Author: Francesca Stone Publisher: Page Street Publishing ISBN: 1645671518 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 457
Book Description
Planters, Vases, Dishes and More, Without a Pottery Studio! You’ll be amazed by what you can create with polymer and air-dry clay. These affordable, easy-to-find clays present endless possibilities for artisan-quality home decor and gifts. Francesca Stone, creator of the decor blog Fall For DIY, presents simple step-by-step techniques for shaping and decorating clay with just a few household tools. All final pieces can be air-dried or baked in a standard home oven. Featuring a gorgeous, modern palette of natural colors, these projects are deceptively easy and effortlessly chic. Personalize your home with practical and beautiful items like the Terra-Cotta Jewelry Dish, Hanging Herb Garden Planter and Salt-and-Pepper Pinch Pot. Get creative with color and geometric shapes in home accents such as the Color-Block Photo Holder and Abstract Floral Block Platter. This book is the perfect primer to start making beautiful clay pieces at home and get that handmade ceramic look without the expenses and challenges of traditional pottery.
Author: Fay De Winter Publisher: Lark Books (NC) ISBN: 9781454710332 Category : CRAFTS & HOBBIES Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"Delve into the world of air-dry clay crafting with 20 beautiful easy-to-make projects that are suitable for all skill levels. Air-dry clay looks, feels, and performs like traditional clay, but requires no kiln time. You can create professional-looking ceramics in your own kitchen without the need for a kiln."--Back cover.
Author: Radka Hostasova Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc ISBN: 164403252X Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 131
Book Description
No Kiln? No Problem! Learn to make beautifully textured home décor accents with inexpensive air-dry clay! The process is easy, and the results are surprisingly stylish when you follow the tips, advice, and instruction from author and clay artist-designer Radka Hostasova. Aimed at absolute beginners—this book starts with an overview of the tools and materials needed to produce the best results. A comprehensive "Getting Started" chapter teaches essential home pottery techniques such as rolling slab, coiling, sculpting, and pinching. Also included are creative ideas for adding color with acrylic paint, watercolor, and metallics. At the book's heart are a range of beautiful projects, including trinket bowls, napkin rings, wall hangings, coasters, and others. Each lesson comes with a detailed reference photograph and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. Roll, coil, sculpt and carve air-dry clay to create beautiful projects Make modern and stylish projects such as coasters, trinket dishes, home décor accents, kid's projects, and more Use easy home pottery as a mode of relaxation and stress relief
Author: Annie C Claire Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
With polymer and air-dry clay, the possibilities are endless. These readily available, inexpensive clays offer countless options for artisan caliber gifts and home decor. Easy Homemade Pottery demonstrates easy step-by-step method for molding and adoring clay with only few common tools. All complete items can either be air-dried or cooked in a a regular home oven. These designs are deceptively simple and flow fluidly, with a lovely Morden palette of natural hues. Get started and start creating attractive and useful product to add personality to your home.
Author: Emi Fukushima Publisher: Design Originals ISBN: 9781574212297 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Soft, light air-dry clay is the perfect material for everyone from grade school crafters to professional sculptors. Here is everything you need to know. Learn the basics of working with clay. Develop your skills and know-how. Sculpt amazing designs to give as gifts. Create functional art for practical uses. You will discover amazing abilities you may not have realized you possessed. Plus, it's perfect for any age, so you can get the kids involved. Clay art is a wonderful rainy-day activity that entertains the whole family! Try creating with hearty clay. It is an easily worked material that doesn't require heat to cure. It's easy to work with on small projects. For bigger projects, this book contains advice on the simple steps you can take to ensure that your clay doesn't dry out. Coloring clay is another way to add pizazz to your work. Hearty clay provides a color clay scale that will give you perfect outcomes every time you mix and blend. The results of your efforts will pay off in beautiful, colorful forms. Your clay can be rolled in a pasta maker, torn, or cut. Use decorative scissors for an additional design element. Hand-rolling and stamping are great options as well. Punch, press, or emboss amusing shapes into clay. Co-authors Donna Kato, Emi Fukushima, and Ting-Yao Chen bring an unmatched pool of knowledge to you. They'll inspire you with their many ideas, including: *Cards: shape unique sentimental expressions *Blended Vessels: mold pencil holders and more *Dolls: fashion intricate and endearing figures *Florals: encourage fabulous flowers to bloom *Blended Masks: decorate intriguing elements of home decor *Containers: fabricate trinket boxes, bowls, and more. The only limit for what you can create is your own imagination!
Author: Cory Doctorow Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0765329107 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
Book Description
From the two defining personalities of post-cyberpunk SF, a brilliant collaboration to rival 1987's The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Author: DK Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1465497978 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Discover how to develop your pottery design skills and bring your ideas to life from start to finish. Covering every technique from throwing pottery to firing, glazing to sgraffito, this pottery book is perfect for both hand-building beginners and potting pros. Step-by-step photographs - some from the potter's perspective - show you exactly where to place your hands when throwing so you can master every technique you need to know. Plus, expert tips help you rescue your pots when things go wrong. The next in the popular Artist's Techniques series, Complete Pottery is the ideal companion for pottery classes of any level, or a go-to guide and inspiration for the more experienced potter looking to expand their repertoire and perfect new skills. With contemporary design and ideas, Complete Pottery Techniques enables the modern maker to unleash their creativity.
