselves, but Mari’s goal wasn’t to make people cease consuming. Mari wanted people to consider the more basic aspec...
Awestruck by the sight of a Grinling Gibbons carving in a London church, David Esterly chose to dedicate his life to the art its physical control, intricate beauty and intellectual demands. Forty years later, he is the foremost practitioner of Gibbons's forgotten technique, which revolutionised ornamental sculpture in the late 1600s. After a fire at Hampton Court Palace in 1986 destroyed much of Gibbons's masterpiece, the job fell to David Esterly to restore his idols work to its former glory. I...