Art Techniques & Activities, Pottery & Modelmaking
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Overview
Create a world of fun and enchantment with polymer clay!
You can transform a batch of colorful polymer clay into a fantasy world right out of your imagination. You'll find basic techniques for sculpting 10 easy shapes that can be used to create dozens of different creatures, plus details for faces, eyes, noses, ears, mouths, hands, paws and feet.
You'll learn how to shape 30 detailed and colorful fantasy characters in all, including:
- Dragons and sea serpents
- Goblins and fairies
- Pigs and rabbits
- Birds and horses
- Ghosts, snakes, teddy bears and more!
Provides an introduction to polymer clay and instructions for creating basic shapes and using them to make the characters that appear in the accompanying story, "The Magic of Storyclay."
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 3 Up-This attractive book shows how to create 30 characters out of polymer clay. A "Note to Grown-Ups" gives tips and reminders, including the fact that adult supervision is needed. Although this supervision is most important in the baking step that hardens the clay, many of the projects will require patience and detailed work that may be beyond younger sculptors. Several pages give helpful hints for working with the medium and list supplies. The color wheel and basic shapes are treated with the same whimsy as the projects. The figures all stem from the basics taught at the beginning, and range from a simple pig made from several balls squished together to a complex dragon with multicolored scales. Each step is explained and captured in a clear, color photograph. The amount of clay needed and finished sizes are not given, but the pictures should be enough for most modelers to figure it out. An appealing how-to.-Genevieve Gallagher, Orange County Public Library, VA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.Book Details
Published
February 24, 2003
Publisher
North Light Books
Pages
64
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781581802863