Author: Noriko Kawaguchi Publisher: Quarry Books ISBN: 9781589235724 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides complete instruction for creating stunning life-like flowers in clay as well as ideas for creating beautiful and long-lasting floral arrangements. 22 unique flower and arrangement projects are divided into seasonal sections, Spring, Autumn, Winter, and Summer, followed by themed projects including bouquets and accessories. The book shows beautiful photography of each arrangement and then offers complete, photographic, step-by-step instruction for each. The amazing projects are full of intricate details and provide both inspiration for polymer clay and mixed-media artists as well as complete instruction.
Author: Lucy Davidson Publisher: Leaping Hare Press ISBN: 0711257442 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
In Conscious Crafts: Pottery, maker Lucy Davidson reveals the meditative nature of working with clay and its wellbeing benefits for slowing down, creativity and mindfulness. Making is mindfulness made practical, and pottery is a popular meditative craft. Drawing on the traditions of hand making, Lucy has created 20 modern makes with air dry and polymer clay – all without the need for a wheel or kiln: imperfect pots; coasters; necklace beads; abstract earrings; terrazzo-style bracelets; bird brooches; pinch pot tea holders; light pull; incense holder; botanical & feather wall hangings; festive decorations; potted herb markers; clay 'leaf' bowls; plant hanger pots; indoor planters; miniature bunting; serving dishes; and seaside vases. She shares the basic techniques to pottery and shows how these can be explored and personalized for different projects, as well as making your own clay and memories. Clean photography, contemporary illustration and heart-affirming text are beautifully mixed together to celebrate art of making for a handmade future. Packed with inspiring ideas and practical guidance, Conscious Crafts: Pottery gives you the raw skills to get started with this fulfilling craft, and shows how the pottery experience and the satisfaction of creating your own unique makes can create happiness. The Conscious Crafts series places mindfulness and well-being at the heart of making. Picking out proven meditative crafts and bespoke authors, these practical, contemporary guides are an inviting introduction to reconnecting head, heart, and hands. Also available from the series: Conscious Crafts: Quilting/Knitting/Whittling.
Author: Ez Productions Publisher: Ez Productions ISBN: Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 30
Book Description
Crafters of all ages will love these 3 great clay art projects, which will make charming keepsakes and unique gifts! This book is designed for kids, beginning artists and arts-and-crafts enthusiasts who are interested in experiencing fun hands-on mediums. You can use (for all of the projects) kid-friendly, no-kiln clay (like modeling clay, air-dry clay, polymer clay, etc), so they are perfect for home and classroom. “Squishy, colorful, and infinitely shapable, modeling clay just might be the most versatile art material for kids”. Teachers, parents, and kids will adore this funny and instructive book for sculpting clay. This kids and beginner's modeling book is perfect for a rainy day or art class project, and will help foster and encourage creativity in your children or students! Would you like a modern and simple approach to sculpture art? Polymer clay and other no-kiln clay would the perfect choice for beginners and crafting enthusiasts. The popular Ezra Productions with their new style of clay projects features a growing list of books that share modeling projects, including all kinds of Fantasy Figures. Each book contains, clear step-by-step photographs of the process, as well as the finished figures. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, they are enriching for a range of ages and skill levels. When creating with clay, kids are introduced to a wide range of cognitive and manual skills: they’ll work three-dimensionally make figurative models use their imagination in making projects; and design with color develop finger flexibility and motor skills. cultivate the ability to appreciate colors, shapes, and patterns. (Grand) Parents and teachers will also appreciate this fun approach to learning, and will have a wonderful time helping kids develop their creative natures. Click “Look Inside” to see if the book is the correct fit for You! This is book 1: Modeling Polymer and AIR-DRY Clay for kids and beginners, A Step-By-Step Instructional Guide to create a Ninja, a Wizard and a Axe Fighter. Book 2 of this series contains the Instructions on how to model a Bowman, a Queen and a Knight. What age is the book good for? -The book is suitable for children, ages 5-13. Reading-age kids can work independently while younger ones can enjoy it as a bonding family activity. Important notice: This book has Easy-to-follow directions for every step of the crafting process for these 3 great sculpting clay projects. These step-by-step instructions feature full-color illustrations only and it has no text at all! There is NO tools or detailed information on techniques, baking, and glazing in this guide. And there’s no need to buy a clay sculpting tools set, you can use your hands and everyday items you already have lying around the house! All projects can be made in your clay of choosing like: Fimo polymer clay, Sculpey clay, Das modeling clay Crayola clay for kids and all other sorts of air drying clay’s. Have fun!
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